Government funding will allow Alberta’s schools to increase support to improve writing, reading and numeracy skills for early grade students who have fallen behind during the pandemic
The Alberta government has outlined how it will distribute $45-million to school divisions across the province to help students who have fallen behind during the pandemic, including by hiring additional staff or bringing in additional resources.
The spring funding announcement cited research from George Georgiou, an educational psychology professor at the University of Alberta, who found that students last fall were reading below their grade levels, with most struggling in primary school. Dr. Georgiou gave the provincial government a package of recommendations to help struggling students, including improving reading skills by focusing on phonological awareness – the ability to perceive and work with sound – as well as phonics – teaching methods used to help students learn how to read and write alphabets.
The Calgary Catholic School District said in an e-mailed statement that it had identified 4,575 of its Grade 2 and 3 students who require additional support. The district will receive $2.2-million for the 2021-22 school year. Melissa Bishop, a parent of a Grade 2 student in Edmonton, said that her son has not made it to grade reading level.
“I’m wondering if that allocation of $490 per student is actually going to go to the students in a way that benefits them,” she said.
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