Welcome Thoreau Park

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Welcome! Thoreau Park Renwood Parents to our
Annual Title 1 Open House!
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Introducing
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Mr. Olexa

• 4th year at Thoreau Park but 6th year teaching in
  Parma
• Undergraduate Degree from Cleveland State
  University
• Masters Degree from Marygrove College
• He loves comic books, his wife Liz, coffee!

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Mrs. Evans

• 2nd year at Thoreau Park
• Teaching morning Title 1 and afternoon 3rd grade
• Undergraduate degree from Baldwin Wallace
• Currently attending Baldwin Wallace to attain
  Masters Degree
• Mrs. Evans loves her husband Sean, dog Butch, and
  Mexican food.

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Ms. Mazzola

• 2nd year in Parma
• Teaching morning Title 1 at Renwood and afternoon
  Title 1 at Thoreau Park
• Undergraduate Degree from Kent State University
• Currently working on Masters Degree at Cleveland
  State University
• Ms. Mazzola loves traveling and spending time
  with her family friends.

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Frequently Asked Questionsabout Title 1
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What is Title I?

• Largest federal aid program in the United States
• It is short for Title I of the Elementary and
  Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by
  the Hawkins Stafford Elementary and Secondary
  Improvement Amendments of 1988.
• Formerly know as Chapter I
• Title I became the new name of the program under
  Improving Americas Schools Act of 1995.

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What is the purpose of Title I?

• Language Arts and Math Focus
• Additional instruction and support
• Overall goal help children succeed and overcome
  areas of difficulty.

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How are children selected for Title I?

• Regular classroom teacher
• Teacher from the preceding year
• Standardized Tests, like the OAT
• Title I screening measurement (DIBELS)
• Many times, if children were in Title I the
  previous year, they may continue with the program
  throughout the following year.

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Is Title I special education?

• Title I is NOT special education.
• It simply reinforces the same skills already
  being taught in the regular education classroom.
• Some parents are concerned with their children
  having difficulties. Children do no learn to
  walk, talk, or ride a bicycle at exactly the same
  age or in the same way. Likewise, children do not
  all learn in the same way, nor do they master
  certain skills at the same time.
• Title I provides children with individual help
  that may enable them to catch up.

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How does Title I funding affect our school?

• Federal funding determines the number of schools
  assisted, and the number of people staffed to
  teach Title I, in a school district.

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Are children required to participate in Title I?

• Children are not required to participate in Title
  I.
• Parental permission required

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How does the Title I pullout program affect your
child?

• Daily 30-40 minute
• Small group (5-6 students per group)
• Intense instructional periods
• Least intrusive to regular classroom activities
  and special activities or events
• Children do NOT miss classes such as physical
  education, music, art, or library.

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DIBELS

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills
• Title 1 screening measure
• Predictor of literacy success
• Administered 3x a year to each student grade K-3
• Depending on the test, students are scored as
  follows
• At Risk, Some Risk, or Low Risk
• Deficit, Emerging, or Established
• Students who scores At Risk or Deficit typically
  receive Title 1 services
• All assessments are 1 minute long

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DIBELS

• Kindergarten
• Letter Naming Fluency (can the student identify
  upper lower case letters out of order)
• Initial Sound Fluency (can the student hear or
  identify the first sound in a word)
• Phoneme Segmentation (can the student hear sounds
  in words)
• Nonsense Words (can the student match sounds to
  letters and say them as a word)

• First Grade
• Letter Naming Fluency (can the student identify
  upper lower case letters out of order)
• Phoneme Segmentation (can the student hear sounds
  in words)
• Nonsense Words (can the student match sounds to
  letters and say them as a word)
• Oral Reading Fluency (can the students read a
  passage fluently and with out errors)

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• Second Grade
• Nonsense Words (can the student match sounds to
  letters and say them as a word)
• Oral Reading Fluency (can the students read a
  passage fluently and with out errors)

• Third Grade
• Oral Reading Fluency (can the students read a
  passage fluently and with out errors)

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Some Typical Activities for(But not limited to)
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Kindergarten Using Early Reading Intervention
Program

• Phonological Awareness
• Alphabetic Principle
• Introduce reintroduce the new letter sounds
• Listening for new sound

• Writing Spelling
• Practice writing new letters
• Review writing previous letters
• Matching letters to pictures words
• Rhyming games

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First Grade

• Book/Story of the Week
• Picture walk, echo reading, buddy read
• Phonics skills (short long vowels, word
  families)
• Comprehension (predictions, summarizing,
  retelling)
• Working with Words
• Making words with letter cards
• Word sorts, rhyming words, word endings, blends

• Word Wall
• Review high frequency words
• Fluency games recognition
• Writing
• Proper sentence formation
• Using high frequency words
• Writing complete sentences

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Second Third Grades

• Book/Story of the Week
• Picture walk, echo reading, buddy read
• Phonics skills (short long vowels, word
  families)
• Comprehension (predictions, summarizing,
  retelling)
• Vocabulary activities
• Working with Words
• Making words with letter cards
• Word sorts, rhyming words, word endings, blends

• Word Wall
• Review high frequency words
• Fluency games recognition
• Writing
• Proper sentence formation
• Using high frequency words
• Writing complete sentences
• Paragraph Writing

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Progress Reports

• Issued
• -Each quarter for grades 1-3
• -Each semester for Kindergarten
• Standards Based
• Not everything is assessed each grading period
• Marks given
• X Needs improvement
• Improving
• Meets Expectations
• Many students receive X or

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Family Involvement!

• Nightly reading
• Routine time/area for your child to read and
  study
• Family activities throughout the year

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Thank you!

• Please remember to sign in under the appropriate
  school!