How To Use Your Imagination

When Miss Jane led a discussion on the importance of reading during Read Across America Day at Island Avenue School Friday, Chloe Smith, a first grader in Tara Vitale's class, shot up her hand to say she uses her imagination when she reads. 

Miss Jane, the children's librarian at Scranton Memorial Library, wholeheartedly agreed. She noted that imagination is important when it comes to reading and problem solving. She noted that it's an important quality when it comes to doing your work. That's a lesson that Madison Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Scarice has been reinforcing with his staff, Miss Jane said. 

"He's been having meetings with everyone about how important imagination and problem solving is," Miss Jane told Chloe's classmates. 

As it turns out, Chloe is something of an expert on imagination, having written a book about it for her first grade class during writer's workshop. When Chloe's teacher told Miss Jane that, Chloe was invited to read her book in front of the whole class, which she did. And then Miss Jane and the teacher talked about making Chloe's book available at the local public library, along with her classmates. 

"Think about something you have never seen before," Chloe says in her book. "Fall into what you've never seen before."