Ocean View School District
Where relationships and achievement matter!
Reading helps us grow
Studies show that reading for 30 minutes daily positively impacts a child's success at school.
More time reading books increases vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.1 A student who reads more than 30 minutes a day from kindergarten through high school will have read 250 times as many words as a student who reads less than 15 minutes a day: a 12-million-word divide that yields ~12,000 additional vocabulary words.2
OVSD Delivers
Recommendations: Book recommendations from kids for kids gets students excited to read. Student book recommendations have been highlighted in the "2022-23 School Year" tab.
Variety of Titles: Offering a multitude of books that satisfy individual interests allows students to spend more time reading while encouraging student agency.
Librarians in Ocean View: The knowledgeable and creative librarians have engaged with students to purchase new books for our libraries that they enjoy to build high quality book collections.
Looking for additional reading material?
OVSD students have access to online reading material
via the Tumble Books website.
1 Anderson, R., Wilson, P., & Fielding, L. (1988), Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school, Reading Research Quarterly, 23(3) 285-303; Cunningham, A.E., and Stanovich, K.E. (2001), What Reading Does for the Mind, Journal of Direct Instruction, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 137–149; and Moss, B., and Young, T. (2010), Creating Lifelong Readers through Independent Reading, International Reading Association, p. 9, et. seq.
2 Mason, J.M., Stahl, S. A. , Au, K. H. , & Herman, P. A. (2003). Reading: Children’s Developing Knowledge of Words. In J. Flood, D. Lapp, J. R. Squire, & J. M. Jensen (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts (2nd ed., pp. 914-930). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Renaissance Learning. (2016). What kids are reading: and how they grow. Wisconsin Rapids, WI.