1. First Grade Flexible Grouping PALS

2. Why Group our kids?  We want to meet kids… WHERE THEY ARE

3. STAR EARLY LITERACY

4. Making the divide… Mrs. Jeffries LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 706 709 710 714 716 717 719 724 725 728 732 733 735 736 740 742 743 744 745 Mrs. Lightfoot LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 552 572 615 618 625 626 635 646 647 660 662 666 668 675 676 679 688 691 699 704 706 Mrs. Jermain LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 747 749 750 752 753 754 755 757 758 759 761 763 764 766 767 Mrs. Roberts LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 770 773 775 779 780 782 784 788 789 790 794 795 797 798 800 802 803 Mrs. Middleton LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 804 806 807 808 809 810 812 813 814 815 819 820 Ms. Ditmars LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 820 821 822 824 825 826 827 828 830 832 833 834 835 837 839 Ms. Tuttle LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 840 842 845 846 847 848 849 850 852 853 854 Mrs. Troutman LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 855 859 862 865 866 867 870 873 874 875 876 883 884 889 Mrs. White LNFLNF LSFLSF PSFPSF NWFNWF 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4.0 Red = Well Below Average Yellow = Below Average Green =Average Blue = Above Average White = Well Above Average

5. Here’s what we do… Serious intervention Independent practice

6. STAR EARLY LITERACY

8. STAR READING

9. The Results are in… SEL Age in years GPSSEst. ORF Literacy Domain Scores GRGKPACOPHVOSA Pretest (Mean) 7.11.497907193888381797876 Posttest (Mean) 7.21.688168595918785848382 Change +0.2+.19+26+14+2+3+4 +5 +6 Number of Students: 170 STAR GPSSGEPRNCEIRLEst. ORF Pretest (Mean) 1.532412.27966.71.966 Posttest (Mean) 1.692852.58268.72.488 Change +.16+44+.3+3+2.0+.5+22 Number of Students: 21

10. The next step… Mrs. White 4.8 4.7 4.4 4.3 4.0 3.8 3.7 3.6 862 879 885 Mrs. Troutman 859 866 874 876 877 882 883 795 889 870 863 866 867 868 869 871 882 Mrs. White 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4.0 16 kids46 kids

11. Here is what we like.. That we can see the growth in our students Our data results The behaviors of our kids Conversations we are having with each other How the kids are able to talk about their learning The children interact with other kids Confidence is building in a larger group of kids Students are engaged in learning up to the bell

12. As of May 10, 2011  First Grade has read 10,606,146 words.  They have tested successfully on 20,968 books, averaging 93.7%.  Our estimated engaged time in reading per school day is 42 minutes.  We are averaging a 2.0 reading level.