Burlington
Reading Hour
Reading skills are a crucial part of academic and professional success.
Reading enriches the
MIND, HEART, and SOUL.
Sign up for Burlington Reading Hour to help your learners develop a solid reading habit and acquire the skills they need to deal with challenging texts.
Burlington Reading Hour helps turn students into active meaning-makers and teaches them the strategies one should employ to become a good reader.
Critical
Evaluation
Comparison
& Contrast
Text
Analysis
Identifying
Main Ideas
Making Connections
Burlington Reading Hour integrates 21st century skills into the reading syllabus by focusing on:
Creativity
Communication
Critical
Thinking
Collaboration
When you enrol in the Burlington Reading Hour program, you get:
carefully graded digital readers
Burlington Graded Readers
Beautiful, full-colour
illustrations
Cross-curricular activities
Book report format
Character sketches help learners to better understand and relate to the characters in the story
Teacher
materials
Access to complementary digital resources
A wide range of pre-and
post-reading activities
Context-setting sections help learners to understand the socio-cultural environment of the text
Lexical focus to
build vocabulary
Teacher's section includes a plot summary and a list of main themes and characters
About the Author sections help learners find out about the author and how and when the work was written
Cross-curricular projects and activities link events in the story to the real world and promote holistic learning, creativity, and thinking skills