south fayette township school district
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South Fayette Township School District
Literacy Proficiency for All Students
Partnership with the Avonworth School District
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Partner Leaders
South Fayette Township School District
Dr. Bille Rondinelli, Superintendent
Dr. Michael Loughead, Assistant Superintendent
Laurie Gray, Elementary School Principal
Avonworth School District
Dr. Tom Ralston, Superintendent
Dr. Darlene Tartaglione, Elementary School Principal
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Demographics – South Fayette
• Located about 20 minutes outside of Pittsburgh in Southwestern PA
• Growing school district
• One elementary school K-2 with an enrollment of 699 students
• One intermediate school 3-5 with an enrollment of 749 students
• District on one campus
• Free-reduced lunch – 13.6% in the elementary
• Free-reduced lunch – 12% in the intermediate
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Research Indicates
If a child is not reading on level by grade 3, and there is no intervention, the child has only a 1 in 8 chance of ever becoming a proficient reader!
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Board Resolution
In 2002, the South Fayette Board of School Directors passed a resolution that by age 10, all
students would be reading on grade level.
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Brutal Facts of 2002! • In elementary school, we spent the most
instructional time in reading (about ½ of the day)
• We spent the most money on reading each year including all Title I funds
• We had the most support staff for reading
• Most referrals were because of a child’s lack of reading achievement
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Reading PSSA 2003
• 78% of the 3rd grade students scored
proficient or advanced on the reading PSSA
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Goal - Increase Student Achievement – HOW?
• All faculty members who teach reading will implement explicit, research based reading instruction
• Focus on the grade level eligible content
• Use data to drive instruction
• Meet weekly in grade level teams to focus on reading achievement
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K-3 Reading Initiative 2002-2003 School Year
Building a Foundation
• 80 hours on-line modules that taught research based reading strategies
• Teachers did this before and after school
• 20 elementary teachers and the building principal participated
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Time and Money Commitment 2003-2007
• Reading Specialists received intensive reading training through the AIU Reading Achievement Center (RAC)
• Focused on research based techniques for teaching reading
• Reading Specialists became our trainers
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Time and Money Commitment 2003-2007
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• Monthly two hour delay days for staff development with a focus on reading instruction
• Weekly team meetings
• Ongoing assessment and progress monitoring of all students
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Improved Our Language Arts Program
• Revised language arts curriculum
• Adopted new materials
• Changed the sequence of skills
• Rewrote assessments
• Ongoing, focused training for faculty
• Implemented Reading Achievement
• Classrooms
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2008 Reading PSSA Significant Growth!
• 95% of 3rd grade students scored proficient or advanced on the reading PSSA
• 96% of 4th grade students scored proficient or advanced on the reading PSSA.
• 4th grade 1st in reading in the state and Allegheny County.
• * 5th grade was part of the • middle school
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Best Practice -
Reading Instruction
• Move students to independence as soon as possible
• Engage kindergarten students in academic activities that facilitate early reading
• Decoding instruction is essential
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Best Practice – Reading Instruction
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• Comprehension should be addressed along with decoding
• Students should have opportunities to read a lot of meaningful texts in rich, literate classrooms
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Phonemic Awareness
• Understanding that the sounds of spoken language work together to make words.
• Ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in words.
• Can be done in the dark (auditory not visual)
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A Phonics Program Should Include:
• Explicit instruction – Sounds are produced in isolation and connected
with printed letters
– Teach the rules
• Systematic instruction – Research shows that letters and sounds should
be introduced according to a definite sequence
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A Phonics Program Should Include:
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• Strategies that require decoding from the beginning through the end of the word
• Use of decodable texts to reinforce decoding
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Purpose of Word Building
• Supports decoding
• Students attend to letter – sound correspondence and focus attention on every letter
• Students cumulative blend words
• Sequences are developed to discriminate between vowels
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Word Building Activity
• Build and read the words (decoding)
• Speed round (decoding)
• Silly questions (decoding)
• Dictation (encoding)
• Reinforce by reading decodable text
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Vocabulary
• Vocabulary knowledge refers to the range and depth of word meanings known and recognized in print
• Vocabulary knowledge is highly correlated with reading comprehension
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The Goal of Vocabulary Instruction
• Expose students to words that: – Are sophisticated and otherwise
unknown
– Are vigorously expressive
– Are conceptually universal
– Enhance the thematic and conceptual understanding of the text
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Vocabulary Instruction • Choose words that are above, not
below the students • Use imagery • Give multiple examples • Provide many different contexts • Model enthusiasm and passion for
rich words
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Fluency
• Ability to read smoothly, easily, and readily with freedom from word recognition problems.
• Decoding print accurately and effortlessly enables students to read for meaning.
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Fluency (continued)
• Fluent readers focus their attention on making connections among ideas in text.
• Less fluent readers must focus their attention on decoding and assessing the meaning of individual words.
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Ways to Develop Fluency
• Model fluent reading
• Choral reading
• Echo reading
• Repeated readings of text
• Tracking
• Fluency builders and fluency phrases
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Fluency Benchmarks
Fluency rates at the end of the year
• First grade 70 wpm
• Second grade 90 wpm
• Third Grade 120 wpm
• Fourth Grade 150 wpm
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Comprehension
• There is a high correlation between words known and comprehension success
• Children must be fluent readers to comprehend
• Many students have difficulty constructing meaning from text
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Understanding Involves • Making connections between and among
ideas
• Deciding what is important and what isn’t
• Infer what the author is doing and why
• Paraphrase and summarize
• Reconciling prior knowledge to what is newly learned
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Better Questioning • What’s the author trying to say? • What’s this all about? • How does that connect to what we already
know? • What does the author want us to know
from this? • What do we know about the character,
place, time, etc.?
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Curriculum • Phonemic Awareness (K-2)
• Decoding (K-5)
• Spelling (K-5)
• Vocabulary (K-5)
• Fluency (1-5)
• Comprehension (K-5)
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Resources & Strategies
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• HM Harcourt Journeys
• Created word building sequences
• Created syllaseach sequences
• Wrote additional decodable text
• Robust vocabulary PowerPoints implementing Isabel Beck’s strategies
• Text Talk
• Questioning the Author
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• Scrolling
• Leveled readers
• Accelerated Reader Program
• Read Naturally & fluency builders
• Literature circles
• Think Aloud
• Reading response journals
• Text-based writing & process writing
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Assessments • Selection tests & theme tests
• Cold reads
• Weekly progress monitoring
• Study Island Benchmark Tests
• Text dependents analysis
• Spelling tests
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Interventions
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Kindergarten Express
– 2 classes of 15 children (AM and PM)
– Reading Specialist and paraeducator
– Students receive intensive literacy instruction in groups of 5 students
– Incorporates RAC strategies with a focus on word building, Text Talk, robust vocabulary, writing, and phonemic awareness activities
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Reading Achievement Classrooms
1st Grade – 5th Grade
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Structure of the Reading Achievement Classrooms
• 18 students divided into three groups of 6 students
• 40 minute rotations
• Receive intensive reading instruction for the entire language arts block
• Same curriculum and pacing as the grade level
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Instruction • Phonics – word lines, word building &
syllasearch
• Fluency – HM Harcourt fluency builders, Intervention Readers, and Read Naturally
• Vocabulary – HM Harcourt Journeys, skills PowerPoint, & tier 2 words
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Instruction (continued)
• Comprehension – students are taught comprehension strategies through various fiction and nonfiction text
• Grammar
• Writing – reading prompts, text dependent analysis, informational, personal narratives, and expository
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Three Groups • Classroom teacher – vocabulary, comprehension,
leveled readers, writing, & grammar
• Reading Specialist – phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, spelling, & fluency
• Independent Group or Paraeducator – independent
practice, decodable text, fluency, spelling, vocabulary, and Study Island
• Whole Group – writing and grammar
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2014 Reading PSSA • 94% of 3rd grade students scored
proficient or advanced on the reading PSSA
• 97% of 4th grade students scored proficient or advanced on the reading PSSA
• 91% of 5th grade students scored proficient or advanced on the reading PSSA
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Partnership Plan • January through May
• Schedule two monthly dates for staff development (K-2 primary teachers and 3-5 elementary teachers)
• Alternate training locations between Avonworth School District and South Fayette Township School District
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Partnership Plan (continued)
• Staff development provided by Sari Brecosky, Reading Achievement Center
• Staff development provided by regional reading consultants
• Videotape teachers implementing strategies and post on the SAS website
• Share staff development reading modules with Avonworth School District
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Partnership Plan (continued)
• Schedule classroom visits between both schools, so teachers can observe other teachers implementing best practices
• Key instructional leaders from both districts will be involved throughout the entire process
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Our Future • We need to stick with what we have
learned about reading instruction to get results!
• Progress is not just about moving forward, it is about growing and evolving
• Remember that no matter how dramatic the end result, the good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop….
• Celebrate milestones
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Questions