This report presents the details of a year-long study conducted by Research for Action of the impact and implementation of the Children's Literacy Initiative (CLI) Pre-K Intervention. Thirty-five district-operated and community-based Pre-K programs from Broward County Public Schools and the Early Learning Coalition of Broward County were enrolled…

This discussion advocates implementing literacy portraiture within school-based literacy curriculum when working with culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Through this approach, practitioners can attend to the learner, focus on their voice, and listen for their literacy story to create portraits of their learners from holistic,…

Content literacy is a crucial skill that enables students to read, comprehend, and use subject-specific information across various academic disciplines. This Spotlight will help readers explore how one district is integrating writing with rich content; analyze research on content-focused instruction; learn tips for combining screen and printed…

Literacy is an essential component of any elementary-school classroom. To address shifting understandings of literacy and how to teach it, Alberta has developed a new language-arts curriculum. This curriculum, however, was developed in a context where schools have a long history of not serving Indigenous children well, including not meeting their…

The Christian Church has always considered the Bible to be the Word of God, a collection of ancient documents that were inspired by God and communicate the teachings of God for His people. While it is essential for Christians to understand the truths contained therein, it has been well documented that biblical literacy among Christians in America…

This study aims to describe: 1) students' perceptions of the efforts that must be made to improve literacy and numeracy competencies and 2) significant differences regarding the efforts that must be made to improve literacy and numeracy competencies when viewed from gender and numeracy differences-school status. The descriptive approach was…

This transcendental phenomenological study, grounded in Bandura's self-efficacy theory (1997), investigates K-4 specialized literacy professionals' (SLPs) experiences and perceptions of implementing Response to Intervention (RTI) within a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework. Data collected from interviews and self-reported journal…

Background: Despite large-scale interventions aimed at developing literacy skills, children's reading competence levels in South Africa continue to remain an area of concern. In addition, the need to prepare learners for the increased demands of a fast-changing world of learning and working is gaining attention in educational policy and practice.…

The implementation of the education process is currently a new challenge for all the education community due to the recovery phase after the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this research is to describe the implementation of an Merdeka Curriculum at the school level as an effort to improve the quality of education after the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

This study uses implementation fidelity data from PreK to 1st grade in the Boston Public Schools (BPS) to measure instructional alignment and examine whether stronger alignment is associated with sustained benefits of BPS PreK on children's language, literacy, and math skills through first grade. The study includes N = 498 students (mean age =…

This study describes the initial implementation of the writing component of the "Write to Read" ("W2R") literacy intervention in eight low-SES (socio-economically disadvantaged) elementary-level urban schools. Through customised onsite professional development provided by coaches, the writing component sought to build teachers'…

This article describes the process whereby MacEwan University modified an existing EAP course, consisting of broad reading and writing topics, into an ESP course with a more targeted focus on relevant nursing-related themes to better serve the unique literacy needs of internationally educated nurses (IENs). Differing from the existing EAP course,…

Teachers play a significant role in literacy development. They are responsible for using different approaches to develop literacy skills among learners whose mother tongue is not the same as the language of learning and teaching in schools. This article aims to explore strategies teachers use to develop literacy skills among English First…

Teachers in the US are increasingly required to use scripted curricula. Such instructional materials often reflect the overwhelming whiteness of the publishing industry through a lack of representation of authors and protagonists outside of white, middle-class normative characters. Implementation of such curricula stands in direct contrast to…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the "Wit and Wisdom" ("WW") curriculum's impact on District A's student literacy in Tennessee, compare its effectiveness with similar districts, and analyze teacher perceptions, including variations in curriculum favorability, self-efficacy, and implementation. Spanning the academic…