MERO Literacy

MERO's Love Of Literacy program

Literacy Program

The ESD 105 Migrant Education Regional Office assists educators in expanding their knowledge of English language development, literacy and learning strategies to support students in achieving high levels of understanding in content areas. Our literacy program strives for reading, writing, and oral fluency of kindergarten to 12th grade students.

By building relationships with the districts and their federal project directors, we are able to recommend research-based programs and professional development that directly meet a district's needs based on local data. A combination of literacy, school improvement training, and instructional strategy programs provided by MERO and ESD 105 assists districts with tools important to their work of increasing student academic achievement.

MERO's Love Of Literacy program works directly with students in providing free recreational reading books to migrant children in our region who make a commitment to be lifelong readers.

The workshops and trainings listed below are available to districts we serve. For more information on programs described on this page, contact our Migrant Literacy coordinator.

Assessment and School Improvement

Washington Language Proficiency Test (WLPT) Training – Training is available for districts in need of more specific understanding for personnel who administer and score the Washington Language Proficiency Test (WLPT), which is used to assess students' proficiency in reading and writing in English.

Instructional Strategies

Sheltered Instruction Observational Protocol (SIOP) – Intensive training in SIOP is provided, using the most current model for English language instruction based on research developed by Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah Short, and through the Center for Applied Linguistics. Components include lesson preparation, building background, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, practice/application, lesson delivery, review/assessment, and specific lesson plans.

Project GLAD Guided Language Acquisition Design

Put Reading First

The Partnership for Reading offers the Spanish translation of the popular "Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read - A Parent Guide". This brochure provides a quick overview of the findings of the National Reading Panel for parents and gives ideas for what to expect from a school's reading program based on evidence from the research (preschool through grade 3). The brochure also suggests ways parents can reinforce reading instruction at home with everyday activities and interactions. The Partnership is a collaborative effort of the National Institute for Literacy and its federal partners, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
• Spanish language version of brochure
• English language version of brochure