A Closer Look at the Summer Literacy Initiative
The Summer Literacy Initiative is a statewide collaborative effort working with rural faith communities in North Carolina to combat learning loss in their communities through evidence-informed summer literacy programs for rising first through third graders.
Explore SLI Locations in North Carolina
The Summer Literacy Initiative currently serves over 25 North Carolina counties and plans to expand! View our current counties, potential expansion counties, and program impact and statistics.
We Don’t Just Prevent Learning Loss, We Accelerate Learning
The Summer Literacy Initiative (SLI) has partnered with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) since 2020 to support evidence-building activities. Over the past five years, AIR has documented and described changes in students’ reading skills, attitudes, and home literacy environments!
Families participating in SLI programs have demonstrated growth in:
Student reading skills
Family reading supports
Student reading confidence
AIR is continuing to partner with the SLI team to analyze state administrative data to understand how SLI students’ growth compares to others in the state.
Impact across North Carolina
*Months of learning estimates are based on extrapolation from the expected annual growth for students at each grade level in the MAP technical manual.
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