This competitive grant advances literacy skills through the use of evidence-based practices, activities and interventions, including pre-literacy skills, reading, and writing. The grant serves children from birth through grade twelve, with an emphasis on disadvantaged children, including children living in poverty, English learners, and children with disabilities.
English Learner Roadmap to achieve bilingual and biliterate proficiency for learners.
Reading intervention for all learners (including English learners, students in dual language programs, and students with disabilities, dyslexia and/or phonological processing challenges).
Whole child approach to literacy education; literacy as equity, executive functions, research informed best practices for reading instruction, and a process for intensive intervention.
Provide professional learning opportunities for sites that received LCRS funds for Literacy Coaches, Reading Specialists, and Interventionists.
Curated resources, and a repository of high-quality online instructional materials
Implementation and improvement of Title III programs.
