OST Program Strategies to Promote Literacy Skill-Building

By Kathryn A. Wheeler, Georgia Hall, & Neil Naftzger

Research indicates that struggling readers are more likely than proficient readers to have longterm negative outcomes. Hernandez (2011) found that children who scored low on literacy tests in third grade were four times less likely to finish high school by age 19 than higher-scoring peers

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The Afterschool Matters Initiative is managed by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time, a program of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College

Georgia Hall, PhD, is Managing Editor of the Afterschool Matters Journal

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