Michigan's K-12 Literacy and Dyslexia Law
Public Act 146 Dyslexia Links:
MAISA
Michigan Department of Education
These documents were developed by the Early Literacy Task Force, a subcommittee of the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators (MAISA) General Education Leadership Network (GELN), which represents Michigan's 56 Intermediate School Districts. Research suggests that each of these ten practices can have a positive impact on literacy development.
Pre-K Literacy Essentials
K-3 Literacy Essentials
Grade 4-5 Literacy Essentials
Essential School-Wide and Center Practices in Literacy
Essential Coaching Practices for Elementary Literacy
Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (MLPP)
The MLPP is a diagnostic tool for teachers to document and explain what they know about a child's literacy learning and performance levels.
The assessments that allow the teacher to dig deeper into what children understand about literacy and how they process text are:
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Phonemic Awareness
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Concepts of Print
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Known Words
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Letter/Sound Identification
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Hearing and Recording Sounds
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Sight Word/Decodable Words Lists
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Spelling
These assessments go beyond a universal screener to provide a context of what a student’s literacy strengths and weaknesses are.
M-Step Practice Assessments
We have taken M-Step practice assessments and converted them to include additional tasks. For example, if the M-Step assessment requires an argumentative task, we have converted the assessment to require an information task. This will allow students to use the same texts for multiple purposes.