B. The department of education shall develop a dyslexia screening plan that meets all of the following requirements:

1. 1. Ensures that within forty-five calendar days after the beginning of each school year or within forty-five calendar days after a student enrollment occurs after the first day of school, every student who is enrolled in a kindergarten program or grade one in a public school in this state is screened for indicators of dyslexia.
2. 2. Provides guidance for notifications sent by public schools to parents of students who are identified as having indicators of dyslexia based on a screening for indicators.
3. 3. Is developed collaboratively with the dyslexia specialist for the department designated pursuant to section 15-211, and other experts on dyslexia, including representatives in this state of an international organization on dyslexia.

4. 4. Ensures that screening for indicators of dyslexia includes the following:

   1. (a) Phonological and phonemic awareness.
   2. (b) Rapid naming skills.
   3. (c) Correspondence between sounds and letters.
   4. (d) Nonsense word fluency.
   5. (e) Sound symbol recognition.

J. For the purposes of this section:

1. 1. "Essential components of reading instruction" means explicit and systematic instruction in the following:

   1. (a) Phonological awareness, including phonemic awareness.
   2. (b) Phonics encoding and decoding.
   3. (c) Vocabulary development.
   4. (d) Reading fluency as demonstrated by automatic reading of text.
   5. (e) Reading comprehension of written text.
   6. (f) Written and oral expression, including spelling and handwriting.

2. 2. "Evidence-based reading research" means research that demonstrates either:

   1. (a) A statistically significant effect on improving student outcomes or other relevant outcomes based on either:

      1. (i) Strong evidence from at least one well-designed and well-implemented experimental study.
      2. (ii) Moderate evidence from at least one well-designed and well-implemented quasi-experimental study.
      3. (iii) Promising evidence from at least one well-designed and well-implemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias.
   2. (b) A rationale based on high-quality research findings or positive evaluation that an activity, strategy or intervention is likely to improve student outcomes or other relevant outcomes and that includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of these activities, strategies or interventions.

3. 3. "Reading" means a complex system of deriving meaning from written text that requires all of the following:

   1. (a) The skills and knowledge to understand how phonemes or speech sounds are connected to written text.
   2. (b) The ability to decode unfamiliar words.
   3. (c) The ability to read fluently.
   4. (d) Sufficient background information and vocabulary to foster reading comprehension.
   5. (e) The development of appropriate active strategies to construct meaning from written text.
   6. (f) The development and maintenance of a motivation to read.