Reading Intervention Program

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Reading Intervention Program
Parent Information Meeting November 3, 2008
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Romonas Reading Team

• Kate Hood-Reading Specialist
• Tessa Johnson-Reading Assistant
• Leslie Upson-Reading Specialist, Math
  Intervention
• Amanda Fisher-LBS
• Elisabeth Domenico-LBS

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Reading Intervention Goals

• To improve each childs reading performance
• To supplement the K-4 district reading program
• To be a resource to teachers and parents

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Qualifications for Reading Services

• All students are screened three times per year
  (September, January and May)
• Students qualify for the reading program based on
  local and national norms

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Kindergarten Program

• The following are used to screen kindergarteners
• DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic
  Early Literacy Skills)
• Initial Sound Fluency
• Letter Naming Fluency
• Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
• Nonsense Word Fluency

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Frequency of Kindergarten Sessions

• Services begin in October
• Small group setting (2-6 students)
• 2-5 times a week for twenty to thirty minutes

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Kindergarten Instructional Focus

• Letter-Sound identification and association
• Phonemic awareness skills
• Writing
• Concept of word
• Choral reading experiences

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1st Grade Program

• The following measures are used to screen first
  graders
• DIBELS (Dynamic Indicators of Basic
  Early Literacy Skills)
• ISEL (Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy)
• Alphabet Recognition Upper and Lower Case
• Story Listening Comprehension and Vocabulary
• Phonemic Awareness Initial Consonant
• One-to-One Matching and Word Naming
• Letter Sounds
• Developmental Spelling
• Word Recognition
• CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement)

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Frequency of 1st Grade Sessions

• Services are from October-May
• Small group setting (2-4 students)
• 3-5 times a week for thirty minutes

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1st Grade Instructional Focus

• Study word families and decoding
• Build sight word bank
• Teach reading strategies
• Practice writing skills
• Build comprehension
• Progress Monitoring

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2nd-4th Grade Programs

• The following measures are used to screen second,
  third and fourth graders
• CBM (words per minute)
• Scantron (reading comprehension)

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Frequency of 2nd-4th Grade Sessions

• Services are from October-May
• Small group setting of 2-4 students
• 3-5 times a week for thirty minutes

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2nd-4th Grade Instructional Focus

• Fluency
• Decoding (Word Study)
• Maintain reading strategies
• Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Writing
• Progress monitoring

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Parent Involvement

• Weekly Home Folder
• Activities to reinforce our instruction
• Daily practice
• Improves fluency
• Increases vocabulary

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Title 1 Funding

• Wilmette 39 Reading Intervention Program is
  partially funded by Title 1 federal funds.
• Title 1 Compact
• Parent Input

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Thank you for coming!