Stop the Cycle of Illiteracy:

Solutions for Leadership, Data and Student Success

Maria George Senior Consultant

Winsor Learning, Inc.

The Four Steps to Student Success

1. Evaluate Student and Team Performance

2. Plan Intervention with Reading Team

3. Intervene

4. Monitor – Is it working?

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The Four Steps to Student Success

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Student Success

Assessments Programs

Leadership Professional Development

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Characteristics of High Performing Schools

• Clear and Shared Focus

• Culture of High Expectations for Students and Staff

• Effective School Leadership Focused on Instruction

• High Levels of Collaboration and Communication

• Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Aligned with State Standards

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Characteristics of High Performing Schools (cont’d.)

• Curriculum Focused on Academic Achievement…with emphasis on basic skills in mathematics and literacy

• Frequent Monitoring of Teaching and Learning

• Focused Professional Development

• Safe, Disciplined, Supportive and Caring Learning Environment

OSPI, Olympia, WA, 2003; Cawelti (2000)

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But what if…

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We have students who are NOT achieving?

What could we do?

What should we do?

What will we do?

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Clarity regarding what each student is

to learn

Processes for frequent and

timely monitoring of each student’s

learning

Plan for sharing

information about a

student who is experiencing

difficulty

A system that provides

students with additional

support

Key Elements of a Culture Focused on Student Learning

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J.V. Martin Junior High School—circa 1896 Dillon, SC

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JV Martin Junior High School— The Problem

• 2/3 of students reading below grade level

• School on lowest performing SC schools for more than a decade

• High occurrence of discipline problems

• Frustration and low morale of staff

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JV Martin Junior High School Dillon, SC

90% Subsidized Lunch

514 Total Students

125 Caucasian

354 African American

16 Hispanic

19 Other

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Percentage of Students Meeting Target Growth in Reading

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

35% 56% 69%

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

JV Martin Junior High School – Dillon, SC

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Students Who Increased Reading Levels Year 1 to Year 2

JV Martin Junior High School – Dillon, SC

Grade Levels

Increase

1

1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

5

5.5

6

6.5

7

7.5

8

Number of

Students

1

2

3

10

4

0

2

2

2

1

0

0

0

0

1

Average reading grade level increase of 3.1 grades

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Decrease in Discipline Referrals – Number of Students

JV Martin Junior High School – Dillon, SC

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1600

1800

2000

Year 1 Year 2

Year 1

Year 2

Discipline referrals to the administration dropped from

1,970 students in Year 1 to

1,266 students in Year 2.

This shows a

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BEG - August 2010 END - April 2011

INSTRUCTIONAL GRADE LEVEL PROBE

1 2

ORF Score 26 67

ORF Errors 3 1

26 67

3 1 SPED

5th Grader

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BEG - August 2010 END - April 2011

INSTRUCTIONAL GRADE LEVEL PROBE

2 3

ORF Score 73 94

ORF Errors 3 1

73 94

3 1 SPED

6th Grader

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BEG - August 2010 END - April 2011

INSTRUCTIONAL GRADE LEVEL PROBE

2 3

ORF Score 73 94

ORF Errors 3 1

73 94

3 1 SPED 6th Grader

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BEG - October 2009

END - May 2010

INSTRUCTIONAL GRADE LEVEL

PROBE 1 2

Year 1 ORF Score 12 66

Year 1 Errors 6 1

12

66

6 1 Tier III

1st Grade Year 1 BEG - August

2010 END - April 2011

INSTRUCTIONAL GRADE LEVEL

PROBE 2 3

Year 2 ORF Score 58 81

Year 2 Errors 1 0

58 81

1 0 Tier III

2nd Grade Year 2

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BEG - October 2009 END - May 2010

INSTRUCTIONAL GRADE LEVEL

PROBE 1 2

Year 1 ORF Score 27 103

Year 1 Errors 6 1

27

103

6 1

Tier III 2nd Grade

Year 1

BEG - August 2010 END - April 2011

INSTRUCTIONAL GRADE LEVEL

PROBE 3 4

Year 2 ORF Score 98 92

Year 2 Errors 0 0

98 92

0 0

Tier III 3rd Grade

Year 2

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How did we achieve success?

Analyzing the Curriculum and our Instruction prior to

viewing the student as having the problem

Understanding screening procedures, formative,

diagnostic and summative assessments

Using the data to guide decision making through regularly scheduled data

meetings

Quality professional development with Sonday

System 1 and 2 with coaching and DDI

embedded

Student SUCCESS Student SUCCESS

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Where are your students?

• Determine reading level of students – Formative assessments, i.e. DIBELS, AIMSweb

• Homogeneous groups of 3-5

• Tier II students…3 days a week

• Tier III and SPED students…5 days a week

• Groups remain flexible

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Assessments

• Create an assessment schedule for benchmarking and progress monitoring across the year

• Make decisions for grouping based on analysis of student data

• Student groups are flexible and change as students’ needs change

– As determined by diagnostic assessment and CBM

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Data is everyone’s responsibility!

