Little Dixie Community Action Agency’s
Early Reading First – Project ROAR
Rural Oklahoma Advocates Reading

  After being awarded a $3,992,258 grant from the U. S. Department of Education, Little Dixie Community Action Agency began its Early Reading First program, Project ROAR (Rural Oklahoma Advocates Reading) on October 1, 2005.  The three year grant was awarded to create centers of excellence in five communities of the three counties that Little Dixie covers.  The five communities include Boswell and Hugo in Choctaw County, Idabel and Oak Hill in McCurtain County, as well as Antlers in Pushmataha County.  Little Dixie received one of only four of these grants to be awarded to Oklahoma in the four years of its availability.  The other three grants were received by Oklahoma University. This program was designed to improve the literacy environments and literacy instruction in fourteen of Little Dixie Head Start ’s pre-kindergarten classrooms in these five communities.