OTIS WILSON CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION

The tackling literacy program was implemented to create an effective means for imporving the literacy skill of elementary school students who continued to struggle with developing the basic and advanced reading skills needed to excel in school and life. The program also provides a means to expose youth to safe and creative alternatives to spending their time in order to deter them from engaging in violent activities. The fundamental core components of litearcy skill building, which indclude: phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and assesment/evaluation, are all addressed in this program. In order to properly monitor the growth of stundent participants, three separate assessments were given during the course of the program. For the mid-point assesment, there was an average growth of 60% among all participants with respect to being able to read vocabulary work lists from the first game. By the end, all students demonstrated a measure of growth in their overall reading ability.

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