Pilot Program

1. Pilot Program

2. Kindergarten • Lack of materials • No continuity across district • Teachers supplement programs to meet needs of students Reading Programs Teacher Concerns

4. Data Sources • Sounds/Signals Assessment • DIBELS-September, February, May • Take Home Reading Program • Parent Surveys

5. Classroom Make-Up • 26 Students • 24 Students since September, 1addition in February, 1 addition in April • 73 % Free/Reduced Lunch (At-Risk) • 5 Speech Therapy • 1 Autistic • 1 Emotionally Impaired • 2 w/o preschool experience

6. DIBELS ASSESSMENT 2009-2010 2011-2012

7. DIBELS ASSESSMENT (Mrs. McClain’s Class)

8. Sounds/signals Assessment

9. Take Home Reading Program (based on DRA) December 2011 May 2012

10. First Grade Data

11. 1st Grade DIBELS Assessment

12. STAR Early Literacy Scores

13. Parent Survey

14. Do you think signaling is important? • 17/19-Yes • 0/19-No • 1/10-I don’t understand the signals • 1/19-No response • Relates a sound and an action to help remember the letter • Helps retain knowledge • Helps student until they become readers • Makes learning the alphabet fun

15. Do you know the ZP signals? • 8/19-Yes • 9/19-Some • 2/19-No • Our goal is to have our student teach us and our preschool age child over the summer

16. Does your child signal at home when they do their homework? • 11/19-Yes • 1/19-Sometimes • 0/19-No • 7/19-When first learning the program but not anymore

17. Do you feel the teacher provides enough information to help you understand how to help your child with ZP? • 17/19-Yes • 1/19-No • 1/19-No response • We sing the song everyday • I asked my child to teach me signals

18. What are your opinions about ZP homework? • Helps reinforce the sounds-words and reading • Important to practice sounds/signals at home • Great practice and enhances reading abilities • Independent work for student with no fuss • Age and developmentally appropriate • Productive and moves along at a good pace • Wonderful way to learn • Great to train students for future teachers • Helpful • Sometimes too much

19. What is your child’s attitude about reading with the ZP program? • Enjoys reading • Excited and proud • Confident • Fun • Loves it • Amazed • Somewhat good • Eager

20. Additional Comments • Amazed with the program-older children did not have ZP and didn’t read until 1st grade • Strenghthens students ability to read and builds their confidence • Amazed at how quickly my child learned letters and sounds-he knew none when he started school • Started ZP at a private school-pleased when we moved to TR and he continued ZP • I hope ZP is adopted by all KG and 1st grade teachers

21. Continued… • My child was introduced to ZP in preschool...I feel continuation in KG is why he’s such a great reader now • I wish all Ionia elementary schools would use ZP…I chose TR because they teach the ZP program • Genuine method for teaching kids how to read • Enthusiasm for learning and reading-just wonderful

22. Continuted… • Skeptical at first, far exceeded what I thought was possible. My child’s reading level is almost a year ahead of my last child when she was in KG. I highly recommend ZP program to every child!

23. Student Survey

24. Do you like to read? • 23/24 Yes • 1/24 No

25. What is your favorite thing about ZP? • Handwriting pages-2 • The animals-2 • Singing the songs-8 • Matching games w/ word families-3 • Drawing pages-2 • Spelling tests-1 • A-B-C order-5 • Sounds/signals-1

26. Is there anything you don’t like about Zoo Phonics? • 18/24- I like everything about ZP. • 1/24-I don’t like Inny Inchworm because he eats leaves. • 1/24-coloring pages • 1/24-Beat the Timer • 1/24-spelling tests • 1/24-handwriting pages • 1/24-Sitting on the carpet for the lesson because I get all sweaty

27. Do you like to do the signals? Did you teach the signals to someone at home? • 19/24-Yes (like signals) • 2/24-No (do not like signals) • 21/24-taught signals to someone at home • 3/24-did not teach signals to someone at home

28. Who is your favorite ZP animal and why? • 7/24-Allie Alligator • she’s first • she has a bow on her head • it’s the first letter of my name • 4/24-Catina Cat • she lays on a rug • she can jump • she cleans her face • she looks like my cat

29. Con’t. • 1/24-Deedee Deer • she’s pretty and skinny • 1/24-Inny Inchworm • my names starts w/ I • 3/24-Sammy Snake • he sips lemonade and I love lemonade • he sips • he starts my first name

30. Con’t. • 1/24-Timothy Tiger • I love tigers • 3/24-Vincent Vampire Bat • he can hang upside down • he is a viking in the zoo phonics reader • he can fly • 1/24-Xavier Fox • he’s in my name

31. Con’t. • 3/24-Zeke Zebra • he falls asleep • he naps a lot • he sleeps a lot

32. Positives from KG & 1st Grade • Clear continuum from KG to 1st grade program • Students come into 1st grade feeling confident w/ familiar curriculum • Students love music involved in the program • Program encompasses grammar lessons, phonetic concepts, spelling, read aloud, oral retelling of stories and a connected lit. piece • No word is taught as a “red” word or non-phonetic word, sounds and exceptions are taught at all times

33. Positives Con’t. • Students are able to decode just about any word given to them • Once students become readers, they generally drop signaling on their own • Lowest readers are higher and can decode larger words than in previous years • More students reading more fluently • Lots of new words… • Phonetic concepts are taught more quickly, some concepts are covered that have never been taught before

34. Positives Con’t. • Both teachers in KG and 1st grade are teaching the same thing at the same time • Enough material to do 60+ minutes of whole group instruction daily

35. Expense to the District