1. Comprehensive Literacy Program Louisiana Department of Education
Striving Readers
Comprehensive Literacy Program
Jill B. Slack, PhD
Director | Literacy Office
Louisiana Department of Education

3. State Literacy Plans: Core Components
Leadership and Sustainability
Creating literacy teams and plans for organizing, implementing, and sustaining effective approaches to Birth-Grade 12 literacy

4. State Literacy Plans: Core Components
Standards-Based Curriculum
Examining state standards, grade-level-expectations, and curriculum frameworks through the lens of literacy

5. State Literacy Plans: Core Components
Assessment System
Identifying and using valid and reliable measures to screen, monitor progress, and diagnose literacy needs to target instruction for each age level/grade span

6. State Literacy Plans: Core Components
Instruction and Intervention
Identifying and using valid and reliable measures to screen, monitor progress, and diagnose literacy needs to target instruction for each age level/grade span

7. State Literacy Plans: Core Components
Professional Learning and Resources
Developing learning opportunities, Web resources, and coordinated support services that enhance literacy learning for students and educators

8. Roles and Capacities of States
Review research on program/strategy effectiveness
Set high expectations and provide guidelines and oversight to ensure strong implementation
Disseminate materials, resources, and tools that prepare teachers to deliver high-quality instruction
Provide technical assistance and support to implement core components
Target intensive support for schools with the greatest need

9. Roles and Capacities of States
Use data systems to track student performance, identify areas of need, design policies, and evaluate impact
Establish guidelines for literacy coaches, interventionists, SLPs, etc. to support efforts
Develop a pipeline of strong leaders and teachers
Identify demonstration sites to serve as models
Identify people in and out of the state who know about literacy to partner with schools 9

10. Literacy Capacity Survey

11. Support Transition to Common Standards
Ensure the comprehensive literacy plan addresses the concepts and skills in the common core standards
Adopt high-quality instructional materials that align to the standards
Provide professional development and in-class support to help teachers implement the standards

12. Support Transition to Common Standards
Educate parents and community members on the purpose, aim, and content of the standards
Embed progress monitoring on the standards and make data reporting available to drive continuous improvement
Make resources readily available online

13. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Include a comprehensive learning support system that addresses classroom-based approaches, family and community engagement, and interventions that facilitate literacy and learning with modifications for limited English-proficient children, children with disabilities, and disadvantaged children

14. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Provide clear actions in the literacy plan that address the needs of diverse learners
Recommend resources that provide guidance and support (e.g., differentiated instructional strategies, technology tools, multisensory approaches)

15. Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
Extend learning time and opportunities (e.g., educationally-rich afterschool, summer learning) for students
Ensure professional development enhances teacher capacity
Establish better data and information reports about these children