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Comprehensive Literacy Approach in Wappingers Central School District

The Wappingers Central School District employs a Comprehensive Literacy Approach that promotes a balanced program encompassing reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and thinking skills for all learners from primary to secondary levels. This method combines direct, guided, and independent instruction within authentic literacy experiences to enhance student engagement and success. Our goals are to establish a unified approach across 10 elementary schools, 2 junior highs, and 3 high schools, creating supportive environments where every reader can thrive.

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Comprehensive Literacy Approach in Wappingers Central School District

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  1. Comprehensive Literacy Approach What does the teaching of literacy skills look like in Wappingers Central School District?

  2. An effective literacy program includes a balance of time and attention to all aspects of communicating – reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and thinking – which develop simultaneously as learners grow into literacy. • This balanced approach addresses reading, writing, and word study contexts to support children’s learning at both primary, intermediate and secondary levels. • In terms of instruction, there is a balance between direct instruction, guided instruction, and independent learning embedded within the context of real literacy experiences.

  3. Our goals • To create common language across our 10 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools and 3 high schools. • To gain an understanding of how and why we teach literacy the way we do in Wappingers • To create classroom environments where all levels of readers feel successful and engagement in literacy tasks is high and rich

  4. Reading • Read-Aloud • Shared Reading • Guided Reading • Reader’s Workshop/Independent Reading • Assessments – Running Records (K-8) Developmental Reading Assessment(DRA) (K-3) Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) (4-8) Stanford Reading Assessment (7-12) Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) (K-2)

  5. Writing (Writing Process) • Interactive Writing • Independent Writing • Shared Writing • Writer’s Workshop • Assessments – Writing Benchmark Assessments (K-12) Six Trait Writing

  6. Please see website links for definitions of reading and writing modes of instruction

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