Literacy
Third Grade Literacy Proficiency
Act 422 of the 2023 Regular Legislative Session mandates that students in traditional public schools must meet specific literacy proficiency standards to be promoted to the fourth grade.
Third grade is crucial for literacy growth as students transition from learning to read to reading to learn across subjects. Research suggests that students who are not proficient by this grade often face ongoing academic challenges, leading to higher dropout rates and fewer students prepared for college and careers. Boosting proficiency and closing achievement gaps in third grade are primary goals in our Louisiana public schools.
Beginning in the 2024-2025 academic year, a new Louisiana law will take effect requiring third-grade students who are significantly underperforming in reading to repeat the grade. This legislation aims to address literacy challenges by ensuring students have foundational reading skills before advancing to fourth grade.
How can parents be proactive about their child’s literacy development? Contact your child’s teacher to discuss the results of literacy screeners as well as the resources and services available for your child. Learn ways on how you can support your child’s literacy development at home.
The Louisiana Department of Education has released a series of activities that families can do at home to build literacy skills. These one-page resources are organized by age groups and offer ideas for customized, fun, simple literacy activities.
Family Literacy Engagement Activities
Building Literacy Skills at Home
Grab & Go Activities
Helpful Websites
Steve Carter Literacy Tutoring Program
Does your child need reading help? Assistance may be available! The Steve Carter Tutoring Program provides $1,500 vouchers to families of eligible K-12 public school students per school year. The digital vouchers can be used to purchase high-quality literacy and math tutoring.
Available to K-12 grade public school students who are below reading and mathematics proficiency.
Step 1
Obtain your child's LASID Number
You will need your child's 10-digit Louisiana Department of Education Student ID (LASID) number, which can be provided by their school.
Step 2
Complete the Sign-Up
Register on the Steve Carter Tutoring Program Parent Portal by providing your contact information along with your child's LASID number, school district, school, grade level, and date of birth.
Step 3
Eligibility and Account Creation
If your child is eligible, you can create an account and access a list of participating tutors through the Student Dashboard.
Consider choosing "Purple Ruler" as your tutoring provider. TPSS has partnered with the team of tutors to provide high-quality instruction to our children.
Purple Ruler
Step 4
Tutoring Sessions
If chosen as the provider, Purple Tutoring will begin tutoring sessions, after which they will submit invoices to the Steve Carter Tutoring Program team for approval.
Step 5
Invoice Approval
You will receive an email to approve the invoice after each session, ensuring everyting is accurate before your child's tutor is paid
Questions?
If you need your child's unique ID or test score information, please contact your child's school.
Steve Carter Education Program - Tutoring Guidance
If you have any questions regarding the Louisiana Tutoring Initiative, please contact 877-390-0556 between 7am and 4pm Monday – Friday (CST) or contact us on contact@louisianatutoringinitiative.com
Questions: tutoring@la.gov
Partners in Literacy
TPSS is on a mission to increase the literacy skills of our children!
Tangipahoa Parish School System aims to find creative, innovative, and encouraging ways to provide more literacy exposure to our elementary age children. We are committed to helping our local businesses discover the best ways that they can make the largest impacts on nourishing the early literacy development of the children in our community.
Make a positive, lasting impact in your community.
Tangipahoa Parish School System is calling on all Tangi businesses to join our mission of having every child in our parish read on level by the third grade. Currently, only 46.1% of the students in our parish are considered on-level for literacy. Each day, TPSS strives to increase that number.
As a business owner, you have the power to make a lasting impact on the future by fostering a love of reading among children who visit your establishment. By supporting literacy, you help shape young minds, strengthen our community, and create lifelong learners. Consider simple ways to encourage reading:
📚 Provide a small reading corner or books for children.
📖 Offer discounts or incentives for kids who bring in a book to read while at your establishment.
🖍️ Provide literacy-based placemats or activity sheets.
📝 Donate to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library
Your business can be more than a place of service—it can be a place of inspiration. Let’s work together to build a brighter future, one book at a time!
If you are a business owner in Tangipahoa Parish and are interested in becoming a Partner in Literacy, fill out the form above and a team member will contact you soon.
Thank You To Our Partners in Literacy
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- Aymond Acres Eggs
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- B.J. Ginn Funeral & Cremation Services, LLC.
- Bora Media LLC
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- Cate Street Seafood Station- Jonathan Wong, Alesia Gagliano
- Chappapeela Sports Park
- Chehardy Sherman Williams
- Kim Coates
- Courage To Save CPR Training, LLC
- CretinTownsend Homes -Mikey Doucet
- CRP Mentorship
- Cutting the Pattern
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- Dreammakers Home Builder’s
- Dyslexia Institutes America-Florida Parishes
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- ELOS Environmental, LLC
- Encore Event Center
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- Family Health and Wellness Center
- Fine Finds Connect
- Fleur De Lis Law & Title
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- Gabriel Building Supply
- Gene's Greenhouses
- Giving Transformation
- GMG Southern Properties
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- Hammond Northshore Regional
- Hammond Recreation Department Airshow
- Hancock Whitney
- Home Instead
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- Kev Kre8tive
- Kiwanis Club and Key Club of Ponchatoula, Louisiana
- KitScy Foundation (KSF)
- Kim Coates
- Kre8tive Solutions LLC
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- La Carreta Downtown Ponchatoula
- Legacy Hospice
- Nichole Liuzza
- LSU AgCenter
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- New Beginners, Inc
- NextHome Real Estate Professionals
- North Tangipahoa Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc
- Northshore Technical Community College
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- Organization to Elect Joyce Jackson
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- Parker Layrisson Law Firm
- PGM &Community Development Corporation
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- Rapture Firearms
- Rotary Club of Amite
- Royal Nutrition
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- Sheriff Gerald Sticker
- Sign Gypsies of Hammond
- Smile Doctors Braces by DN Orthodontics
- Southern Roots Dyslexia Therapy LLC
- Star Academy
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- Tangipahoa Chamber of Commerce
- Tangipahoa Parish Fair
- Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court
- Tangipahoa Parish Assessor's Office
- The Tangi Times
- Transformational Care
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- Utopia Creations
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- Walmart Distribution Center 6057
- Wanda J's Alterations
- Woodland Park Baptist Church
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
We need your help to fund the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Southeast Louisiana.
The Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books each month to children from birth to age five, free of charge, through funding shared by local community partners in Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington parishes.
Through United Way, we are able to give back to create a better, stronger community with opportunity for all.
Please make sure to select Tangipahoa Parish as the receiving organization. Thank you for your Literacy Partnership!
“I’m so excited to share that Louisiana is kicking off their statewide expansion, and I want to personally thank the Governor and First Lady or leading the way of bringing Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Louisiana,” says Dolly.
Inspired by her father’s inability to read or write, Dolly started her Imagination Library in 1995 for the children within her home county. Today, her program spans five countries and gifts over 2.5 million free books each month to children, regardless of the family’s income.
