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What difference can early literacy success for young readers make in the life of a community? These books, in combination with the FUNDations program, would be used to implement researched based and documented models that have demonstrated literacy success. Low-income students are associated with parents having poor literacy skills. They are less likely to receive early literacy training at home or to be enrolled in a preschool program, which increases the risk of school failure. Research reveals that early reading intervention with struggling readers closes the reading gap by the time students begin middle school. Higher literacy rates increase the opportunity for continuing education, better jobs, more productive citizens and a continuation of literacy for the next generation. “Student’s reading achievement has been demonstrated to correlate with success in school and the amount of independent reading they do” (Greaney 1980; Anderson, Fielding and Wilson 1988). “This affirms the predictability of a success cycle: we become more proficient at what we practice” (Cullinan 1992). As a Title 1 school Whitman is financially at a disadvantage with her more affluent peers. Without this grant, equity and success will remain only a dream and not a reality. Combining Balanced Literacy through an equity lens and reading remediation will provide a synergistic outcome of proven success in the literacy achievement. The outcome for our communities will be better educated, better resourced, increased opportunities, success and greater equity, for struggling readers and the next generation of readers.

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What difference can early literacy success for young readers make in the life of a community? These books, in combination with the FUNDations program, would be used to implement researched based and documented models that have demonstrated literacy success. Low-income students are associated with parents having poor literacy skills. They are less likely to receive early literacy training at home or to be enrolled in a preschool program, which increases the risk of school failure. Research reveals that early reading intervention with struggling readers closes the reading gap by the time students begin middle school. Higher literacy rates increase the opportunity for continuing education, better jobs, more productive citizens and a continuation of literacy for the next generation. “Student’s reading achievement has been demonstrated to correlate with success in school and the amount of independent reading they do” (Greaney 1980; Anderson, Fielding and Wilson 1988). “This affirms the predictability of a success cycle: we become more proficient at what we practice” (Cullinan 1992). As a Title 1 school Whitman is financially at a disadvantage with her more affluent peers. Without this grant, equity and success will remain only a dream and not a reality. Combining Balanced Literacy through an equity lens and reading remediation will provide a synergistic outcome of proven success in the literacy achievement. The outcome for our communities will be better educated, better resourced, increased opportunities, success and greater equity, for struggling readers and the next generation of readers.

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