District of Columbia Code Division VI. Education, Libraries, and Cultural Institutions. § 38-2581.02. Office of the State Superintendent of Education responsibilities.

(A) Understand and recognize reading difficulties;

(B) Screen for reading difficulties; and

(C) Implement instruction in the general education classroom, or during reading intervention, that is systemic, cumulative, explicit, diagnostic, multi-sensory, and evidence-based to meet the educational needs of students with reading difficulties.

(A) Phonological awareness;

(B) Rapid naming skills;

(C) Correspondence between sounds and letters; and

(D) Decoding; and

(A) How to identify if a student has one or more reading difficulties, including how to distinguish whether an English language learner's reading issue is due to a reading difficulty or is associated with learning English as a second language;

(B) Proper protocols and procedures for screening students for potential reading difficulties; and

(C) Specialized, multi-tiered remediation and intervention instruction that is grounded in science-based reading instruction, intended for a general education setting and designed to support students who are identified as being at risk of having reading difficulties.