Why, How & What
It became law on June 10, 2019.
What is the Alabama Literacy Act?
Every month in writing
What is parent notification about student progress?
Frequent monitoring of student reading progress.
What are resources provided to incoming 3rd graders with reading deficiency?
Demonstrated effectiveness as demonstrated by data, multisensory education and evaluations.
What is staffing by highly effective teachers of reading?
Exemptions for students who are reading below grade level to be promoted to fourth grade.
What are Good Cause Exemptions?
A body of empirical research derived from multiple disciplines.
What is the Science of Reading?
Strategies and resources for parents
What is the at-home plan?
Parts of this document include state-approved screening assessment data.
What is information required on an SRIP?
70 hours
What is the amount of minimum time required for a summer school program?
Students not demonstrating sufficient reading still through one of the three pathways.
What is a reason that a student may not be promoted to fourth grade?
A effort to improve reading outcomes for students across Alabama.
Why was the ALA written?
The plan that is developed by the child's teacher, principal, and parent or legal guardian.
Student Reading Improvement Plan
Before or after school, or both, supplemental reading intervention.
What is additional intervention time?
Reading assessments during summer school.
What is assessing at the beginning and ending of the program?
Supplement ACAP given in the summer.
What is an opportunity to earn an acceptable score for a pathway to promotion?
Conducting reading assessments and establishing core reading programs
What is LEA's responsibilities in schools with K-3 ?
A statement that the student has been identified as having a deficiency in reading
What is part of the minimum parent notification requirements?
Daily time for intervention instruction.
What is additional instructional time?
Services and support must provide what to improve reading deficiency.
What is instruction that is direct, explicit, and systemic?
Students identified as EL and have less than three years of instruction in English.
What is one of the good cause exemptions?
Providing Dyslexia-specific intervention
What is one of the LEA's responsibilities?
A description of current services and proposed interventions.
What is another part of the minimum parent notification requirements?
Teacher prep programs shall offer courses approved by the International Dyslexia Association.
What is one of the supports provided to meet the needs of students with characteristics of dyslexia?
Summer Reading Camp
What is a requirement of the Alabama Literacy Act?
Students who have been retained previously in kindergarten, 1st, or 2nd grade for a total of two years.
What is one of the good cause exemptions?