"Author Stresses Perserverance"

 

BEDFORD – Students at Shawswick Elementary School are joining students from schools across the country this week in focusing on the importance of reading during a week that encompasses the birthday of popular children’s author Dr. Seuss.

     Shawswick fourth- and fifth-grade students marked the occasion Thursday by assembling in the school gymnasium to learn more about local author Pamela Horner, whose face is a familiar one.  In addition to having written two books, Horner teaches English at Shawswick Middle School.

Horner talked about what she wanted her young audience to game from the presentation.

     “There were a couple of things that I was interested in,” she said.  “No. 1, I wanted them to hopefully have an interest in writing.  Even if you get one kid to think, ‘Oh, I think I can do that,’ that’s so important.”

     “Other than that, it was the reading aspect.  If anyone can write something that will get a student’s attention, a child’s attention, and maybe get them interested – it doesn’t matter what genre, just as long as they’re readers – that’s so important.”

     A third element that Horner talked about was her interest in the students understanding the importance of perseverance. “That really was a big thing in my book,” Horner said.

 

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Roger Moon

Times Mail

Bedford, Indiana