REMINDER:  If you are taking a quiz online at home, go to the HOMEWORK PAGE

for information on how to do  that. You CANNOT take a quiz without

parent/guardian supervision and a phone call to Mrs. Desmond. 

Quizzes taken without permission cannot be accepted.

Welcome Parents & Students

Mrs. Desmond's Reading Class Website

Thank you for visiting our class website. Please visit often to get the latest news and information on what is happening in our class. If you have any questions about our program please don't hesitate to contact me! I am looking forward to working with you and your student this year!  Be sure to check the homework tab to see when your independent reading books are due!

QUOTABLE QUOTES

Going to the library builds a kid's imagination. Books help them discover themselves and the world. Baltimore Oriole All-Star shortstop Mike Bordick

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library. Oprah Winfrey

We are the children of a technological age.  We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work.  Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books.  Reading them, however, has not changed.  Lawrence Clark Powell

Teenagers can discover the pleasures of reading and gain the power of knowledge by going to libraries. With that power, they will be invincible.  NASCAR driver Ward Burton, winner of the Daytona 500.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day.  And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.  Gillian Anderson