Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL)

Grant

October 9, 2018

SRCL Purpose

The Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy (SRCL) Program

awards competitive grants to advance literacy skills, including

preliteracy skills, reading, and writing, for children from birth

through grade 12, with an emphasis on disadvantaged children,

including children living in poverty, English learners, and children

with disabilities.

Grant Requirements

• Minimum Funding Allocations

– 15% Birth to Age 5

– 40% K – 5

– 20% Middle

– 20% High School

• Alignment to State Comprehensive Literacy Plan

• Charles County Comprehensive Literacy Plan

• Cooperation with National Evaluation

Grant Priorities

• Practices and Interventions Supported by Moderate or Strong Evidence

• Serving Disadvantaged Children

• Alignment within a Birth through Fifth Grade Continuum

CCPS Project Targets

• Birth – Grade 12 Alignment

– Instruction

– Interventions

• Focused, High-Quality Professional Development

• Effective Screening and Monitoring Tools

• Community Partnerships

$2,776,008 Awarded

• Year 1 - 976,008

• Year 2 - 900,000

• Year 3 - 900,000

Let's get excellent at our interventions by investing in

educators' professional development and supplying

them with the materials they need.

Birth to 5

Community Involvement

• Early Childhood Community Liaison

• Playgroups

• Raising A Reader

Aims of Raising A Reader

1. Family engagement

2. Brain development

3. Early language and literacy development

4. Intrinsic reading motivation

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

• Comprehension intervention• Levels – Elementary, Middle and High School• Strategies:

– Word attack– Vocabulary– Making connections– Synthesizing– Making inferences– Analyzing– Critiquing

Tiered Levels of ELA Support

• Changes to classes (Literacy, Supplemental Reading, self-contained)

Literacy

Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment

Supplemental Reading

Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment

LLI and Just Words

• Language! Live for Self- Contained Classes

Language! Live

• LANGUAGE! Live is a structured literacy curriculum for students who are below grade level in reading comprehension, fluency, decoding, and spelling

• The program is divided into two components:

– online word training, which builds on lexical and phonemic skills, and

– in-class text training, which teaches close reading and comprehension skills

• Company reps presented to the Principals on September 12, 2018

Goalbook Pathways• Goalbook Pathways combines research-based resources,

strategies, and training

• Educators can design multiple pathways for ALL students to succeed

• Ready-to-use resources equip educators to apply strategic practice

• Goalbook Pathways models how to provide multiple levels of support for each learning activity

• Students can learn at a high level of rigor

ESOLImagine Language and Literacy- Online literacy intervention for language learners- Teaches language and literacy concepts- Explicit targeted instruction- Individualized learning paths- Adaptive programming- Provides strategic first language support

CCBOE Use of Imagine Language and Literacy- Account provided to all elementary ELs

- Daily intervention in addition to services provided by the ESOL teacher 2-3 times per week- Independent practice integrated into the guided reading block- Data monitored and used to guide instruction in the classroom and during ESOL services

SRCL Grant Goals & Objectives

• PARCC: Increase the percentage of students scoring 3, 4, or 5 from 65% to 75% with increases for all subgroups

• KRA: Increase the percentage of students demonstrating full readiness from 39% to 50% of students with increases for all subgroups

• ACCESS for ELLS 2.0: Increase the average literacy score from 2.9 to 3.2