Barb, are you in Wyoming? On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Ron Borchert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Last fall I wrote about our district's early reading intervention review > committee that I am co-chairing. This is an update of the work we have done > so far. The committee watched Linda Dorn's presentation on the Arkansas > model and RTI that is available from the Reading Recovery website. Thank > you to the person on this listserve that recommended it. We found it > helpful. > > The committee also participated in a webinar on the Kennewick, Washington > school district, which was also a recommendation from this listserve. We > also briefly review other intervention programs such as Fountas and > Pinnell's new Leveled Literacy Intervention and the Triumphs intervention > program from McMillan/McGraw-Hill. > > Our next step is to make some site visits, three visits to schools in > Wyoming. One is working on implementing the Arkansas model. The other two > consistently out perform our district on the state test. We are also > visiting Kennewick because we have numerous questions for them. Kennewick > is the district that made the reading goal that 90% of their students would > reach state standards in reading by the end of the fourth grade. They did > this by providing extensive time for direct instruction to students reading > below grade level. > > My question for this group is what extra time do you give to your > struggling readers during the school day. How have you handled staffing and > scheduling? Kennewick says the struggling reader may need at least 100 > extra minutes of direct instruction beyond the core reading instruction each > day. > > Finally, I have a successful intervention to share with you. One of our > elementary schools piloted the program Tune-In to Reading. This is an > online fluency program that has students singing. It claims to make at > least one year's growth in reading in 10 weeks of interventions. Nine out > of the ten students that participated in Tune-In to Reading for 10 weeks, 5 > days a week for 45 minutes at a time showed significant growth. This growth > also transferred to the winter DIBELS benchmark test and the winter MAP > test. The principal was amazed and very pleased at the results! You can go > to the website (google tunein to reading) and check it out. The sales rep > will also set up a web preview for you. These students future progress will > be followed to see if the positive results continue without having the > intervention. > > Thank you to the members of the listserve for being a consistent source of > great information on teaching reading! > > Barb Parry > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
