John F. Ward Elementary School is committed to excellence in education. The goal of this action research project is to close the gaps of our struggling readers. Teachers will have a deeper understanding of what causes these gaps.
John F. Ward Elementary School is committed to excellence in education. The goal of this action research project is to close the gaps of our struggling readers. Teachers will have a deeper understanding of what causes these gaps.
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John F. Ward Elementary School is committed to excellence in education. The goal of this action research project is to close the gaps of our struggling readers. Teachers will have a deeper understanding of what causes these gaps.
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excellence in education and ensuring all students leave their elementary years with a balanced foundation that prepares them to meet the challenges of their secondary years. Goal: The goal of this action research project is to close the gaps of our struggling readers and for teachers to have a deeper understanding of what causes these gaps and how we can work together to refine our practice to ensure student success.
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Teachers Monitor by develop an discuss and Readers and Arts teachers in 2010 identify their keeping all understandin develop a Writers by grades 3-5 students student’s g of the personal theory Irene Fountas whom are current DRA of learning. & Gay Su below grade scores whom theory of Read and Pinnell level in are struggling learning. discuss reading. readers and Cambourne’s Teachers below grade Conditions of Copies of will also level in one Learning and Cambourne’s document central binder. chapter 1: Conditions of their exiting This binder Developing Learning reading will be kept in Lifelong levels from the literacy Readers and the previous library for Writers year. principal and literacy coach to assess. 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They bring data to assess as a will discuss support how whole learning how to group they group the their guided grouped components reading groups their that were in and strategies students. place. that help Teachers will facilitate a have the deeper opportunity to understanding critique of the text. themselves. Teachers will Teachers will The Art of All Language Dec. Teachers Walk-throughs research and jigsaw ch. 3 in Teaching Arts teachers in will bring will be 2010 develop an The Art of Reading by grades 3-5 evidence of conducted understanding Teaching Lucy Calkins growth from during of the purpose Reading by their below teachers and importance Lucy Calkins to level interactive of interactive discuss how readers. read-aloud read- alouds. we engage our (DRA, times to biggest conferring monitor and strugglers notes, etc.) assess through Teachers understanding interactive will discuss . read-alouds. what strategies have been successful so far in their action research journey. Teachers will Teachers will Teaching for All Language January Teachers Monitor by understand the read and Comprehensio Arts teachers in 2011 will bring continuing to importance of discuss n and Fluency grades 3-5 evidence of keep extended Individual by Irene their conferring reading time Instruction from Fountas & Gay individual notes in a and the use of Teaching for Su Pinnell conferring binder and to anecdotal Comprehensio notes to update the notes as n and Fluency discuss and DRA binder informal by F & P reflect on as with student’s assessment a group on current DRA that drives the ways scores to conversations they used assess for with readers these growth. and decisions anecdotal for future notes to instruction. drive their individual instruction. Teachers will Teachers will Individual All Language Feb. 2011 Teachers Last DRA of continue to trade their reading Arts Teachers in will bring the year will meet once a conferring conferring grades 3-5. evidence of be done by month to notes with their the beginning discuss and another notes. individual of May where reflect on all teacher on a conferring all teachers in teaching different grade notes to this group will strategies level and reflect and chart the discussed this discuss and discuss on growth of year. reflect on the student each of their individual growth. individual student. Where struggling do they take readers to them next with determine this what things information? we have in place are promoting student success to close the gap. Analyze end of Collect and Reading All Language April-May Spring Analyze and the year analyze data. benchmark Arts Teachers in 2011 reading chart growth. reading scores and grades 3-5. benchmarks benchmarks current, end of and current, and DRA data. the year DRA. end of year DRA.