Reading to Older Kids in School, Part 1
Not everyone stops reading to children after they have learned to read for themselves. We know several secondary school teachers who regularly read aloud to students. One of them, Jimmy Leong, not only reads to his own classes, he has also read aloud to the whole school at assemblies and after the morning flag raising ceremony.
Jimmy Leong teaches English and literature, so it is not too surprising to hear that he is keen on reading aloud to his pupils. More surprising is the case of Nancy Yen who teaches mathematics at the same school as Jimmy. We’ll let Nancy tell how she got started after the idea was suggested in a course George taught about multiple intelligences:
