Delivery of early reading skills is a Critical Gift. Without this Gift, all children are behind before they start kindergarten.
The Gift, Only an individual gift delivers early reading skills at age 2, 3, 4 and 5. This gift is the key to opportunity. It is society’s best (effective and lowest cost) approach to preparing the most at-risk to want opportunities, choices and engagement.
It became obvious from talking to kindergarten teachers that Early Reading Skills is one of the first required assets that the Most At-Risk need in the process of eliminating the achievement gap. And, science tells us the most sensistive time for learning this is age 3-6. The cost to deliver this at that age is the lowest cost society will ever have to impart this learning. At that age it is a home and community thing so budgets are much more than just the schools. Any wonder the gap so wide?