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E.R. schools emphasize literacy skills and distinguish the sounds in words. “The science of reading tells Danielle Schneider brings us that you can’t read or decode toy blocks printed with letters words until you can hear them, to kindergarten classes in the so the oral language comes East Rockaway Union Free first,” Assistant SuperintenSchool District, aiming to tar- dent Sean Murray explained. get a specific oral and literacy “So we brought in a phonemic skill. aw a r e n e s s p r o “ We n e e d t o gram that was train their auditory designed specificalprocessors to be ly to address the able to hear and deficit we found in pick up on the indiour (testing) data.” vidual sounds in Kallen McNoble, words, and take a second-grade them apart,” Schteacher at Centre neider, the district’s Avenue Elementaliteracy coach, said ry School, said she of the students. sees the improve“It’s fun, fast-paced ment in the former and they use their kindergartners hands to chop (the w h o h ave b e e n blocks) and to put through the prot h i n g s t o g e t h e r. DANIEllE gram. T h e y f e e l l i k e SchNEIDER “I’ve also seen they’re playing a Literacy coach my students get game, like they’re super excited not really lear nabout the books ing.” that we’re reading,” McNoble Three years ago, the district said, “and they want to go to implemented a literacy coach- the library now and find the ing program to improve read- next book.” ing and writing in students The literacy coaching initiafrom kindergarten through tive was introduced as part of a sixth grade. One part of the broader effort to provide teachpro g ram targets phonemic Continued on page 10 awareness, the ability to hear
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A historic nomination for the library Gov. Kathy Hochul approved the nomination of the Lynbrook Public Library for inclusion on the state and national registers of historic places. Story, Page 2.
Lynbrook residents voice concerns about dangerous speeding incidents By AINSlEY MARTINEZ amartinez@liherald.com
On March 26, Lynbrook resident Marisa Faranda reported that her husband parked near Lloyd Avenue, and when he opened his car door, another vehicle zoomed past and almost hit him. “This was right as children were being dropped off at schools in the area,” Faranda recounted. “(I’m) hoping the Lynbrook Police Department was in pursuit and cornered him.” The area Faranda mentioned is actually not under Lynbrook police jurisdiction, and is instead patrolled by the Nassau County Police Department. But Lynbrook Police Chief Brian Paladino said that one of his officers tried to pull
over a speeding white Jeep Cherokee, the same model and color that Faranda described, that afternoon, near the intersection of Durland Road and Dunn Place. The officer attempted to pursue the vehicle, but called off the chase for safety reasons. “We’re not going to have people get hurt, or ourselves get hurt, just for a traffic ticket,” Paladino said. To address growing concerns about speeding, Lynbrook police have implemented several initiatives, including deploying traffic data collectors, discreet cameras placed in areas identified as hot spots, where vehicles ignore the village’s 30-mile-per-hour speed limit. Continued on page 15
y teaching the building blocks of words, we can help students unlock the meaning of new words more easily.