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DPS first raised the alarm about the pandemic’s effects on early literacy in the fall of 2021, when test scores showed a steep drop in the percentage of young students reading at grade level.

He happily starts on the book, an "easy reader" aimed at a first grade reading level. He struggles with words: nice, true, voice, sure, might, outside, and because.

The Iowa Department of Education will hand out 100,000 book packs — 1 million books in all — to first grade ... grade students were proficient at reading, ... a basic reading level.