BROOKLYN – THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY has received a $200,000 grant from the Heckscher Foundation for Children and $180,000 from Assemblymember Robert Carroll to expand its evidence-based literacy initiatives and provide decodable books at branches across the borough, the library announced last week.

Assemblymember Carroll with Linda Johnson, President and CEO of BPL, reading “Dogs at Work” to a group of students from P.S. 321 at the Park Slope Library. Photo courtesy of the assemblymember’s office.

Decodable readers are books that help new readers practice phonics. They use mostly words that match the letter-sound patterns students have already learned, so children can sound out the text, read successfully, and build confidence and fluency, according to Carroll’s office. The funding

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