Fourth graders at Kenmore Elementary proudly display a recent copy of Kid Scoop News. From left: Ava Keysor, Connor Petersen, Hannah Alexander, and Beau Hanson. Adley Jensen (sitting front). Photo by Terry Froseth, The Kenmare News.
Arianna Nygaard reads the latest Kid Scoop News. Photo by Cecile Wehrman, The Journal.
Connor Petersen and Ava Keysor, fourth graders at Kenmare Elementary, collaborate on activities in Kid Scoop News. Photo Terry Froseth, The Kenmare News.
Aims to boost literacy, cultivate newspaper habit
After several years of declining scores, only one third of fourth graders in North Dakota are proficient in reading. Seeing that stark slide prompted one local newspaper publisher to act by providing a newspaper kids can call their own.
Currently around 30,000 of the Kid Scoop News newspapers are being distributed to 70-80 schools in the western half…
