Southmoreland Primary Center

Southmoreland Primary Center2011-2012DemographicsGrades K and 1130 Kindergarten students166 First Grade students51% Economically Disadvantaged29% Title 1 15% Special Education (Includes Speech)

Welcome to SPC!Identity is important in any organizationWe are the foundation for learning for the students in this community.We are professionals who use data and best practice to design instruction.We are teachers who care about whether or not our students get it and work to ensure high quality learning for all.We are on a mission to prepare our students for the future.Who We AreKnowing each other and concerning ourselves with the success of this building is the basis for all that we do at SPC.By knowing our students, we can be prescriptive in our assistance and accurate in our assessments.By knowing one another, we create an environment that allows us to share and to be open to the ideas of our peers.Who We AreDynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy SkillsMeasures the acquisition of early literacy skills from Kindergarten through Second GradeAdministered three times a year (Beginning, Middle and End)Used by SPC teachers to identify students experiencing difficulty in the acquisition of those early literacy skills Strategies to develop those skills identified in team meetings and through Title 1 support

DIBELSLetter Naming Fluency: Assesses a childs skill at recognizing letters.Initial Sound Fluency: Assesses a child's skill at identifying and producing the initial sound of a given word.Phonemic Awareness: Assesses a child's skill at producing the individual sounds (e.g. c-a-t > cat) within a given word. In this assessment, three and four phoneme combinations are presented to students. It is also considered a strong predictor of later reading achievement.Nonsense Word Fluency: Assesses a child's knowledge of letter-sound correspondences as well their ability to blend letters together to form unfamiliar "nonsense" (e.g., ut, fik, lig, etc.) words using vowel-consonant and consonant vowel-consonant formations (letter-sound correspondence).Oral Reading Fluency: Assesses a child's skill at reading connected text in grade-level materials.

-Kaminski and Good, 1996DIBELS Categories for K-1DataExamples of DIBELS testing

Letter Naming Fluency

Phonemic AwarenessExamples of DIBELS testing

Nonsense WordsOral FluencyExamples of DIBELS testing

Initial Sound FluencyWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Letter Naming Fluency--KindergartenWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Initial Sound Fluency-KindergartenWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Phoneme Segmentation Fluency-KindergartenWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Nonsense Word Fluency-KindergartenWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Nonsense Word Fluency-First GradeWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Phoneme Segmentation Fluency-First GradeWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Letter Naming FluencyFirst GradeWhat Does the Data Tell Us?Oral Reading FluencyFirst Grade35 First Grade students are already reading over 75 words per minute as of this testing. Benchmark for the end of first grade is 40+ words per minute.Oral FluencyWhat are our programs strengths and weaknesses?What is our organizational response to the data?How do I continue to support teachers and monitor the plans implementation and effectiveness?Student Learning:Confronting our reality