New Business Item 31 (2018)

Action:

Adopted As Amended

NEA will use existing resources to:

1. Share existing research and finding about struggling readers (students unable to learn to read at an age appropriate rate given appropriate instruction, students considered to be showing pre-dyslexic tendencies, and/or students identified as having dyslexia), their experiences, and the effects of struggling to read on their lives;
2. Promote the use of culturally responsive universal screening and early reading intervention in states not currently doing so;
3. Promote instructional practices that include existing evidence-based, multi-sensory, explicit, and systematic phonics instruction, in the general education classroom, for early struggling readers.