Bill Number: S.B. 1318

            Boyer Floor Amendment

            Reference to: printed bill

            Amendment drafted by: Laura Benitez

 

 

1.    Requires the Arizona Department of Education to develop the proposed dyslexia plan by December 31, 2019.

2.    Specifies that training opportunities relating to dyslexia must enable teachers to implement structured literacy instruction and adds that the instruction must be multisensory.

3.    Adds phonemic awareness, nonsense word repetition and sound symbol recognition to the factors that must be included in the screening tests.

 

Fifty-fourth Legislature                                                    Boyer

First Regular Session                                                   S.B. 1318

 

BOYER FLOOR AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1318

(Reference to printed bill)

 

Page 1, line 23 after “implement” insert “structured literacy”

Line 24, after “explicit” insert “, multisensory”

Line 26, after the period insert "On or before december 31, 2019,"

Line 39, after "phonological" insert "and phonemic"

Between lines 41 and 42, insert:

"(d) nonsense word repetition.

(e) sound symbol recognition."

Reletter to conform

Amend title to conform

 

 

PAUL BOYER

 

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02/28/2019

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