Dr. Felisha Whitaker
Senior Director of Transformation and Teaching and Learning-Elementary Education, whitakerf@gcs.k12.nc.us

Lauren Piper
District Literacy Coordinator, piperl@gcs.k12.nc.us

In order to provide continuing support for North Carolina’s youngest readers, The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction Office of Early Learning has developed and released “Literacy at Home.” This digital resource provides literacy activities at each grade level, pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Families and communities may access this resource for activities that specifically target the literacy skills of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and oral language. When children grow in each of these foundational areas they are well on their way to becoming proficient readers.