East Heights Elementary Henderson County Schools

1. East Heights ElementaryHenderson County Schools Reading for Succeeding

2. Proficiency or Bust! • Begin with Universal Decisions or School wide Plans • KG- Grade 2 plans • Grade 3-5 plans • KG-Grade 5 plans

3. KG-Grade 2 • DRA-Developmental Reading Assessment in KG-gr. 2 = “My teacher knows exactly what I need.” • Daily Reading Clinics = “My teacher teaches me exactly what I need.” • Common planning for all = Success for all

4. Assess to Know • Use a respected assessment tool which will give you information about the reader in the 5 components of reading • Give teachers a “common language and form to discuss reading instruction” • Provide teachers with an authentic tool such as one using lexiles that can correspond with leveled texts and classroom libraries

5. Reading Clinic • 100-75% 1st quartile-Teacher A • 74-50% 2nd quartile-Teacher B • 49-25% 3rd quartile-Teacher C • 24-1% 4th quartile-Teacher D and (speech paths, assistants, S.N. teachers, and anyone else who will help) • Daily, flexible skill grouping to provide laser-like focused instruction of essential reading skills; 45 minutes per day; no excuses

6. Grade 3-5 • “ORQ Coaching Done My Way” • “Organize or Know Demise” • “Vocab or Rehab” • On guard: “Can you defend that?”

7. Kg-Grade 5 • Open Response Plan and Schedule • “No Fail Policy” • School-wide Homework Plan • Accelerated Reader

8. High Scoring Strategies for Reading ORQs • Get a 4: • Read and reread the passage • Read and reread the ORQ • Circle the “Do” words and underline key words • Always use your graphic organizer • Answer all parts and label all parts • Look for more than one way to say and write the answer • Support and defend with multiple details which come from the text • Use quotation marks to cite the details from the text • Use your prompts i.e. I know this because in the passage it says…….; I can support my answer because in the passage it says…..; The passage says … • Ask what is the BIG IDEA for this passage? (i.e. a lesson on friendship, a lesson on responsibility, a lesson on cooperation, etc.) • Then use your connection questions/prompts with the BIG IDEA, i.e. • An example of (a concept relating to the BIG IDEA) that I have learned is… • I can relate this to something in my life like (when)… • In the real world I know that … • I can relate this to something I have read before ….

9. High Scoring Strategies for Reading ORQs • Get a 3: • Read and reread the passage • Read and reread the ORQ • Circle the “Do” words and underline key words • Always use your graphic organizer • Answer all parts and label all parts • Look for more than one way to say and write the answer • Support and defend with multiple details which come from the text • Use quotation marks to cite the details from the text • Use your prompts i.e. I know this because in the passage it says…….; I can support my answer because in the passage it says…..

10. Analyzing Student Work • District provides a common planning time of 1 hour per week providing a venue where they bring samples of work and raise questions/comments about the work on the common ORQs • Teachers work together using common student work samples to compare and discuss what is distinguished work • Teachers share ideas about instructional practices, materials, etc.

11. Don’t forget the Party! • District Celebration in October • Reward activities for following the Good Faith Checklist • Awards and Recognition Dinner in March