Specialized Literacy Professionals Service Project Grant. 

The goals of this service project grant initiative are to:

• initiate, extend, or expand existing university-, school- and/or community-based literacy projects
•  support literacy-focused trainings for parents and other community members, and/or professional learning opportunities for teachers, specialists, and other school-based professionals /or parents
•  increase access, equity, and diversity efforts related to literacy instruction and/or literacy materials
• expand literacy intervention work.
• align grant work with the SLP mission (http://www.literacyprofessional.org/) and the 2017 Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals (https://literacyworldwide.org/get-resources/standards/standards-2017)

Submissions date for the Service Project Grant is TBA.

​For more information on applying, please follow the instructions here. 

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2025 SLP Service Project Grant Winner

Angela Curfman and Melesa Swartz​

Project Title: “Read Like a Scientist: Investigating the World Through Literacy” 

• An interactive family literacy and STREAM event designed for caregivers of K–3 students in the Wheeling, WV area.
• 90-minute workshop combined a read-aloud, with hands-on science activities, modeling how caregivers can “read like scientists” at home.
• The bbjectives of the grant were: to equip families with strategies for literacy and inquiry; build caregiver confidence and foster sustainable, culturally responsive learning connections across communities; and position preservice teachers, caregivers, and children for a meaningful shared experience in literacy and inquiry
• Science tools, along with copies of Andrea Beaty’s Ada Twist, Scientist—a 2016 book inspired by mathematician Ada Lovelace and physicist Marie Curie that celebrates curiosity, perseverance, and the importance of asking “Why?”