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Comprehensive ELG School Leadership Teams (SLTs) are required to attend the virtual 2024 ELG Conference. If there’s a conflict for your SLT, please email us as soon as possible. 


Announcement:

The Cohort 7 Comprehensive Early Literacy Grant application window has now closed. The Application Process Timeline provides more information on the next phase of this grant. 


 Benefits of the Comprehensive ELG Program

The program is designed to distribute funds to local education providers, including school districts, BOCES, and district charter schools or Institute Charter Schools, to ensure the essential components of reading instruction are embedded into all elements of the primary, K-3 teaching structures in all schools, including universal and targeted and intensive instructional interventions, to assist all students in achieving reading competency.

Through the Comprehensive ELG Program, the Colorado Department of Education:

  • Assists grantees in establishing instructional systems based on Scientifically Based Reading Research to improve the quality of reading instruction for all K – 3 students.
  • Helps schools implement a multi-tiered support system to reduce the number of students reading below grade level.
  • Provides professional development to principals, teachers and intervention teachers on effective instructional practices and the underlying teaching infrastructures to improve reading achievement among K – 3 students.
  • Assists grantees in administering and interpreting approved interim and diagnostic assessments pursuant to the READ Act.
  • Supports implementation of school-wide literacy programs as well as programs designed for targeted and intensive instructional interventions.
  • Assists grantees with testing schedules and interpreting assessment data.

Allowable Uses of Funds

Funding must support the grantee’s K-3 literacy program: Funds may be used for activities, staff, materials, and other purchases that help embed the essential components of reading instruction into all elements of the K-3 teaching structures in schools. Funds may only supplement and not supplant any moneys currently used for this purpose.

Uses that will be considered for funding include, but are not limited to:


Active Comprehensive ELG Grantees

Comprehensive ELG Awardees


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For questions, please contact the READ Act ELG Team