Title I and Reading Recovery

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Title I and Reading Recovery

• By
• Lisa Johnson
• March 13, 2008

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What is Title I?

• Small group pull out
• Usually 4 - 6 days out of the cycle
• 15 - 20 minutes per session
• 3 - 5 students per group
• Supports classroom teaching

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How do students qualify?

• Teacher recommendation
• DIBELS scores
• Rigby Benchmark tests
• IRI - Informal Reading Inventory

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How long do they stay in the program?

• They stay in as long as they need extra
  assistance in reading skills
• OR
• Until there are more students with a greater need
  than they have
• OR
• Until parents dont want them in anymore

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FYI

• Title I is NOT special education.
• Students have to qualify each year - they are not
  automatically in just because they were last
  year.
• Parents can accept or deny the service.
• There is a parent/student/teacher compact that
  has to be signed.

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Questions about Title I?

• Contact Lisa Johnson -
• School - 923-2831
• Email - ljohnson_at_garner.k12.ia.us

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Reading Recovery

• First grade program but start to be identified in
  Kindergarten

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What is it?

• 12 - 20 week series of lessons
• 30 minutes every day
• One-on-one
• Each lesson works on fluency, accuracy,
  comprehension, and decoding strategies in
  familiar reading, new reading, letter work, and
  writing
• Serves four kids per 20 week session, average of
  eight per year

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What training does the teacher have?

• Seven hours of graduate credit
• One full year of training - three hours per week
• Continuing Contact - two graduate credit hours
  per year required - one day long meeting per
  month (for the rest of your life!)
• Behind the Glass sessions

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What assessment is used?

• Six part test called the Observation Survey (OS)
• Includes letter identification, sight word test,
  concepts about print, vocabulary writing,
  dictation, and text level reading
• Teacher ranking of class
• Other needs assessment (DIBELS)

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How do students qualify?

• All students are given the observation survey (or
  at least part of it) in the spring of their
  Kindergarten year.
• The lowest scoring 12 students are given the
  whole OS in the fall of 1st grade.
• Lowest four in reading recovery, others in Title
  I
• Title students and teacher recommended students
  tested for 2nd round

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What happens when lessons are over?

• Discontinued - Have met the average of the class
  and no further support is needed
• Recommended - May be recommended for Title I
  support or Special Education testing

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Questions about Reading Recovery?

• Contact Lisa Johnson
• School - 923-2831
• Email - ljohnson_at_garner.k12.ia.us