Local News
Worm your way into a book
(Note - For input on their start in reading and current trends, we contacted three members of the Muncy Library Board; Evelyn Derrick, William ‘Bill’ Ring and Diane Schneck). MUNCY - “Look,” was the first word I learned to read,” said Evelyn Derrick a retired English teacher from Muncy High School. Evelyn’s own elementary schooling occurred in her home town of Hughesville and as she described, “I was in Mrs. Helen Gideon’s class where the ‘look — say’ method was used instead of phonetics. Look Jane, see Spot, See Spot run, were the words accompanying the ...
