Nestled under the counter of Kristine Read’s Bay View Elementary School class, first-grader Henry Modrell quietly read aloud to himself Friday, then took his green, laminated cards with words on them such as “will” and “there” and quietly organized them.

One pile was words Henry had mastered. The other, words he still had to work on.

Then, he read himself another book.

Throughout the Burlington-Edison School District, students in kindergarten through third grade are doing similar exercises as part of the district’s new literacy curriculum from the American Reading Co.

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