Developing Reading in a Pandemic Merci Dearwent

Developing Reading in a Pandemic

Merci Dearwent

In recent years, young students have been struggling to reach core reading benchmarks. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related quarantine, children have been falling even further behind. Research demonstrates not only that students are falling behind, but that there is a widening gap between early readers that this time away from school has only exacerbated.