Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CXV - Bulletin 741-Louisiana Handbook for School Administrators
Chapter 23 - Curriculum and Instruction
Subchapter A - Standards and Curricula
Section CXV-2307 - Literacy Assessment and Screener

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CXV-2307

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 3, March 20, 2024

A. Each LEA shall require that every child enrolled in kindergarten-third grade be given the BESE-approved literacy screener three times per school year: within the first 30 days of the school year, in December, and in April. The results of this screener shall be used to plan instruction and provide appropriate and timely intervention. The results of the screener will also provide information required by R.S. 17:24.9, student reading skills; requirements; reports.

1. Each student administered a literacy screener will be identified as reading below, at, or above grade level. Students scoring above grade level may be considered for evaluation into a gifted program.

2. For students with significant hearing or visual impairment, nonverbal students, or students with significant cognitive impairment, the LEA will provide an alternate assessment recommended by the LDE.

3. Each LEA will report to the LDE screener results by child within the timeframes and according to the guidance established by the LDE.

4. For grades 1-3, the school should use the prior year's latest screener level to begin appropriate intervention until the new screener level is determined.

5. Any student scoring below grade level in reading based upon assessment and/or progress monitoring must be provided scientific, research-based reading intervention upon identification. The reading intervention shall do all of the following:
a. provide explicit, direct instruction that is systematic, sequential, and cumulative in language development, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, as applicable;

b. provide targeted small group reading interventions based on student need in phonological awareness, phonics including decoding and encoding, vocabulary, or comprehension; and

c. be implemented during regular school hours.

B. Each LEA shall administer the literacy screener provided by the LDE for each grade level to meet kindergarten-third grade literacy assessment requirements.

C.Beginning June 1, 2023, and triennially thereafter, each school shall use data from the literacy screener in order to develop and submit to LDE the school foundational literacy plan for students in kindergarten through third grade pursuant to R.S. 17:24.9

1. Each foundational literacy skills plan shall include:
a. the amount of time to be devoted daily to foundational literacy skills and a description of how the instructional time will be utilized;

b. a list of English language arts textbooks and instructional materials adopted by the school;

c. a description of the interventions and supports available to students identified as having literacy skills below grade level; and

d. a description of the professional development in foundational literacy skills instruction provided to teachers who teach kindergarten through third grade.

D. Each LEA shall provide for literacy coaches for reading teachers in kindergarten through third grade for the purposes of providing on-site teacher training on evidence-based reading instruction, demonstrating lessons, co-teaching or observation, and providing feedback for improving instruction subject to the appropriation of funds.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6; R.S.17:24.4; R.S. 17:24.9; and R.S.17:24.10.

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