Leveled Literacy Intervention
Local governments can invest in this strategy using State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).
- This strategy can help address educational disparities. The U.S. Department of Treasury has indicated that strategies that help achieve this outcome are eligible for the use of Fiscal Recovery Funds.
- Investments in this strategy are SLFRF-eligible as long as they are made in qualified census tracts or are designed to assist populations or communities disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Program overview
- Supplementary, small-group activity designed to help struggling readers reach grade-level competency
- Focuses on phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and other literacy skills
- Provides texts with progressive difficulty and systematic lesson plans matched to students’ abilities
- Strategies
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Literacy curricula and interventions
- Cost per Participant
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Approximately $3,000 per classroom set of materials
- Positive effects on general reading achievement
- Potentially positive effects on reading fluency
- Improved general reading achievement by an average of 11 percentile
- Improved reading fluency by an average of 11 percentile points
- Note: This content is under review
- Start the leveled literacy intervention as early as possible during the school year to provide the full 14 weeks of education.
- Frequent trainings and integration of trainers with school administration help maintain program fidelity.
- Program should be administered 30-45 minutes per day, 5 days per week, with the recommended group size.
- Without appropriate staffing and small group approach, participants will not reap the full benefits of the program.