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APSU Literature Department continues grant-funded reading program for local middle schools

June 23, 2009 | Print This Post

 

Austin Peay State University LogoFor a second consecutive year, the Austin Peay State University Department of Languages and Literature has received a grant to help middle school students improve their reading.

The grant from the Student Academic Success Initiative will help APSU to continue the Readers 2 Leaders, a program started in 2008 in which APSU collaborates with local middle schools to engage students in the “shared inquiry” method of reading literature, said Dr. Tim Winters, professor of classics at APSU.

“The goal is to deepen the understanding of a text for the middle school student, helping that person to become a more astute reader,” he said. «Read the rest of this article»

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