Yes, I am in Wyoming.
Barb
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From: "Beverlee Paul" <[email protected]>
To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group"
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Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] reading interventions
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
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