A Little Bit of Everything: Student Referrals and ELO

Materials

Erin MonnOctober 2011 In-Service

New Bloomfield Elementary

Agenda

IST Student referral form Initiating student referral flowchart

ELO Location of materials New material review Form groups, plan activities, etc.

Student Referral Form

Funnel concerns to one place J:\Work Files\IST\11-12 IST\District

Forms\West Perry School District student referral form 9-11.docx

Initiating Student Referral Flowchart

Explanation of process J:\Work Files\IST\11-12 IST\District

Forms\West Perry School District Initiating Student Referral Flow chart.docx

ELO Materials

Location/organization of materials Sign out procedures

New Phonological/Phonemic Awareness Materials

Road to the Code Who?

K-1 intervention Students practice segmenting words into phonemes

and develop understanding that those phonemes are represented by certain letters

What? 44 lessons; 4-5 students in group; 4 times/week; 15-20

minute lesson Lesson format

Say it and Move it Say target word and students move disk to blend

sounds Letter name and sound instruction Sound categorization or further practice segmenting

words (initial sounds and rhyming parts)

New Phonics Materials Start Up, Build Up, Spiral Up Program

Who? K-5 intervention Students who need practice with specific phonics skills

What? Administer Quick Phonics Assessment to find out

where to place students Direct and explicit 30 minute lessons Scripted lesson plans covering a phonics skill for 5

days Contains quick checks for progress monitoring

Start Up Kit Grades K-3 75 Ready-to-use Skill Bags target:

Phonological Awareness Letter Discrimination Letter Identification Short Vowels Consonants Sight word vocabulary Spelling

Build Up Kit Grades 1-4 41 Ready-to-use Skill Bags target:

Phonemic Awareness Long vowels Blends, diagraphs, diphthongs, and

variant vowels Sight word vocabulary Spelling

Spiral Up Kit

Grades 2-6 37 Ready-to-use Skill Bags target:

Multisyllabic word-solving strategies Syllable spelling patterns Sight word vocabulary Spelling

New Phonics Materials (cont.)

HFW/Phonics-based/Sight Word-based Books Previously in the book room Organized by HFW/phonics skill/sight

words

New Phonics Materials (cont.) High Noon Phonics-based chapter books

Who? K-2 acceleration 3-5 intervention (great for intermediate students who need practice with

decoding) What?

Low first grade readability Sets of books that get progressively more difficult with their phonics skills

Sets A-1, A-2, A-3 One syllable words with double consonants, plural s, ck endings Short vowels and long vowels Short vowels and long vowels mixed

Sets B-1, B-2, B-3 Consonant blends; diphthongs, controlled vowels, silent letters (B-1 and B-2) One-syllable words with short/long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs

Sets C-1 and C-2 Two-syllable words practicing skills introduced in A and B sets

U.S. Sports and X Sports Nonfiction Designed for reluctant readers

New Phonics Materials (cont.) Phonics and Spelling through Phoneme-

Grapheme Mapping Who?

Grades 3-5 intervention Students having trouble going from phonological

awareness to print Strengthens phonemic awareness skills and builds

word sound to word spelling association What?

Map words by matching the grapheme (letter) to each phoneme (sound)

New Fluency Materials Reader’s Theater Scripts

Who? K-5 intervention/acceleration Students who need practice developing their fluency Allows students of differing reading levels to read together

What? K-2

Nursery rhymes and songs Multi-leveled scripts ranging from levels A-E Characters color-coded based on level Visual icons for support Builds comprehension and vocabulary as well Contains lesson plans

3-5 Content-area and folktales, myths, and legends Supports core content as well as vocabulary and comprehension Roles are leveled (F-M, N-X) Contains lesson plans

New Comprehension Materials Hi interest/low readability genre

chapter books Who?

Grades 3-5 intervention Students who are reading below grade level

and need to work on comprehension skills What?

First and second grade readability Mysteries, science fiction/fantasy,

biographies

New Comprehension Materials (cont.) Classroom Best Practices in Reading

F/NF Paired Books Who?

Grades 4-5 acceleration Students who need practice with specific

comprehension strategies What?

Copies of paired fiction and nonfiction books Lesson plans that show which comprehension

strategies are covered in the books

New Resource Materials

Teaching Reading Sourcebook Who?

Grades K-5 intervention and acceleration What?

Provides ideas for activities/lessons that can be used to strengthen students’ skills in all areas of reading