Learn more abou the Early Education for All Campaign >		Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success Strategies for improving children's language and literacy development, birth to age 9. With the release on June 10, 2010, of “Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success,” Strategies for Children, Inc., launched a 10-year campaign to ensure that all children in Massachusetts are proficient readers by the end of third grade, adding a renewed sense of urgency to our long-standing—and ongoing—campaign to ensure that all children have access to high-quality early education. Alarmed that 43% of Massachusetts third graders read below grade level, SFC commissioned nationally recognized literacy expert Nonie Lesaux to write the report. “There is a limited window of time in which to prevent reading difficulties and promote reading achievement,” Lesaux writes. “For most children, what happens (or doesn’t happen) from infancy through age 9 is critical.” Read the full report [PDF] Chart: A Developing Reader's Journey to Third Grade [PDF] Boston event program [PDF] Find out about third grade reading proficiency in your community. Read more research on on reading proficiency, NEWS COVERAGE Grade 3 students lagging on reading The Boston Globe Strengthening reading skills Radio Boston, WBUR-FM New steps needed to improve literacy in Mass. Ed Week Report finds state reading programs ineffective Metrowest Daily News Sounding alarm on childhood literacy The Lowell Sun Study shows many Massachusetts children reading below grade level The Republican Report: Lynn 3rd-graders lag in reading The Daily Item
		Special thanks to the Boston Foundation, the Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts  for their generous support of this work. For more information, contact Carolyn Lyons at clyons@strategiesforchildren.org or 617-330-7388

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