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A lot of the resources for lower SES students that people are posting about are for older kids. What about universal pre-K or more summer or academic support programs for kids in elementary? My son is in K at an ACPS school and I volunteer in his school regularly. At the end of the year, there were kids who could not read the most basic 3 letter words who are moving on to 1st grade. Of course, there are also lower SES kids who are academically on track, but for the lower SES kids who are not, it is a genuinely worrisome situation.

One issue they face in the early years right now is that many of those K students are ESL students who speak only spanish at home. this is a problem because they first have to learn some basic spoken English to communicate and then they actually have to learn the rules of phonics and reading. They can't rely on parents because the parents might speak conversational English but might not be able to read it or pronounce it correctly. So, it's not a question of more kids going to Pre-K. That would help but only help marginally. [/quote]

English is the first language of the children in my son's class that I am worried about.  [/quote]

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