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Action Step
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Person(s)
Responsible
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Timeline:
Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Star Reading Levels
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Jones
Clark
Burbridge
Ros
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September
(baseline)
May
(ending level)
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STAR test
Computer
Time to test
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Test Results
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Weekly Trips to the library for all sixth graders
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Manny (supervisor)
Jones
Clark
Burbridge
Ros
Polin
Mrs. Mintz
(librarian)
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September
thru
May
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Time
Access to the library
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Student record of how often they were visiting the
library, # of books checked out for the year
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Support of reading on a daily basis by all core teachers
also all teachers will incorporate the reading of informational texts into
their class.
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Jones
Clark
Burbridge
Ros
Polin
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September thru May
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Time
Books
Effort on teachers to consistently remind students of
the fact they need to read when they finish early
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Students will be reading books in all classes.
Textbooks will be used in all core classes.
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Accelerated Reader
Print outs to show progress of student reading
points/words read
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Jones
Clark
Burbridge
Ros
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September thru May
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Computer
Accelerated Reader program
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Data from Accelerated Reader
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Library record of the number of books a student checked
out throughout the year
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Mrs. Mintz
(librarian)
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September thru May
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Computer
Library software
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Data on sixth grade students and the number of texts
they checked out
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Book It
Certificates
Honor Roll Award
Used as a motivational tool to increase student
participation in the program
* monitoring progress of goals
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Dr. Raffiee
Jones
Clark
Burbridge
Ros
Polin
Mrs. Mintz
Patty (office staff)
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October thru May
4 Quarter Awards
Nov. 6th 10 am
Feb. 5th 5 pm
April 16th 10 am
May 22nd 5 pm
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Computer
Accelerated Reader program
Book It Certificates
Accelerated Reader Awards for Honor Roll (all four
quarters)
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Data from Accelerated Reader
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How long have you all been using AR? You know that you can pull some pretty incredible reports for tracking student progress out of there, right? Especially if you get the reading teachers on board with differentiating students' reading point goals, average book level goals, and certification levels. If you set all of that up each six weeks, you can pull a diagnostic report that will let you see how close kids came to their point goals, what their average percent correct on quizzes was, the approximate number of minutes per day the system calculates that they must have read (given their book level, length, and the number of days between tests, etc.). You can pull a Word Count list (we use this one to bring in all the kids who've read 1 million words or more during the year for a Millionaires' Club Party in the library). You can look at a child's quiz history to see what kinds of books they've been successful with and where they've fallen down. It goes on. And all of that is not even to mention STAR. If you pull the STAR data (especially if you are using it weekly to monitor progress on your struggling readers) you can pull some pretty rich graphs of how their progress measures up compared to the expected level of growth. Oh, and you asked how many words in a year the average sixth grader should read on with a ZPD of 3.0 to 4.0...that would depend on how much dedicated silent reading time you offer the children each day. Maybe we could discuss this on FB or Google+ or just by email to nail down an approximate number. I'll tell you how we calculate minutes per day on our campus, and you can go from there.
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ReplyDeleteThis is my first year with AR
I am a math teacher
However, we are trying to fully implement that reading takes place in all classes not just the RLA room.
Our school has had it forever but wasn't fully embracing it.
I like the idea of the Millionaires Club that sounds super cool
We don't give our kids any time in school to read unless they finish their work early.
I am not on FB
Here is my email though
cros@sanjacinto.k12.ca.us
Thanks so much for your time
It is truly appreciated.
Colleen, I think this is a wonderful topic to research. Reading is so important. I do not have experience working as a teacher, so I can't give much advice with the topic itself. But, I can comment on the action plan. I think your setup is good. It's easy to follow and you have clear goals. I have one question, is item #2 and #5 the same?
ReplyDeleteWow, Farley has some great knowledge of this program. Sounds like he will be able to help tremendously with data collection. It's awesome the AR program can be set up to do the tracking you need.
I love the incentives given to the students for reading. The Millionaire's Club is also a cool idea. What about teachers? Will they get incentives, especially those outside of the reading classes?
I think it's awesome your school is implementing this program campus wide and not relying on the reading classes to teach reading. It's important for students to get reinforcement of the importance of reading in all subjects, even math. :)
Good luck with your journey! Keep us posted. :)
No #2 and #5 are not the same one is weekly trips to the library which is a teachers job to get them there this is a big increase from last year where they only got to go one every two weeks or sometimes even once a month.
Delete#5 is at the end of the year I am going to have the librarian use the software to print out the number of books the students have checked out over the course of the year.
Thanks for the comments appreciated.
I think that its a great idea that you are implementing this program on your campus. Last year our school encouraged the students to use more our AR program. Our principal had incentives for the class with more points, and individuals with most points per grade level. Teachers started noticing that students wanted to go to the library more often and were eager to read more. He even set a system where the student with the most points from each grade level would win a Kindle of course these was done with the help from our PTO committee. Students were constantly checking their points. Every 2 weeks it was announced as to how many points each grade level had and a total of the whole school. It was a great success.
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