Paulding Elementary Interventions PEERS Group

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Paulding ElementaryInterventionsPEERS Group

• Fall
• 2005

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Group Members

• Nancy Ruhe, Facilitator
• Leigh Hutson
• Marcia Wiebe
• Ruby Crossland
• Bev Bertwell
• Cathy Wunderle
• Nancy Edens
• Martin Miller
• Tracy Gunderman

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Group Goals

• Goal 1
• To develop and implement a daily half-hour
  intervention/enhancement period in the Paulding
  Elementary Building.

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Group Goals

• Students with academic skills that are below
  grade level will have an opportunity for
  interventions that help develop weak skills.
• Students with academic skills that are at or
  above grade level will have an opportunity to
  further enhance their skills.

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Group Goals

• Goal 2
• To research and select appropriate materials to
  use for both the daily intervention period and
  after-school tutoring programs.

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Intervention Periods

• The PEERS group worked with grade level teachers
  to determine time blocks for intervention
  periods.
• Each grade level selected a time block for
  intervention.

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Fourth Grade Teachers plan for intervention
times, process, and materials.
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Intervention Process

• Grade Levels selected various strategies to
  deliver interventions. These included
• Teacher providing interventions to own class.
• Students moving between classrooms to receive
  intervention at specific ability level.
• Teachers moving among classrooms to provide
  interventions.

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Need for Intervention

• The need for intervention will be matched to
  particular students through the assessments
  already used in the Paulding Elementary building.
• Assessments include DIBELS, STAR Reading, STAR
  Math.

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DIBELS

• The use of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early
  Literacy Skills (DIBELS) was introduced during
  the 2004-05 school year in grades K -3.
• DIBELS is used at Paulding Elementary to identify
  students who are at risk of reading failure.

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DIBELS

• The use of DIBELS in grades 4 5 was introduced
  for the 2005-06 school year.

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Fourth through sixth grade teachers practicing
using the DIBELS assessment at the August
in-service.
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Intervention Assistance Team

• Paulding Elementary has an existing Intervention
  Assistance Team (IAT). The IAT will additionally
  be used to identify needed interventions for
  individual students. These interventions can be
  implemented during the Intervention Period.

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Existing Intervention Materials

• Read Well is a structured phonics program that
  was introduced at Paulding Elementary during
  2004-05.
• Read Well provide small group instruction at
  ability level in grades K-2.
• Read Well will continued to be used by grades K-2
  during the 2005-06 school year for intervention.

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New Materials

• A major focus of the PEERS group was to research
  and select intervention materials to use for use
  in grades 3 through 5.

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New Materials

• Goals in material selection include
• Ability to individualize for student needs.
• Ability to provide for ongoing assessment.
• Ability to provide for consistency in
  interventions.

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Grant Funds

• Paulding Elementary received the Ohio Adolescent
  Reading Grant for the 2005-06 school year. Funds
  from this grant were available to purchase
  intervention materials for grades 4 and 5.

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Materials/Programs Considered

• The PEERS group researched and reviewed multiple
  programs and materials for use during the
  intervention period.

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Materials/Programs Considered

• SRA Reading Lab
• PALS Reading and Math
• Language
• Reading A-Z
• Harcourt Intervention
• Orchard Computer Software
• Rocket Math
• Reading Games

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Materials Selected

• Reading Games
• A series of reading games was selected. These
  games reinforce skills such as main ideas, cause
  and effect, and making inferences. The use of
  such games will help develop skills and help
  support classroom management.

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Materials Selected

• Reading A-Z
• This is a program of leveled readers and
  accompanying activities. Materials are
  down-loaded from a subscription site on the
  internet.

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Materials Selected

• Reading A-Z will be used by selected grade levels
  for the intervention period.
• Reading A-Z will additionally be the primary
  program used in the after-school tutoring
  programs.

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Materials Selected

• Rocket Math is a self-paced program that helps
  students develop fluency with basic math facts.
• Rocket Math will be used in grades 3 5.

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Presentation

• The PEERS group held an in-service presentation
  to introduce teachers to the intervention process
  and the available materials.

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Tracy Gunderman explains the Reading A-Z
materials during the PEERS presentation.
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Cathy Wunderle explains options for using the
reading games during the PEERS presentation.
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Documentation

• The PEERS group worked to develop a process to
  document interventions provided to individual
  students.
• A documentation form was developed that will be
  maintained in individual student files.

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Name ______________________________________ Inte
rvention History ( Offered did not
attend) Tutoring, IAT, 504 Plans
Grade Level Date Start Date End Tutor Material/Program/Comments







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Volunteers

• In order to provide interventions in small group
  settings, the PEERS group organized an effort to
  recruit both high school and adult volunteers.

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First grade teacher, Leigh Hutson, and Volunteer
Coordinator/Title I Teacher, Nancy Edens, plan
for the use of volunteers in the Intervention
Program.
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Evaluation

• The following will be used to evaluate the
  success of the Intervention Program
• Dibels
• Read-Well Assessments
• Math Masters Results
• Proficiency Test results
• Teacher ratings

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First graders in a Read Well lesson.