Georgia District Uses School Buses to Teach Students Sight Words
August 31, 2018
By: Marva Hinton
Source: Education Week
One of the largest school districts in Georgia is turning its bus drivers into teachers who command “rolling classrooms.”
The drivers are helping to teach elementary school students sight words through a new program that began this year in the Fulton County school district.
Sight words are words like “the” and “you,” words that you can’t easily sound out and young children are encouraged to memorize.
“What we want is to be considered a true part of the school system,” said Vickie Cross, the district’s director of transportation operations who came up with the idea.
The program aligns with the district’s goal that all 3rd graders be able to recognize 250 to 300 sight words and read on grade level.
“If you can’t read, you can’t succeed,” said Cross.