Helping Our Reading Students Excel


Book Drop Book DropClicker Competition

Left and Middle: Book Drop for Cryptid Hunters.
Right: Clicker Competition - winning classes get doughnuts!



Sponsor:
All Shoal River Teachers, Faculty and Staff

Mission:
HORSE is a daily 25 minute literacy period - Helping Our Reading Students Excel.

During this time we participate in research-based literacy strategies such as reading to improve comprehension, teacher read alouds to students from a school-wide book, and a variety of activities designed to promote reading.

Members: All Shoal River Students

Meetings/Practices: HORSE meets daily between 2nd and 3rd periods.


HORSE Selections Through the Years

2010-2011 (HORSE)
Double Dutch – Sharon M. Draper
The Mailbox – Audrey Shafer
Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C. S. Lewis
Teacher’s Choice of Novel from SRMS Approved List

HORSE Books

2009-2010 (HORSE)
Cryptid Hunters – Roland Smith
Airball: My Life in Briefs – Lisa Harkrader
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler –
E. L. Konigsburg
Teacher’s Choice of Novel

HORSE Books

2008-2009 (BIRD)
Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
Kingdom Keepers – Ridley Pearson
Running Out of Time – Margaret P. Haddix
Schooled – Gordon Korman

HORSE Books

2007-2008 (BIRD)
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie – Jordan Sonnenblick
Double Identity – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Anna Casey’s Place In the World – Adrian Fogelin
Black Storm Comin’ – Diane L. Wilson

HORSE Books

2006-2007 (BIRD)
Double Dutch – Sharon M. Draper
Cryptid Hunters – Roland Smith
The Teacher’s Funeral – Richard Peck
Hoot – Carl Hiaasen

HORSE Books

2005-2006 (BIRD)
Al Capone Does My Shirts – Gennifer Choldenko
Gregor the Overlander – Suzanne Collins
Once Upon a Marigold – Jean Ferris
Becoming Naomi Leon’ – Pam Munoz Ryan

HORSE Books