The application must contain an assurance that the Governor of the State, in consultation with the State educational agency, has established the required reading and literacy partnership. The application must also a description of how such partnership assisted in the development of the State plan;

1. will be involved in advising on the selection of Local Reading Improvement and Tutorial Assistance; and

2. will assist in the oversight and evaluation of the subgrantees

Each application must contain a description of the following:

1. How the State educational agency will ensure that professional development activities related to reading instruction and provided under this part are (a) coordinated with other State and local level funds and used effectively to improve instructional practices for reading and (b) based on scientifically based reading research.

2. How the activities assisted under this part will address the needs of teachers and other instructional staff, and will effectively teach students to read.

3. The extent to which the activities will prepare teachers in all the major components of reading instruction (including phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, fluency, and reading comprehension)

4. How the State educational agency will use technology to enhance reading and literacy professional development activities for teachers, as appropriate.

5. How parents can participate in literacy-related activities assisted under this part to enhance their children?s reading.

6. How subgrants made by the State educational agency will meet the requirement of the law, including how the State educational agency will ensure that subgrantees will use practices based on scientifically based reading research.

7. How the State educational agency will, to the extent practicable, make grants to subgrantees in both rural and urban areas.

Each application must contain an assurance that each local educational agency to which the State educational agency makes a subgrant—

1. Will provide professional development for the classroom teacher and other appropriate instructional staff on the teaching of reading based on scientifically based reading research.

2. Will provide family literacy services based on programs such as the Even Start family literacy model authorized under part B of title I, to enable parents to be their child?s first and most important teacher.

3. Will carry out programs to assist those kindergarten students who are not ready for the transition to first grade, particularly students experiencing difficulty with reading skills; and iii)will use supervised individuals (including tutors), who have been appropriately trained using scientifically based reading research, to provide additional support, before school, after school, on weekends, during noninstructional periods of the school day, or during the summer, for children preparing to enter kindergarten and students in kindergarten through grade 3 who are experiencing difficulty reading.

Each application must contain an assurance that instruction in reading will be provided to children with reading difficulties who—

Each application must contain a description of how the State educational agency will build on, and promote coordination among, literacy programs in the State (including federally funded programs such as the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), in order to increase--

1. The effectiveness of the programs in improving reading for adults and children and to avoid duplication of the efforts of the programs;

2. Will promote reading and library programs that provide access to engaging reading material;

3. Will make eligible local educational agencies the availability of Local Reading Improvement and Tutorial Assistance Subgrants; and

4. Will assess and evaluate, on a regular basis, local educational agency activities supported by the Reading Excellence Act.

SEA must include:

1. A copy of the proposed LEA subgrant application
2. A description of the SEA's review process, including selection criteria

Assurance- Non-Construction Program Assurances

Remember to send with a return request receipt.