2.  Engage in targeted, research-based, small group instruction addressing the needs of our students.  Create a school culture that promotes goal setting and academic achievement and celebrates progress.  Ensure that every child is advancing academically and that no child is getting left behind.

3.  Professional Literature Used to Develop the Program: ◦ Falling in Love with Close Reading by Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts ◦ The Data Coach’s Guide to Improving Learning for All Students by Nancy Love, Katherine Stiles, Susan Mundry, Kathryn DiRamma ◦ Revisiting Professional Learning Communities At Work by Rebecca Dufour ◦ RTI Success in Secondary Schools: A Toolkit for Middle & High Schools by Jim Wright ◦ When Kids Can’t Read- Kylene Beers ◦ Fair Isn’t Always Equal- Rick Wormeli

4.  All Students will move up at least TWO Grade levels in reading this year.  Students will read at least 50 books at their reading level.  As a whole school (students and staff) we will read 10,000 books this year.

5.  Students meet in small group three a week for targeted literacy instruction.  Students take an assessment monthly to determine how much they improved in reading and whether or not they met their monthly goal  Groups are organized based on reading level and skills needed to master.  Students will work with get an opportunity to work with students they have never worked with before and teachers they may not have worked with before.

6. Lexile levels correlate to reading levels. Students take a computer adapted test that determines their lexile scores. Lexile is a way to measure how complex a text is.

7.  Myon offers students a digital library of books based on their interest and reading level.  Most books have audio versions.  After each book, students take a short quiz.  After every 5 books there is a benchmark assessment.

8.  DRP assessments: ◦ Determine a students ability to comprehend (understand) a text. ◦ Have students identify the correct missing word from the sentence based on the context clues surrounding it ◦ Get progressively more challenging throughout the test to help build test-taking stamina ◦ Provide us with data to see which skills a child has mastered and which skills they still need to work on.

9.  Students: ◦ Students receive their data report at the end of the cycle. ◦ They use their data to set 3 goals for the next cycle and develop a plan for how they meet those goals. ◦ At the end of the cycle they reflect on whether or not they met their goals and why.  Parents: ◦ Receive a progress report in the mail after each cycle is complete. ◦ Progress report includes where the child started the cycle at and where the child finished the cycle at. ◦ It gives you information on their updated reading level and what provides you with ways you can support your child in at home in reading  Teachers: ◦ Teachers look at the data and set goals for each cycle too. ◦ After each cycle they confer with the Literacy Coach around their own goals and I confer with them on additional strategies they can use to support your child in the area of literacy.

10.  Have them sign onto MyOn at least 45 minutes EACH night. ◦ THE MORE THEY READ THE QUICKER THEY MOVE UP!  Have them read out loud to you each night in any language.  Ask them questions about the book they are reading. ◦ See handout with lists of thought provoking questions that can apply to any text.  When you receive their progress report each month talk to them about it. ◦ Ask them what their goals are for the next cycle. ◦ Post their goals somewhere. ◦ Have them go over their plan for how they are going to meet their goals.  Work through practice State Exams with them. ◦ Use our packet we are providing you with and do two passages a week.  Send them to Saturday Test Prep Sessions  Take them to the library.

11.  All teachers have engaged in professional development to improve their skills teaching reading. They have learned the following strategies: Socratic Seminars, Readers Theatre, and how to model fluency.  70% of our students have signed onto Myon and increased their Lexile Score.  100% of our students have set their own reading goals for cycle one and created customized plans to meet those goals.  85% of our students have already read 3 or more books this school year.