[EDLING:503] Grant To Help Texas School District Improve Reading Skills

[Francis M. Hult]

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US Dept. of Education

December 22, 2004


Reading First Grant To Help Texas School District Improve Reading Skills


No Child Left Behind’s Reading First program provides grants to help
schools and districts improve children’s reading achievement through
scientifically proven methods of instruction. The following are excerpts
from a recent article in The Galveston County Daily News highlighting how
a local school district in Texas will use Reading First funds to improve
students’ reading skills:

"Low reading scores on state assessment tests have the La Marque
Independent School District changing the way elementary students are being
taught to read."

"The school district has been awarded a TEA Reading First Grant to start
an intensive reading program in kindergarten through third grade at
Highlands, Inter-City and Westlawn elementary schools and the Early
Childhood Learning Center. The program is designed to help improve
students’ reading skills and ultimately raise their state test scores.

"The grant will provide the schools with more than $780,000 the first
year. program that the schools are already using,’ said May Carol
Lieblong, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the
school district. ‘We will be hiring literacy coaches at every elementary
campus that will be working specifically with the teachers to coach them
on the instructional strategies that they need to use to teach reading.'"

The complete text of this article is available online at:

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=56fe614c71d62566