Summary: Minnesota Reading Corps and Early Literacy

January 16, 2009

Presentation by: Minnesota Reading Corps (MRC)

Christina Sheran, former literacy coordinator for MRC
Steve Struthers (MRC Vice President of Strategy & Results Management)

Christina Sheran:
Worked for MRC for 6 years, before returning to work as a school psychologist. 

Start early and be intentional about building pre-reading skills: We started 6 years ago with the idea we had to start early. By 3rd grade you have to be reading proficiently. That’s not a lot of time. Under the old model, kids would come to kindergarten, learn to be part of a group and learn to follow directions, and maybe learn something about the letters in your name. We never thought about how children learn to read...