Improving Reading Skills of Middle School Students

Virginia Receives Federal Grant to Improve Reading Skills of Middle School Students
"Striving Readers" Focuses on Schools in Norfolk, Richmond & Roanoke

Struggling readers in eight Virginia middle schools will receive supplemental instruction through an initiative funded by a multi-year Striving Readers grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

The eight schools in three divisions were selected by the Virginia Department of Education to participate in the Virginia Striving Readers Intervention Initiative. The schools are as follows:

Norfolk

Azalea Gardens Middle
Lake Taylor Middle

Richmond

Thomas C. Boushall Middle
Lucille M. Brown Middle

Roanoke

Addison Aerospace Magnet Middle
Breckinridge Middle
Stonewall Jackson Middle
Woodrow Wilson Middle


Groups of seventh-grade and eighth-grade students in the eight schools will receive supplemental instruction during the school day, beginning in 2010-2011. Follow-up awards totaling $1.4 million annually will support supplemental instruction for struggling readers in the eight schools through 2012-2013 and the impact of the tutoring on reading achievement will be independently evaluated