KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT SIX. NEW AT SIX. THIS STORY IS SO NEAT. SECOND GRADERS IN WAUKEE WERE SURPRISED WITH THIS TODAY. IT’S A SPECIAL GIFT. A CAITLIN CLARK PICTURE BOOK THAT THEY’LL BE ABLE TO TAKE HOME.

In second grade, Jose Alvarez struggled to read. He had fallen behind early in school. His older brothers and mother are dyslexic, and the family feared that Jose might have a learning disability too.

More than 300 Mallett School students and staff paraded through Farmington dressed as their favorite book characters, celebrating over two decades of a cherished reading tradition.