Students celebrate literacy together

By Cali O'Hare, managing editor, cohare@pinedaleroundup.com
Posted 5/25/23

High school students performed for small groups of elementary students during the festivities in “read aloud” sessions. They played literacy games together and participated in other activities while enjoying a pen pal meet and greet, creating customized bookmark gifts and winning free books through giveaways — all organized by high school students taught by Faith Howard and Whitney Sorenson.

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PINEDALE — Pinedale Elementary School (PES) students celebrated literacy with a book festival held Wednesday, May 24, and hosted by freshmen at Pinedale High School (PHS).

Faith Howard, literacy specialist at PHS and Skyline Academy, explained the freshmen undertook a project-based learning exercise in early May by planning the book festival for the elementary school students. Howard and the PHS students partnered with freshman English teacher Whitney Sorenson and the Sublette County Library in Pinedale on the month-long project.

Their goal was for Wednesday’s event to help foster positivity around literacy with their younger peers in the fourth and fifth grades.

High school students performed for small groups of elementary students during the festivities in “read aloud” sessions. They played literacy games together and participated in other activities while enjoying a pen pal meet and greet, creating customized bookmark gifts and winning free books through giveaways — all organized by  high school students taught by Howard and Sorenson.