WELCOME PARENTS!

Please sign in and take handouts on the table!

Title I Parent MeetingOctober 17th & 19th , 2011

Title I Meeting Agenda Welcome/Introductions What is Title I support?How do students qualify for Title I support?

Overview of assessments used to determine Title I eligibility

Overview of ‘Guided Reading’Overview of ‘Fundations’

Meeting Agenda Continued

Complete Parent Involvement Report Card

PRIZE GIVE AWAY!!! If you have specific questions, concerns, or things you’d like to share about your child, please schedule a time to talk with Mrs. Sweeney at the end of the meeting. Thanks!!!

Title I SupportWhat is Title I Support?

How do students qualify?

Supplemental support in reading

Specifically teach & reinforce: decoding & encoding skills, reading strategies, & comprehension skills

Drill & practice of letters, sounds, and High Frequency Words

In or outside of regular education classroom

Small groups (5-8 students)

Various assessments

1.PSSA 2.4-Sight 3.DIBELS 4.Running Records to

find Guided Reading Level

5.Report Card Grades

Descriptions of Assessments

PSSA & 4-Sight Tests DIBELS4-Sight:given 3-4 times

per year for grades 3rd-5th PSSA: given 1 time per

yr.Predetermined range of

levels based on how students perform

1.Advanced 2.Proficient3.Basic4.Below Basic

Given 3 times per year for KG-5th

First Sound FluencyPhoneme

SegmentationNonsense Word

FluencyOral Reading FluencyRetell & Quality of

Retell

Running Records to find Guided Reading Levels

Student is given a text to read

Some pages they read aloud for teachers to score reading accuracy

Timed only to see how long it takes them to read

Student reads the rest of text independently

Then they are asked 5-10 comprehension questions

If student’s reading accuracy is below 90%, we bump down a level

If reading accuracy is between 90-94%, stay at this level and find comprehension score

If comprehension score is below 79%, we bump down a level

Instructional Reading & Comprehension Levels

Reading Accuracy(# of words read correctly)

Frustrational: less than 90% Accuracy

Instructional: 90-95% Accuracy

Independent: 96% or higher

Reading Comprehension(text based, inferential,

critical thinking questions)Frustrational: less than 79%

Instructional: 80-94%

Independent: 95% or higher

What is Guided Reading?Creators: Fountas &

PinnellSmall group instruction Groups based on

Instructional Reading Fluency & Comprehension Levels

Reinforcing reading strategies & comprehension strategies

Students are applying the strategies

• Teacher listens & takes observations of students as they read

• Take notes on: fluency, reading errors, vocabulary, retelling what they read, what was the main event/details, etc.

• Finally, students are given a review of reading performance & strategies to improve future reading tasks

What is ‘Fundations’Systematic, multi-sensory

phonics & phonemic awareness program

Promotes the following: encoding (spelling) decoding (reading) reading fluency

(reading smoothly in phrases, with expression and tone)

Letter/Sound Card RoutineVowels-pink cards (long &

short vowels)Consonants-yellow cardsGlued Sounds (am, an, all,

ing, ong, ank, etc.)Trick Words- CAN’T SOUND

OUT!

(the, was, here, my, etc.)Finger tappingPhrasing/Swooping Sentence DictationTile Board

Parent Involvement Report Card

Please take some time to complete this report card

You don’t need to hand it in, but it’s more about acknowledging the GOOD THINGS YOU’RE DOING at home with your children and if there are any other areas that you can help your child and school.

Check Out These Websites!!!

http://www.education.state.pa.us- type in academic state standards to pull up all subjects

http:www.projectappleseed.org- this is the site that I took the Parent Involvement Report Card from; has TONS of great sources for PARENTS!!!

http://www. learningpage.com -FREE signup and provides books to download & print, worksheets on various skills

• http://www.superteacherworksheets.com- has FREE printable worksheets in math, reading, writing, grammar, handwriting, graphic organizers

• http://www.pppst.com- FREE Power Point Presentations on all sorts of topics and subjects to help reviewing skills at home

More Great Websites!!!http://guysread.com- this site gives you lists of books

that boys would be interested in reading, facts about why boys struggle reading or interest to read books

http://lazyreaders.com- this site gives you lists of books from children, young adult, to adult; the lists are quality books that won’t take forever to read

http://rif.org – Check out tips and activity ideas to motivate your child to read. An area just for parents!

http://starfall.com - Where children have fun learning to read! This site has interactive games that your child can play as they learn to read. It is a FREE site.

THANKS FOR COMING!! Please remember to take the handouts on the

following:1.List of Reading Strategies & Comprehension Skills2.PSSA Performance Levels and Scores3.Descriptions of Guided Reading Books4.Ringlets on Phonemic Awareness and High Frequency Word

Activities5.Ringlets on Reading Fluency, Decoding & Encoding

Strategies6.Reading Fluency Packets

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