Purpose of the Texas Literacy Initiative (TLI)
Improve school readiness and success in the areas of language and literacy for disadvantaged students in targeted school districts, including their associated ECE providers, who will use the model of Literacy Lines to implement the Texas State Literacy Plan (TSLP).
Goals of the Texas Literacy Initiative
** Increase the oral language and preliteracy skills of participating preschool children.
** Improve the performance of participating K-2 students on early reading assessments.
** Increase the percentage of participating students who meet or exceed proficiency on the state English language arts assessments in grades 3 through 12.
** Increase the use of data and data analysis to inform all decision making in participating districts, campuses, classrooms, and early learning settings.
** Increase the implementation of effective literacy instruction through Literacy Lines.
What is the Texas State Literacy Plan?
The goal of the Texas State
Literacy Plan is to ensure that every Texas child is strategically prepared for
the literacy demands of college and/or career by high school graduation. To
achieve this goal, the plan centers on the integration and alignment of early
language and pre-literacy skills for age 0 to school entry and on reading and
writing instruction for students in grades K-12. The TSLP is a framework of six
essential components: Leadership, Assessment, Standards-based Instruction,
Effective Instructional Framework, Reporting and Accountability and
Sustainability (LASERS).
What is a Literacy Line?
"A Literacy Line is a vertical collaborative among feeder-pattern campuses within a
Local Education Agency (LEA) or among partnering eligible LEAs (including
prekindergarten, elementary, middle, and high schools) and their associated
Early Childhood Education providers, which may include, among others, Early Head
Start, Head Start, public or private or nonprofit licensed child care providers,
and public prekindergarten programs."