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Funding from West Virginia University for early literacy programs will help students across the state who are learning how to read.
The West Virginia Public Education Collaborative, housed at WVU, is investing more than $260,000 in six new statewide literacy projects through its Sparking Early Literacy Growth program.
They include Building Literacy through Museum Engagement at the Huntington Children’s Museum, as well as research into Play-Based Strategies at the June Harless Center for Rural Educational Research and Development at Marshall University.
The projects are supported by the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the EQT Foundation.
Organizers hope the projects will build on improvements stemming from the Third Grade Success Act to support childhood literacy.
In the 2023-24 statewide English language arts assessment scores, 47 percent of West Virginia third graders scored at the reading proficiency level, a 7 percent improvement year to year.
