Westport, CT - Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities and the Westport Library invite you to an important talk on March 15 at 7:00pm at the Westport Library.
Reading is the most important skill children learn in school. Parents of preschool and early elementary-school children play an important role in helping children with the basic skills needed to enter kindergarten ready to read. Dr. Margie Gillis, President of Literacy How and a leading expert on reading, will discuss such basics as reading and talking with your child, alphabet and beginning writing activities, as well as red flags suggesting your child may need extra help.
In addition to training teachers in research-based reading instruction through Literacy How, which she founded in 2009, Margie Gillis, Ed.D. has partnered with many CT organizations to close the state’s reading achievement gap, and collaborates with Stepping Stones Museum for Children on the development, delivery, and duplication of the Early Language and Literacy Initiative (ELLI), an evidence-based PreK lab school model. She is a founding board member of Literate Nation, a grassroots organization working to support states in passing literacy legislation, and of Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities.