Dominie Overview and SWS Training

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Dominie Overview and SWS Training

• Retta Havird and Sheila Matthews- Kindergarten
• Carolyn Williams and Cheryl Zimmerman- 1st and
  2nd Grade
• Mary Helen Cochran and Robin Vitali- 3rd, 4th and
  5th grade

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The Show Me Book (K)

• Provides information about the students
  understanding of
• Concepts of print
• Letters and words
• Beginning sight words
• Directionality
• Provides information about words/letters the
  student is able to write

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Letter Knowledge Inventory (K-1)

• Provides information about what the child knows
  about letters

• Child says the letter, the sound of the letter,
  or a word that begins with that letter

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Text Reading Level (TRL)

• Helps the teacher analyze and interpret the
  childs oral reading and comprehension strategies
• Allows for progress monitoring
• Provides bridging instructional ideas

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Administering SWS

• BOY, MOY, and EOY sentences (A, B, C)
• Decide grade appropriateness for administration
  whole group, small groups, one-on-one
• Teacher reads through sentence once-students
  listen only
• Teacher reads through sentence second time,
  slowly-students write
• Teacher read through sentence third time-students
  check

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Scoring SWS

• Two scores Spelling and Phonemes (sounds the
  student represented)
• Spelling 1 point for every word spelled
  correctly
• Phonemes add up the number of sounds the student
  represented in that word
• (2) (3) (4) (2) (3) (1) (3)
• My dad loves to fly a kite.
• Mi da lovs tu fy a kit.

Number of phonemes/sounds
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Dominie Stanine Scoring System

• A stanine is a type of scaled score used in many
  norm-referenced standardized tests. There are
  nine stanine units (the term is short for
  "standard nine-point scale"), ranging from 9 to
  1. Typically, stanine scores are interpreted as
  above average (9, 8, 7), average (6, 5, 4), and
  below average (3, 2, 1). Using only nine numbers,
  stanine scoring is usually easier to understand
  than other scoring models.
• Pearson Group