Advocating For Letter Recognition Skills In Pre-Kindergarten Students

Advocacy in North Lafayette, La.

As 2024 begins I find myself going on 4 years outside the classroom. Its still very important for me to advocate for students. Currently in my position as a preschool curriculum developer my advocacy for students looks different. Its important for me to spread my cause by creating research opportunities and building my knowledge regarding curriculum writing and early literacy skills. Specifically, it is important for preschool students that attend in-home child care to to have access to early literacy curriculums and lessons that will build their letter recognition skills. Data is showing that students entering Kindergarten from in-home child care are far more behind than students from Head Start Programs, Day Care Facilities and Pre-Schools with educational curriculums.

Advocacy is important because it acts as a representative for under represented groups in spaces where they are not prevalent. such as students in low economic status or preschool students attending in home child care facilities. Educational resources and access to tech should be something easily accessible to all groups of students. Yet, it is not. So who speaks up for preschool students who can not represent their own educational needs? Advocates. Those who see the educational gaps and inequities and shows up to the spaces where the resources are or creates avenues for those resources to reach the students who need them.

As I stated before, in my community of North Lafayette Louisiana many in-home child providers and their students are struggling to access tech and educational resources that will benefit the early literacy skills of their students. Data shows students entering the school system in North Lafayette are struggling specifically with Letter Recognition Skills during Kindergarten year. Interviews from an Action Research Study, conduced during my first year at LSU, showed concerns from in-home child care providers regarding access to educational tech and resources. Would better opportunities produce better results? Absolutely.

In the summer of 2023, I advocated for the children in my community of North Side Lafayette. I directed a Kids Summer Jam summer camp program in my home for children in my neighborhood ages 5-12. It was created to give the kids something constructive fun and educational to do over the summer. I assessed the kids letter recognition and reading skills. With those results I helped students who had gaps. We worked the entire summer to prepare Pre-K and Kindergarten students with the Letter Recognition skills needed for the next grade they were entering. We saw amazing results. That is why I will always advocate for early literacy skills, in-home childcare providers, and access to resources we all deserve.

Donielle Davis

Director (Royalty Academy Edu) (The Kids Summer Jam)

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