Descriptions of Literacy Education Programs in use at Westville School DistrictLeveled Literacy Intervention is a small group, supplementary literacy intervention designed for students who find reading and writing difficult. It supports learning in both reading and writing, helps students expand their knowledge of language and words and how they work. In Grades K-2 leveled small group lessons take place for 30 minutes 5 days a week supplementing the classroom ELA instruction. Phonics First® is language-based, multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, cognitive, and flexible Orton-Gillingham approach to reading. Lessons emphasize a balance of reading and spelling for mastery of phonetic and non-phonetic words. In addition, lessons include structured syllabication study for decoding mastery of multisyllable words. In Grades K-1 leveled small group lessons take place 30 minutes for 3 - 5 days a week based on student need. Instruction supplements the classroom ELA instructional time. http://rlac.com/phonics-first Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for below grade level first graders. Individual students in first grade receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks. http://readingrecovery.org/reading-recovery/teaching-children/basic-facts What is my child's reading level and how do I support that with books? A Lexile measure is a valuable piece of information about either an individual's reading ability or the difficulty of a text, like a book or magazine article. The Lexile measure is shown as a number with an "L" after it — 880L is 880 Lexile. A student gets his or her Lexile reader measure from a reading test or program. At Parkview, we use the NWEA MAP test results to determine the Lexile level. This can be found on the report you receive 3 times per year. For example, if a student receives an 880L on her end-of-grade reading test, she is an 880 Lexile reader. Higher Lexile measures represent a higher level of reading ability. A Lexile reader measure can range from below 200L for emergent readers to above 1600L for advanced readers. Some further literacy resources where students from all grade levels can go to practice skills: http://www.scholastic.com/parents/http://www.readingrockets.org/audience/parents http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html?login http://www.starfall.com/ |
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