The COVID-19 pandemic left primary caregivers with the unprecedented role of delivering instruction to their children. Unfortunately, most caregivers are not trained to deliver evidence-based reading practices and learning losses during the pandemic is well-documented. The importance of positively affecting home literacy practices and helping children recover from the effect of the pandemic is more important than ever. Additionally, families are often faced with barriers to high-quality home literacy resources, such as materials, parental educational attainment, socio-economic status, and language. The Advancing Comprehension and Engagement (ACE) Literacy Project brings the evidence-based Knowledge Acquisition and Transformation (KAT) Framework, which focuses on reading comprehension, into the home literacy environment by offering free, interactive podcasts and video podcasts to all in both English and Spanish. The podcasts and video podcasts provide a model of how to read with children and allow them to respond via text messaging. ACE guides families through an introduction, relevant vocabulary, reading of the text, generation of main idea, extension to summary, and the process of inferring with the goal of improving reading comprehension while removing access barriers.
The panel discussion will include the following:
• empirical research supporting the ACE Project
• implementation of ACE Project with online guides
• family responses to implementation of ACE
• audience participation on ACE platform

Authors:
Ashley Stack, Texas A & M University, United States
Kay Wijekumar, Texas A & M University, United States
Javier Garza, Texas A & M University, United States
Pilar Sierra, Texas A & M University, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Ashley Stack is a doctoral student and research specialist at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include reading comprehension, early literacy (birth-age 5), and home literacy. Ms. Stack manages a reading comprehension project for families.

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ashley-Stack-2

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