Colorado Reading to

Ensure Academic
Development Act
The Colorado
(Colorado READ Act) READ Act
What is it?
Passed by 2012
The Colorado Reading To Ensure
Academic Development Act
Colorado Legislation
(Colorado READ Act) passed by
the Colorado Legislature in 2012
focuses on early literacy
development for all students and
especially for students at risk for
not achieving third grade reading
Assessment & System Performance Office
Parent Brochure
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proficiency. The READ Act focuses Castle Rock, CO 80104
on kindergarten through third
grade (K-3) literacy development, www.dcsdk12.org
literacy assessment and individual
READ plans for students identified
with a significant reading
deficiency.
 What is the Process?
Identify
The READ Act requires that all K-3
students be assessed throughout the
school year with an approved
assessment by the Colorado
Department of Education.
All K-3 students are assessed within
the first 30-days of the school year.
Schools choose the approved
assessment that best benefits the
needs of their students.
Students are identified as having a
significant reading deficiency when
they have scored at or below a
designated score (known as a cut-
score) twice. Then, these students are
administered a state-approved
diagnostic assessment to determine
the greatest area of need.
Additional Resources
Colorado Department of Education -
(http://www.cde.state.co.us/colorado
literacy/readact/index)
For additional questions, contact your
schools principal.
Plan
The writing of the READ plan is a
collaborative process between the
parents/guardians, the classroom
teacher, and an interventionist(s). The
READ plan is reviewed annually to
analyze current data and revise the
plan. READ plans have ongoing
regular updates with progress
monitoring or changes to the
interventions. These results are
communicated to parents/guardians
through various forms of
communication.
A student who has an IEP and is also
identified having a significant reading
deficiency will have two separate
plans.
A student who has an ELLP and is also
identified having a significant reading
deficiency will have two separate
plans.
Serve
Evidence-based instructional
programming is implemented and your
childs progress toward meeting the
specific goals is monitored.
Parents are actively involved in
supporting their child at home using
instructional activities to support their
child's reading success.
Did You Know?
The state's goal is for all children in
Colorado to graduate from high school
having reached skill levels that
adequately prepare them for
postsecondary studies or for the
workforce.
Research shows that achieving reading
competency by third grade is critical in
achieving the states goal. Students
who enter 4th grade performing below
grade level many times begin to fall
behind in other subject areas as well. If
the student's reading skill deficiencies
are not corrected, it is likely that the
student will not have the skills
necessary to complete the course work
required to graduate from high school.
Reading skills are critical to success in
school. Under state law, the education
provider is required to provide
targeted, scientifically based or
evidence-based interventions in the
students greatest area of need that
enable the student to achieve reading
competency and attain the skills
necessary to achieve the state's
academic achievement goals.