East Heights Elementary

Henderson County Schools

Reading for Succeeding

Proficiency or Bust!

☼Begin with Universal Decisions or School wide Plans☼KG- Grade 2 plans

☼Grade 3-5 plans

☼KG-Grade 5 plans

KG-Grade 2DRA-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

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

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

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

Kg-Grade 5•Open Response Plan and

Schedule•“No Fail Policy”•School-wide Homework Plan•Accelerated Reader

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 ….

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…..

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.

Don’t forget the Party!* District

Celebration in October

* Reward activities for following the Good Faith Checklist

* Awards and Recognition Dinner in March