Sentences with phrase «strong literacy skills by»

The programs, created and funded by the legislature, support specific recommendations to ensure that all students have strong literacy skills by the end of third grade.

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Children who develop strong literacy skills in their native language are more readily able to acquire literacy in a second language according to published research by education expert and researcher Jill Fitzgerald in Journal of Reading Behavior.

«We know that strong literacy skills are the foundation for students to become lifelong learners and by equipping administrators and teachers with the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to develop a comprehensive literacy plan, we are helping them bring this to scale within their districts,» said Michael Haggen, Chief Academic Officer, Scholastic Education.

In 2009, teachers at the Urban Assembly Academy of Arts and Letters — a public school serving grades 6 — 8 in Brooklyn, New York, began the fact that the gap between children with strong literacy skills and those with weak skills widens year by year as curriculum becomes more demanding.

Smarty Ants puts all students in Grades PreK - 2 on the path to college and career literacy success by ensuring that every learner can build the strong foundational reading skills they need to transition from learning to read to reading to learn.