LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County College District launched a community-wide initiative to assist increase early childhood literacy charges within the Las Vegas valley.
CCSD, joined with Train For America Nevada, Unfold the Phrase Nevada, and the Lifting Literacy Liberation, launched the “Read With Me NV” at a information convention on Thursday, Oct. 9.
The aim of this system? To lift third-grade literacy proficiency to 64% by 2030.
In Clark County, solely about 2 in 5 third-grade college students learn at grade stage in the course of the 2024-2025 college 12 months, in line with New Smarter Balanced Evaluation Consortium (SBAC) scores.
“Children who don’t read on grade level by third grade are four times less likely to graduate high school, limiting their future opportunities and economic mobility,” a launch mentioned.
Knowledge reveals that third-grade literacy proficiency charges have risen up to now few years, from 32% in the course of the 2020-2021 college 12 months to 39% in the course of the 2022-2023 college 12 months to 44% final college 12 months.
The brand new marketing campaign goals to “rally parents, educators, and community members around the importance of early childhood literacy and the role everyone plays in helping children succeed academically and in life.”
On the marketing campaign’s web site, households, educators, and group members can take literacy pledges, together with methods they will become involved. The method of the marketing campaign focuses on research-based methods throughout each layer of the training system, the positioning mentioned.
The educator web page on the Learn With Me NV contains sources of various varieties, together with Nevada-specific sources, sources for bilingual and multilingual college students, and sources for struggling readers and readers with dyslexia.
The mother and father’ web page gives ideas for folks who need to enhance their kid’s literacy, together with studying collectively day by day, speaking with their baby, and extra sources for folks to discover.
