Learning Opportunities

The Reading Readiness Screening Tool and the Right to Read Program have been developed by the Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta to help identify and support children who have reading difficulties in their earliest school years and children whose first language is not English. Even the best students may have reading weaknesses, and the RRST will help to pinpoint those weaknesses in underlying phonological skills and other reading readiness skills.

The Right to Read program is designed to screen all K-1 children for their readiness to read and offers interventions for the areas of weakness that may become an impediment to reading. Children who fail to progress after active involvement in the program may be at risk for a learning disability and may then be flagged in the earliest grades for assessment and support.

Target Audience

K-1 Teachers, Literacy Leads/Coaches, School-based Administrators