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W-M partners with reading coach to help stop 'summer slide'

WAKEFIELD - As summer quickly approaches, the Wakefield-Marenisco School District has partnered with its reading coach, Jennifer Burla, to work to provide ways to prevent "summer slide" for students.

"A great deal of what a child learns during the school year can be forgotten over summer break if nothing is done to try to prevent it," said Jason Gustafson, a teacher at Wakefield-Marenisco. "Research found that simply giving students access to self-selected, appropriately leveled books to read over the summer was as effective as any other program to ease or eliminate summer reading loss. As...