Archived: Reading Excellence Act State Competitive Grant Program: Non-Regulatory Guidance for State Applicants, Appendix C. Local Reading Improvement Activities

A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n

Reading Excellence Act State Competitive Grant Program: Non-Regulatory Guidance for State Applicants – March 9, 1999

Appendix C. Local Reading Improvement Activities

Figure C1. Local Reading Improvement Activities
Title II, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Part C, Reading and Literacy Grants>	Checklist
Section 2255. Local Reading Improvement Subgrants	Checklist
??(d) USE OF FUNDS.?
??(1) IN GENERAL.?Subject to paragraph (2), a local educational agency that receives a subgrant under this section shall use amounts from the subgrant to carry out activities to advance reform of reading instruction in any school that is (A) described in subsection (a)(1)(A), (B) has the largest, or second largest, number of children who are counted under section 1124(c), in comparison to all other schools in the local educational agency, (C) has the highest, or second highest, school-age child poverty rate (as defined in the second sentence of subsection (a)(1)), in comparison to all other schools in the local educational agency. Such activities shall include the following:
?(A) Securing technical and other assistance from?
??(i) a program of reading instruction based on scientifically based reading re-search;
??(ii) a person or entity with experience or expertise about such program and its implementation, who has agreed to work with the recipient in connection with its implementation; or
??(iii) a program providing family literacy services.
??(B) Providing professional development activities to teachers and other instructional staff (including training of tutors), using scientifically based reading research and purchasing of curricular and other supporting materials.
??(C) Promoting reading and library programs that provide access to engaging reading material.
??(D) Providing, on a voluntary basis, training to parents of children enrolled in a school selected to receive assistance under subsection (d)(1) on how to help their children with school work, particularly in the development of reading skills. Such training may be provided directly by the subgrant recipient, or through a grant or contract with another person. Such training shall be consistent with reading reforms taking place in the school setting. No parent shall be required to participate in such training.
??(E) Carrying out family literacy services based on programs such as the Even Start family literacy model authorized under part B of title I, to enable parents to be their child?s first and most important teacher.
??(F) Providing instruction for parents of children enrolled in a school selected to receive assistance under subsection (d)(1), and others who volunteer to be reading tutors for such children, in the instructional practices based on scientifically based reading research used by the applicant.
??(G) Programs to assist those kindergarten students enrolled in a school selected to receive assistance under subsection (d)(1) who are not ready for the transition to first grade, particularly students experiencing difficulty with reading skills.
??(H) Providing additional support for children preparing to enter kindergarten and students in kindergarten through grade 3 who are enrolled in a school selected to receive assistance under subsection (d)(1), who are experiencing difficulty reading, before school, after school, on weekends, during noninstructional periods of the school day, or during the summer, using supervised individuals (including tutors), who have been appropriately trained using scientifically based reading research.
??(I) Providing instruction in reading to children with reading difficulties who?
??(i) are at risk of being referred to special education based on these difficulties; or
??(ii) have been evaluated under section 614 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act but, in accordance with section 614(b)(5) of such Act, have not been identified as being a child with a disability (as defined in section 602 of the such Act).
??(J) Providing coordination of reading, library, and literacy programs within the local educational agency to avoid duplication and increase the effectiveness of reading, library, and literacy activities.
??(2) LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.? A recipient of a subgrant under this section may use not more than 5 percent of the subgrant funds for administrative costs.
??(e) TRAINING NONRECIPIENTS.? A recipient of a subgrant under this section may train, on a fee-for-service basis, personnel from schools, or local educational agencies, that are not a beneficiary of, or receiving, such a subgrant, in the instructional practices based on scientifically based reading research used by the recipient. Such a non-recipient school or agency may use funds received under title I of this Act, and other appropriate Federal funds used for reading instruction, to pay for such training, to the extent consistent with the law under which such funds were received.

-###-

[Appendix B. State Application]

[Appendix. D. Local Reading Improvement Subgrant Application]