Ms. E's Reading Intervention-128
Questions about Reading Intervention?
site still being constructed as of 10-29-09
What is reading intervention?
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Reading Intervention is a program designed for "at risk students" who are reading 6 months or more below grade level standards.
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Reading Intervention is a supplement to reading in the regular classroom, not a replacement for it.
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The major focus is on phonological awareness, phonics, and strategies to figure out unknown words in print.
How does my child qualify?
1st. grade uses informal reading data, recognition of letters and sounds, hight frequency word list, and teacher observation.
2nd - 5th grade uses the STAR Test ( A fill in the blank computer reading test) students are given a set of25 sentences where a decision has to be made from a selection 4 choices. The sentences have a varied level of difficulty and moves from easy to hard to easy depending on correct or incorrect answer. The computer takes the students' data from the test and converts it to a grade equivalent, percentile rank, reading range for independent reading, and written information on his/her reading stage and how to help.
3rd -5th grades uses the TERRA NOVA (starts at Marshall with 3rd grade). This is a standardized achievement test, chosen by DODEA/DDESS and has a reading/language arts section that compares our students to others throughout the country who have taken the same test. Data from the test is converted to a percentile rank. Students who score in the bottom 25% are at severe risk of reading failure.
3rd-5th grades use the S.R.I. (Scholastic Reading Inventory): another computer test much like the STAR explained above where longer passages are read and then an answer is chosen from a series of choices.The computer takes the students' data from the test and converts it into a Lexile.
Data on students who fall .5 to 1.0 year/s or more below grade level expectations is used to help determine eligibility for intervention services.
2nd grade and 3rd grade teachers use the D.R.A., previous year's performance,and informal observation.
use the above formal pieces as well as the D.R.A., prior year's performance and teacher observation.
The Directed Reading Assessment contains a leveled set of stories ranging in levels of difficulty. The test is given one to one. The teacher listens to a student read from a pre- selected story and difficulty level aloud. Observable reading behaviors are noted. These behaviors include pausing, rereading, searching pictures, appealing for help, sounding out letter clusters, self-correcting and various other reading strategies. The teacher analyzes the miscues and can then determine an appropriate level for reading instruction to begin.
Click on the following link to see at what level you child should be reading to meet grade level expectations. Leveling Correlations
Click on the following link to get help on list of high frequency words that all students shoud know with automaticity by 3rd grade.
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