{"id":359731,"date":"2026-07-03T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359731\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:54:16","slug":"houston-isd-launches-programs-to-improve-elementary-student-reading-skills-bellaire-meyerland-west-university-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/359731\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ISD launches programs to improve elementary student reading skills | Bellaire &#8211; Meyerland &#8211; West University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new program dubbed \u201cAccelerated Science of Reading\u201d will be offered for select HISD kindergarten and first grade students who read below the average in their grade level, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonisd.org\/schools-academics\/academics\/literacy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">district\u2019s website<\/a>. This program will provide those students with lessons designed to \u201caddress specific skill gaps\u201d and help them improve.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s new<\/p>\n<p>Seven HISD campuses will pilot the new \u201cKinder Bridge\u201d program, which adds an optional grade level in between kindergarten and first grade for students who read below the grade level average, according to the June 22 news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren develop at different rates and time matters a lot,\u201d Hole said. \u201cKinder Bridge allows more time for development for the students who need it and increases the likelihood that students will reach grade level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new program dubbed \u201cAccelerated Science of Reading\u201d will be offered for select HISD kindergarten and first grade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,1686,127499,127497,127498,127501,127500,127496,57],"class_list":["post-359731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-isd","tag-houston-isd-accelerated-science-of-reading","tag-houston-isd-early-learning","tag-houston-isd-kinder-bridge","tag-houston-isd-literacy-promotion-standard","tag-houston-isd-reading","tag-houston-isd-reading-initiatives","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}