DESIGNING THE DIFFERENCE

MEETING Objectives:

• Give parents overview of Act 438
• Give an overview of CKLA (skills and knowledge)
• Give an overview of LETRS training for teachers
• Explain how to read Dibels report
• Give end of year targets for each grade level
• Demonstrate home activities

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ACT 438

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GOAL OF ACT 438

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• To teach students to read on or above grade level

ACT 438

• Early literacy for students in grades K-3
• Annual literacy assessments
• Provide literacy support for students
• Provide literacy PD for teachers
• Annual literacy reporting
• Provide literacy plans for students when needed

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

• Notify parents if student is below grade level within 15 days.

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• Sept. 20th closes window - host meeting by Oct. 11th

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REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

• Information on the importance of reading
• Home activities for parents
• Specific interventions that will be used
• Middle and end of the year data
• Post literacy plan on school website

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What is skills and knowledge?

2024-25

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CKLA Skills lessons are designed to teach the most common English spelling for a sound. The Skills units move from simplest to most frequently occurring sounds in kindergarten to least frequent and more complex spellings in Grade 2. All foundational reading skills are taught during the Skills lessons.

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CKLA Knowledge lessons are created to build vocabulary, background knowledge, fluency stamina, and creative thinking skills around literature. The units cover a wide range of fiction and nonfiction topics including literature, science, and social studies topics.

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What is LETRS:

LETRS provides a professional learning course of study based in the science of reading for elementary educators. The course teaches the how, what, and why of how children learn to read. It helps teachers improve instructional practice and achieve long-term benefits in literacy instruction.

• End of year targets for each grade level�* Demonstate home activity

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Documents:

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PARENT PACKET LETTERS/CHARTS/INFO

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• End of year targets for each grade level�* Phonological Awareness

Phonological awareness is all about the sounds that letters make. Children that can recognize the sounds in words and do activities like rhyming, counting syllables, adding, deleting, or changing sounds in words, and picking out specific sounds in words have strong phonological awareness skills.

• End of year targets for each grade level�* Demonstrate home activity

Sound Segmentation:

Sound Count: Do the above activity except with sounds. Say a word, make sure to make each sound

clearly, and let your child count how many sounds are in the word. Example: cat (/c/a/t/ = 3 sounds)

mouse (/m/ou/s/ = 3 sounds) stick (/s/t/i/ck/ = 4 sounds)

• End of year targets for each grade level�* Demonstrate home activity: Phonics

Letter- Sound Recognition

As your child begins to easily identify all of the sounds made by letters in the alphabet, you can start introducing more complex spelling patterns, including digraphs (when two letters make one sound, such as with ‘ch, sh, th, ph, and wh,” or other vowel and consonant blends (letters that are commonly put together and make a unique sound).

• End of year targets for each grade level�* Demonstrate home activity

Syllable Slide: Write single-syllable words on index cards or use words from their favorite children’s book. Encourage your child to say each sound in the word and then put the sounds together to make (blend) the word. Have them slide their fingers under the sounds and words as they read them. Sample words include:

run, top, hit, bat, cap, sit, dip, rat, cot, bed, hat, art, car, fur, chop.

• End of year targets for each grade level�* Decodable Readers

You can find decodable readers online or your child’s teacher may be able to provide copies of these types of stories. Decodable readers are books that contain only the letter-sound correspondences or spelling patterns that have been taught. If a child has not learned the sound a

particular letter makes, they will not be able to decode words containing that letter. As such, what is

decodable for your child changes as they learn more letter-sound correspondences and spelling patterns.

What is Accelerated Reader?

How it works:

What is accelerated reader?

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Students pick a book at their own level and read it at their own pace. When students finish the book, they take a short quiz on the computer to check their understanding.

LITERACY INTERVENTION Action Plan

What is in the packet?

Before going outside

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