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Jennifer Stout, 16, caps off a tower of blocks to spell 'B.U.I.L.D.' The acronym was used by Debbie Tower, Tommie Barfield Elementary School's reading coach, to talk to parents about practices that help connect home with school. The acronym stands for 'Be positive. Unplug the TV. Increase time for Reading. Learn new ways to practice at home. Decide to partner with your school.' Parents, elementary school students and high school students enjoyed an evening about reading together Tuesday at TBE.

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Jennifer Stout, 16, caps off a tower of blocks to spell "B.U.I.L.D." The acronym was used by Debbie Tower, Tommie Barfield Elementary School's reading coach, to talk to parents about practices that help connect home with school. The acronym stands for "Be positive. Unplug the TV. Increase time for Reading. Learn new ways to practice at home. Decide to partner with your school." Parents, elementary school students and high school students enjoyed an evening about reading together Tuesday at TBE.

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  • Jennifer Stout, 16, caps off a tower of blocks to spell 'B.U.I.L.D.' The acronym was used by Debbie Tower, Tommie Barfield Elementary School's reading coach, to talk to parents about practices that help connect home with school. The acronym stands for 'Be positive. Unplug the TV. Increase time for Reading. Learn new ways to practice at home. Decide to partner with your school.' Parents, elementary school students and high school students enjoyed an evening about reading together Tuesday at TBE.
  • Lazaro Galicia, 18, plays the wolf in the 'Big Bad Wolf Goes to Read,' a play put on by Lely High School students and Tommie Barfield Elementary School students for parents Tuesday at TBE. The evening was an opportunity for parents to become more involved in their children's education.
  • Haley Cartwright, 5, and Tyler Chute, 5, sing about piglets at Tommie Barfield Elementary School Tuesday evening. Building Better Readers Night at the school allowed elementary school students, Lely High School students and parents to have fun and read together.
  • Victoria Novotny, 6, tells the 'Big Bad Wolf,' Lazaro Galicia, 18, that he needs to learn to read. The two were among about 50 Tommie Barfield Elementary School students and Lely High School students who put on a play Tuesday night for parents at TBE.
  • Brian Kocak, 9, plays a 'little piggy' and shows he can read better than the 'Big Bad Wolf.' Lely High School students Margaux Meurgue and Nikki Popoff played part in a performance with elementary school students Tuesday night called 'The Big Bad Wolf Goes to Read.'

Tommie Barfield Elementary students and Lely High School students put on a play based on the The Three Little Pigs story but with a twist that encourages reading. Parents had the opportunity to enjoy watching the performance after they learned a program called 'B.U.I.L.D' from Debbie Cooper, a reading coach at the school, Tuesday night. While elementary and high school students practiced the play, 'The Big Bad Wolf Goes to Read,' parents attended sessions on how to encourage better reading and how to get involved in their children's education. The evening was called 'Building Better Readers Night.'

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