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R-TAC |
 Welcome to Region 8
R-TAC
We are enthusiastic to share the tremendous
effort being made in Region 8 as it applies to meeting the Key
Assurances of the Reading First initiative. In so doing, this
web site serves many purposes, including acting as a clearinghouse of tools and resources useful for districts implementing a quality reading program. This web site has also been
designed to communicate current or updated legislation, policy
and practices for the California initiative. Lastly, it is a means
of increasing the networking potential between and among stakeholders
in the Region 8 who have invested and continue to invest so much
time, effort and innovation to make the tenets of Reading First
such a positive influence on the reading achievement of students.
With that being said, we welcome your opinions and suggestions on ways we might make this website even more user friendly as well
as more practical and relevant to your current work, whether in the implementation of the Reading First Assurances or in the pursuit
of increasing the reading instruction and achievement of all students.
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C-TAC |
Reading First California Technical Assistance Center
(C-TAC)
The Center, under the California Reading First
plan, provides statewide technical assistance to Reading First
LEAs to fully meet the grant award assurances that were signed
by all the sub-grant recipients. State-provided assessments, online
assessment reporting, and development of professional development
training materials for teachers and site administrators are coordinated
through C-TAC. The Center is also responsible for oversight and
assistance to the Regional Technical Assistance Centers (R-TACs).
In addition, the center also serves as the lead agency with communications
between the California Department of Education and Reading First
LEAs.
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Reading First |
 Reading First is a federal grant program with the purpose of
ensuring all children learn to read well by the end of third grade. California receives federal funding to provide multi-year
sub-grants to LEAs to implement California's approved Reading First Plan. California's Reading First Plan ensures that all the
necessary components to improve reading instruction are available to California's highest need K-3 classrooms.
As required by federal law and California's approved
Reading First Plan, California's standard based adopted reading
instructional materials that utilizes the five essential components
of effective reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics,
vocabulary development, reading fluency, and reading comprehensive
strategies). The Reading First program will allow schools serving
low achieving, low income K-3 students to simultaneously have
scientifically researched based instructional materials, teachers
and principals trained to use those materials, scientifically
researched based assessments aligned to the instructional materials
and the time and expert resources (reading coaches, content experts,
district and state technical assistance) to focus this instruction
on the needs of individual students.
Assurance Statements of Local Education Agency (LEA) and School Site(s) for Reading First Subgrant.
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