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  • Lake Wales Pre-School Teacher Helps Literacy Skills Soar With Poetry

    Belinda Kramer, Special to the News|Updated Mar 27, 2023
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    Lake Wales preschool director and owner of Blessed Child Daycare Vivian Lewter Loydd understands the literacy dilemma in the United States, and resolved to do something about it. Florida has the third highest percentage of adults lacking basic prose literacy skills and its population has a literacy rate of just 80.3 percent. With over 22 years of experience, the poet Loydd had a great idea to foster that love with her 4 and 5-year-old students recently. She realized that the...