Sec. 10-221h. Plan to improve reading skills. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 10-221h. Plan to improve reading skills. On or before September 1, 1999, each local and regional board of education shall develop and implement a three-year plan to improve the reading skills of students in grades kindergarten to three, inclusive. The plan shall be designed to allow all students to attain reading competency. The plan shall include: (1) The specific instructional methods, strategies and activities that will be used to teach reading; (2) a process for assessing and assisting students who are at risk of failing to learn to read by the end of first grade; (3) periodic evaluations of the reading level of students; (4) additional time for remedial instruction for students who fail to make progress in their reading development or are reading below grade level; (5) in-service training programs on the teaching of reading for elementary school teachers; (6) a process for involving parents in addressing the reading problems of their children, including a requirement to provide information to parents on strategies that can be used at home to improve the child's language development prereading or reading skills and referrals to family literacy programs, as appropriate, that incorporate adult basic education and provide for the promotion of literacy through access to public library services; (7) ongoing data collection and monitoring of program effectiveness; and (8) the establishment of school and public library partnerships to improve prereading and reading skills.

      (P.A. 98-243, S. 1, 25.)

      History: P.A. 98-243 effective July 1, 1998.