Mississippi's flawed application and underdeveloped plans to provide preschool for all children is partly to blame for why the state's
youngest learners were bypassed once
again for federal funds that could have provided a boost to early education, a review found.
To get
young English language
learners (ELLs) started, teachers assign writing projects such as journals, narratives, letters, plays, poems, reports, instructions, lab reports, book reports, persuasive essays, and other genres that students will practice
again in the grades to come.