{"id":251567,"date":"2026-07-25T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251567\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:47:10","slug":"city-partners-with-evsc-evpl-on-reading-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251567\/","title":{"rendered":"City Partners with EVSC, EVPL on Reading Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Evansville is boosting its effort to get more children reading at their grade level. WNIN\u2019s John Gibson has details:<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Stephanie Terry says the city\u2019s We Read initiative has partnered with EVSC Community Engagement and the Evansville Public Library for the free Science of Reading series:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Led by EVSC literacy experts, the sessions will help parents and caregivers better understand how children learn to read. You&#8217;ll learn about phonics, decoding, comprehension, and simple ways to support reading at home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"650\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784940430_669_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A link to register for the three-part Science of Reading program can be found on Mayor Terry\u2019s Facebook page or <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScIjiHUVkXgHA893U9SPLLSAKr-BgGNzdZJ5_65Ah4sDck3EQ\/viewform\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interested parents and caregivers can register for one, two, or all three events in the series.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the city\u2019s We Read program is to have at least 95-percent of Evansville children reading at their grade level by 2027.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\"  width=\"880\" height=\"573\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784940430_433_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Evansville is boosting its effort to get more children reading at their grade level. WNIN\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-251567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}