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Overbrook program reports midyear literacy gains; district highlights teacher professional development
Summary
Overbrook Early Learning Center leaders told the East Haven board that play-based instruction, targeted phonics and interactive read-alouds produced measurable midyear gains in pre‑K literacy; district staff also reported broad positive feedback on recent professional development.
Marissa Velasquez, representing Overbrook Early Learning Center, told the East Haven Board of Education that the center’s play‑based approach is producing measurable gains in early literacy. “Play is the pathway of literacy,” Velasquez said as she described classroom routines that embed letter‑sound work, phonemic awareness and interactive read‑alouds.
Velasquez said Overbrook serves about 200 students in 10 pre‑K classrooms (ages about 2.8–5). She presented beginning‑of‑year and midyear assessment snapshots: for letter identification the distribution…
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