R277-406-2. Definitions

  (1) "Benchmark reading assessment" means the Acadience Reading assessment that:

  (a) is given three times each year;

  (b) gives teachers information to:

  (i) plan appropriate instruction; and

  (ii) evaluate the effects of instruction; and

  (c) provides data about the extent to which students are prepared to be successful on an end of year criterion referenced test.

  (2) "Evidence-based" means a strategy that has demonstrated a statistically significant effect on improving student outcomes.

  (3) "Parental notification requirements" means notice by any reasonable means, including electronic notice, notice by telephone, written notice, or personal notice.

  (4) "Plan" means the literacy proficiency improvement plan required in the Early Literacy Program that is submitted by a public school district or a charter school, as required in Subsection 53F-2-503(4).

  (5) "Program money" means the same as that term is defined in Section 53F-2-503.

  (6) "Reading below grade level" means that a student:

  (a) performs below the benchmark score on the benchmark reading assessment; and

  (b) requires additional instruction beyond that provided to typically-developing peers in order to close the gap between the student's current level of reading achievement and that expected of all students in that grade.

  (7) "Reading remediation interventions" means reading instruction or reading activities, or both, given to students in addition to their regular reading instruction, during another time in the school day, outside regular instructional time, or in the summer, which is focused on specific needs as identified by reliable and valid assessments.

  (8) "Utah eTranscript and Record Exchange" or "UTREx" means the same as that term is defined in Section R277-404-2.