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READ Plan: New Field for the 2014-15 READ Collection 4/8/2019 READ Plan: New Field for the 2014-15 READ Collection READ Plan – for any student identified with a significant reading deficiency at any time (not just End of Year testing), is a READ Plan still in place? For any student who has never been identified as SRD enter “NA” – it is not applicable. This allows CDE to report per the READ act on when students reach proficiency (off a READ Plan) regardless of when they were identified. Also allows districts the ability to know when students achieve proficiency If you get RD211 for a student that is not SRD that means that it is just pointing out that they had an SRD last year. 2

READ Plan: New Field for the 2014-15 READ Collection 4/8/2019 READ Plan: New Field for the 2014-15 READ Collection How to use this field: Scenarios Coding 1. K-3 – any student identified with a SRD at any time throughout the year 0 – No (student is not on a READ Plan) 1 – Yes (student has a READ Plan) 2. 4th and 5th grade cohort to indicate if a READ Plan is still in place or not. 0 – No (student has been removed from READ Plan) 1 – Yes (student is still on READ Plan) 3. Any student identified in the fall (with interim measures not reported) but by spring collection is above the cut score but still on a READ Plan 4. Any student identified last spring in the READ collection (2014) but is above the cut score this spring collection (2015) For more information about how to code Cohort kids, please take a look at the FAQ document Student can not have SRD but still be on a READ Plan 3

How to identify 4th and 5th grade cohort kids Pre-populated excel file of your 4-12 cohort students 4

3rd Grade Cohort For the 2014-15 school year you will be reporting only 4th and 5th grade students as part of the cohort How to identify your cohort students: 1. Run the New COGNOS Report – “Student extract of 4-12 graders with a Significant Reading Deficiency in the Prior Year” 2. Run this report for the current school year (2014-2015). Districts will be able to download an excel file preloaded with all READ fields for 4-12 graders except for READ Plan. 3. Districts must add the value for READ Plan (0 or 1) to indicate if the cohort student remains in the cohort or has exited from the cohort based on READ Plan ( 0 – no or 1- yes) 4. Districts will then copy and paste this information into their READ file before submitting data (this is just one of the ways to submit cohort data) IMPORTANT: Districts must ensure that the student interchange is updated prior to running this report 5

READ Resources READ Collection Timeline (New!) Data Elements Business Rules File Layout Template (New!) Special Education Exemption Request FAQ Document Cut Scores Documents for Interim Assessments All available at: http://www.cde.state.co.us/coloradoliteracy/dataelementsforread2014-2015 For assistance please contact Whitney Westgaard at: Westgaard_W@cde.state.co.us or 303-866-6421 6

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