• Data needs to be analyzed at the district level, school level, classroom level and individual student level

• Information gained from data analysis – and specifically error analysis – need to be embedded back into instruction at the intervention table

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Benefits of Using

• Small group instruction

• Incorporates the Big 5 – Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency,

Vocabulary, Text Comprehension

• Works with students of all ages

• All materials are provided

• Affordable and Portable

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is an effective intervention in two ways:

what is taught

and

how it is taught

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Phonemic Awareness

Phonics Fluency Vocabulary Text Comprehension

Content: What is taught 5 Essential Components of Reading Instruction

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1. Isolation 2. Identity 3 Categorization 4. Blending

5. Segmentation 6. Deletion 7. Addition 8. Substitution

1. Sentence Segmentation 2. Blending 3. Segmentation 4. Deletion

1. Blending 2. Segmentation 3. Deletion

1. Recognize Rhyme (Rhyming) 2. Generate Rhymes 3 Categorization 4. Blending 5. Segmentation

WORD LEVEL

SYLLABLE LEVEL

ONSET AND RIME LEVEL

PHONEME AND PHONEMIC AWARENESS

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Letter to Sound Correspondences – Initial, Final and Medial

Multisyllabic Words Syllable Types

CLOVER – Closed, Consonant LE, Open, Vowel Pair, Silent E and R Controlled

Syllable Division Rules VCCV, VCV – Option 1 and Option 2; VCCCV –

Before a suffix, After a prefix, Before Cle, Between two vowel sounds

Complex consonants Trigraphs, Silent letters, Hard and Soft g and c

Consonant Blends and Consonant Digraphs

CVC Words

Complex Vowels Long Vowel, Silent E, Predictable vowel teams, Unpredictable vowel teams, R controlled vowel

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Visual

Kinesthetic- Tactile

Link Auditory

“Conscious multisensory

procedures using the STUDENT’S

eyes, ears, hands and mouth help

to link the sound, sight and feel of spoken language

to the printed word on the

page.”

-Birsh and Schedler VAKT: Multisensory teaching

How is it taught?

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1. Read Sounds

2. Spell Sounds

3. Read Words

4. Spell Words

5. Introduce New Material

6. Read Aloud

Teach Underpinnings

Teach

New Material

Apply & Practice what’s

been learned

Template

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Phonics

Automaticity – quickly

& accurately

Template

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Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

Template

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Phonics – Blend known sounds into words automatically

Automaticity – Response is quick & accurate

Vocabulary – Direct & Indirect Instruction (check for definitions, context, multiple meanings, etc.)

Comprehension – Practice at word level eases transition to sentence level

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Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

Fluency – Read and write sentences with prosody (intonation, chunking, phrasing, quick & accurate)

Vocabulary – Direct & Indirect Instruction (check for definitions, context, multiple meanings, etc.)

Comprehension – Practice at sentence level eases transition to book level.

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Steps 1-4 in Lesson Plan repeated

Phonemic Awareness

Phonics

Automaticity – leads to fluency

Vocabulary

Comprehension

Template

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Phonemic Awareness – Blend sounds to pronounce words

Phonics – Apply rules to read words automatically

Fluency – Read with prosody to show meaning

Vocabulary – Direct & Indirect Instruction (check for definitions, context, multiple meanings, etc.)

Comprehension – All underpinning skills in place allows freedom for comprehension at text level.

Template – Time in lesson for

Comprehension and Vocabulary Practice

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How is different from

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Easy to follow lesson plans Easy to follow lesson plans

Direct & Explicit Direct & Explicit

31 Minute Lesson Plan 31 Minute Lesson Plan (Step 5: More New Information/Content introduced)

May need more teacher preparation

Simultaneous & Multisensory Simultaneous & Multisensory

Systematic & Cumulative Systematic & Cumulative

Teaches English Code (basic) Teaches English Code (upper level language structure)

Synthetic & Analytic Synthetic & Analytic

Progress Monitoring Progress Monitoring

Diagnostic & Prescriptive Diagnostic & Prescriptive

Entry Test: Requires student cognitive readiness

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• What is a syllable?

– A syllable is a word, or part of a word, with ONE vowel sound.

• Why teach syllables?

– Without a strategy for chunking longer words into manageable parts, students may look at a longer word and simply resort to guessing what it is — or skipping it altogether.

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C – Closed L – Consonant -le O – Open V – Vowel Pair E – Silent E R – R Controlled

2nd

1st

3rd

6 Syllable Types

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• What is Syllable Division?

– The process of breaking multisyllabic words into separate syllables in order to decode and encode.

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6 Syllable Division Patterns

• Pattern 1: VCCV

• Pattern 2: VCV

2(a) and 2(b)

• Pattern 3: VCCCV

• Pattern 4(a): Suffixes

• Pattern 4(b): Prefixes

• Pattern 5: Consonant -le

• Pattern 6: VV

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Greek-derived morphemes

Derivational Morphology: Anglo Saxon & Latin Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes

Inflectional Morphology

Common Syllables, Syllabication

Fluent Recognition of Word Families

300-500 “Sight Words”

Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondences

Phonological Awareness

K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7+

Steps in Teaching & Learning Printed Word Recognition in English (Moats, 2000: Speech to Print)

SS2

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• 8% of the people will be innovators

• 17% will be leaders

• 29% will be early adopters

• 29% will be late adopters

• 17% will be resisters

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Let’s raise the bar!

• Let’s be the innovators!

• Let’s stop the illiteracy cycle!

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Kids are worth whatever it takes!

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Winsor Learning Sonday System

Maria George Senior Consultant

828-850-2377 maria.george@winsorlearning.com

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