Welcome Parents, Students, Interested Web-Surfers, This web site is a new tool to communicate what's happening in the Middle School Reading classes at SCCS. What is consistently emphasized,(ask the students how often we work with the key vocabulary words!)are knowing and using strategies to help understand what we're reading. The reading materials do vary, currently some of us are just beginning Maniac Magee written by Jerry Spinelli. This story features a troubled boy who desperately needs a family and home, yet he guides a community to lessen racial hatred. Using the strategies good readers use to understand what they read, the story provides powerful character education. Some of the reading classes are reading the seasonally correct Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac. Again, using the strategies of questioning, clarifying, visualizing, summarizing and others help understand and enjoy a good scary story. All of the reading classes are using the Soar to Success program materials to reinforce the strategies. This web site will continue to showcase what we read and why.