Reading First Summer Program

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Reading First Summer Program

• July 6 August 6

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Schedule of the Day

• Children meet and attendance taken in the
  cafeteria.
• Period one 815-920
• Snack 920-940
• Period two 940-1030
• Recess 1030-1110
• Period three 1110- 1200
• Lunch 1200- 1230

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Phonemic Awareness

• Students play with the words, rhyming, stretching
  the words out to hear the separate sounds.

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Phonics

• The ability to use letter-sound correspondences
  to identify words is a primary difference between
  good readers and poor readers.

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Fluency

• Essential to fluency is the ability to read words
  automatically with no apparent cognitive effort,
  or automaticity.
• The ability to read with expression is the
  second important element.

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Vocabulary

• Indirect word learning vs. direct word learning
• Using context clues
• Natural contexts

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Comprehension

• When children are able to comprehend text, they
  understand what they read, they remember what
  they read, and they are able to communicate with
  others about what they read.

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Comprehension

• Accessing prior knowledge
• Determining what is important
• Asking questions
• Creating visual images from text
• Making inferences
• Retelling or synthesizing
• Utilizing fix-up strategies

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Participants of the Reading Program
Each child was tested with the DIBELS to help
design instruction to address their needs.
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Initial Sound Fluency

• Average increase in range from 0-8 was 2.7 points
• Greatest gain was 6 points
• One decrease of 3 points due to outside factors

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Letter Naming Fluency

• Average increase was 12 points for incoming first
  grade students

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Phoneme Segmentation Fluency

• Average gain was nine points
• Test of in-coming first graders

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Oral Reading Fluency

• Average gain of 18 words per minute

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Benefits

• Transportation provided greater attendance
• Greater attendance provided more learning time
  per pupil
• Longer class time provided more learning time
• Instructors were very pleased with attendance and
  teaching time

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Improvements for 2005

• Recruiting more children
• Connecting with parents

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Contact Information

• If you have questions about the Reading First
  Grant or the Open Court Reading Series, please
  contact Donna Andre at school 529-7324 ext. 232