School Reading Program

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School Reading Program

• Stephen F. Austin Middle School
• Irving, Texas

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Stephen F. Austin Middle School

• Building Demographics
• Total Students-893
• Hispanic-716 (80.2)
• African American-64 (7.2)
• White-94 (10.5)
• Economically Disadv.- 775 (86.8)
• LEP-293 (32.8)
• Sp. Ed- 95 (10.6)

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Stephen F. Austin Middle School

• 2005 School Accountability Rating Academically
  Acceptable
• 2005 Gold Performance Acknowledgments
• Commended on Reading/ELA
• Commended on Writing
• Commended on Social Studies
• Comparable Improvement Reading/ELA Mathematics

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Components

• Reading Department
• Content Areas
• Advisory period (homeroom)

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Reading Department

• Consistent strategies
• Outside reading requirement
• Accelerated reading program
• TAKS reading classes
• Skills based curriculum
• TAKS based materials

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Use the following checklist to help you when
doing a TAKS reading passage. __________
Prediction written near title __________
Summaries written for EVERY paragraph __________
Questions labeled BOOK or BRAIN __________
Clue words underlined in EVERY question _________
_ Evidence underlined within the
passage __________ Paragraph s written beside
each question stating where the answer was
found. __________ The correct answer
circled __________ The TWO FINGER CHECK when
bubbling
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Library support!!
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Accelerated Reading Program90 Fiction books
have an Accelerated Reading test35 Non Fiction
have an Accelerated Reading test
Library books complimenting the curriculum
Reading clubs, reading aloud, free read, projects
with reading
Audio book with companion book
Bulletin Board displays
Reading IncentivesBluebonnet BooksLone Star
BooksFree Book for all students reading 2 books
the month before TAKSAuthor/Illustrator visit
Summer Reading
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Reading Incentives
Guys Read display
Library open morning/ afternoon
Students read, do home work, and of course talk
Introduce all the different genres through Book
Talks creating an excitement for reading and an
understanding of what genres are.
Teen Read Week
Adventure
Historical
Horror/Suspense
Realistic
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Curriculum and Materials

• Skills Based
• Supported through Literature
• Yearly Scope and Sequence
• Hands-on
• Materials
• Kamico (Developmental and Diagnostic Series)
• Gourmet Curriculum
• TAKS Master

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Book vs. Brain

• Elementary Level Reading
• 70 Book
• 30 Brain

• Exit Level ELA
• 20 Book
• 80 Brain

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Content Areas

• Math, Science, Social Studies, EnglishYou MUST
  be reading teachers also!!!!!

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Just in case you dont believe me

• 2004 History TAKS Test
• Book-25 questions
• Brain-21 questions
• Both- 2 questions
• 39.5- Inference
• 19- Cause/Effect
• 31- details

• 2004 Math 8th TAKS Test
• Book- 22 questions
• Brain- 28 questions
• 32- Inference
• Reading skills must surpass math skills!

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Still dont believe me????

• 2004 7th Writing TAKS test
• Book-27 questions
• Brain- 14 questions
• 28-Evaluation/judgment
• 5- supporting details
• 1 inference question

• 2004 Exit Level Science TAKS test
• Book- 25 questions
• Brain- 30 questions
• 49- Inference
• 16- Cause/Effect
• 22- Math calculations

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Building Wide Training/ Cross Curriculur Units

• Entire Faculty trained on reading strategies
• Teaming
• Same strategies-some adaptations
• Focus on vocabulary development (root words,
  prefixes, suffixes). VOCABULARY MUST BE
  CONSISTENT!!!!

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6 Cs of School Culture for Implementation
Commitment Cooperation Collaboration Curriculum Co
mmunication Coordination
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Students should be doing 90 minutes of ACTUAL
reading in school EVERYDAY!!!
From 7 Strategies of Highly Effective Readers
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Advisory Program

• Silent Reading
• Vocabulary Development
• TAKS based activities

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We can, whenever and wherever we choose,
successfully teach all children whose schooling
is of interest to us. We already know more than
we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must
finally depend on how we feel about the fact we
havent so far.Ron Edmonds