{"id":2662,"date":"2024-08-05T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2024-09-25T21:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T21:31:27","slug":"mde-announces-eight-regional-literacy-meetings-for-families-of-k-3-students-across-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2024\/08\/05\/mde-announces-eight-regional-literacy-meetings-for-families-of-k-3-students-across-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"MDE announces eight regional literacy meetings for families of K-3 students across the state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: \u00a0Aug. 5, 2024<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/news_20240805.jpg\" alt=\"MDE announces eight regional literacy meetings for families of K-3 students across the state\" data-align=\"center\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"12c151a5-3662-4e12-83a1-012a680dd181\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MDE announces eight regional literacy meetings for families of K-3 students across the state<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education will host eight regional literacy meetings beginning Sept. 5, for families of students in kindergarten through third grade.<\/p>\n<p>At the meetings, families will receive an overview of the Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA), which is the state law concerning literacy and assessment, as well as strategies that can be used at home to help students improve their reading skills. The LBPA focuses on prevention and intervention to help children develop reading skills required for fourth grade.\u00a0Family engagement is also a critical component of students\u2019 reading success.<\/p>\n<p>All meetings are from 6 \u2013 7 p.m. and no registration is required. Families can attend any meeting regardless of the location.<\/p>\n<p>See flyer at <a href=\"https:\/\/msachieves.mdek12.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/LBPA-8.5x11-Family-Night-Flyer_8.1.24-1.pdf\"><u>Regional Literacy Family Night Flyer<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out additional family resources at <a href=\"https:\/\/strongreadersms.com\/reading-score\/\"><u>strongreadersms.com<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/news20240805_1.png\" alt=\"MDE announces eight regional literacy meetings for families of K-3 students across the state_1\" data-align=\"center\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ee97f815-06cb-4bf1-bfc5-f00753c27c48\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Find all MDE news releases at <a href=\"\/communications\/2024\"><u>mdek12.org\/news<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jean Cook, APR<br \/>\nChief of Communication<br \/>\n601-359-3515<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jcook@mdek12.org\">jcook@mdek12.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shanderia Minor<br \/>\nPublic Information Officer<br \/>\n601-359-3515<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sminor@mdek12.org\">sminor@mdek12.org<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education will host eight regional literacy meetings beginning Sept. 5, for families of students in kindergarten through third grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}