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(10 Jun 2023)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbus, Kansas – 1 February 2023
1. Bekah Noel teaches class
HEADLINE: Kids' reading behind despite pandemic reopening
2. Exterior of Highland Elementary
ANNOTATION: The 900-student school system in Columbus, Kansas, pivoted to remote learning briefly in March 2020 before going back in person that fall.
3. Noel teaching at smartboard
ANNOTATION: Disruptions in teaching still took a toll.
4. Parker reading with classmate – UPSOUND “Do you want to read? Because I’m not very good at it.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Columbus, Kansas – 19 April 2023
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bekah Noel, teacher:
“With COVID, we weren't allowed to put them into small groups, or if we did, we had to maintain the six-foot rule. So, it was very hard to work with small groups. So, these kids, when they should have been like in first grade, working with small groups and really working on sounds and reading. They weren't allowed to be put into those groups.”
6. Group of students reading
ANNOTATION: Now, Noel's students and other third-graders are under pressure to master reading ahead of later grades, where literacy is key to learning other subjects.
7. Close of student using fingers to read
8. Various of students reading individually
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bekah Noel, teacher:
“And we group kids based on if they are tier one, which is on level tier two, where they're needing a little bit of intervention or tier three where they need extensive interventions. I didn't have a single tier two kid. All of my kids were either well above grade level or well below.”
10. Various of students reading with teaching assistant
ANNOTATION: Federal data shows pandemic disruptions were accompanied by widespread learning setbacks, even in states that returned quickly to in-person learning.
11. Close of student highlighting paper
ANNOTATION: The Columbus school district adopted a new strategy: a reading curriculum that is heavy on phonics to help students catch up on reading.
12. Bekah Noel works with student
13. Parker reads out loud
ANNOTATION: The district also doubled the number of paraprofessionals assigned to help its small groups of struggling students.
14. Student reads to group out loud
15. Parker reads to himself
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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Parker, third-grade student:
“I just didn't really like reading. Because it wasn't because I haven't found the books that I like. And then I found the books later on.”
17. Parker reads to himself using tablet
ANNOTATION: Parker started the year reading at the level of a first-grader. Midway through the year he was flagged for a special education assessment.
18. Noel teaches class
19. Parker speaks with classmate
ANNOTATION: When the special education testing came back, it showed he didn't qualify, and showed he was close to reading at the level of a beginning third-grader.
20. Close of student reading
21. Close of student working on assignment
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22. SOUNDBITE (English) Parker, third-grade student
“Yeah, it was harder a while ago, and then I just kept on practicing with my mom every night, and then it got easier and easier.”
23. Parker works on assignment with group

STORYLINE:



“I have kids,” Noel said midway through the year, “that legitimately cannot read.”




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