In 2012, the Colorado Legislature passed the “Reading to Ensure Academic Development” Act (HB12-1238), which became known as the READ ACT. Key features of the act involved teaching Foundational Reading Skills or the Science of Teaching Reading including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, fluency and reading comprehension.
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