Title I Parent Meeting October 17 th & 19 th , 2011

1. Title I Parent MeetingOctober 17th & 19th , 2011 WELCOME PARENTS! Please sign in and take handouts on the table!

2. Title I Meeting Agenda • Welcome/Introductions  • What is Title I support? • How do students qualify for Title I support? • Overview of assessments used to determine Title I eligibility • Overview of ‘Guided Reading’ • Overview of ‘Fundations’

3. Meeting Agenda Continued • Complete Parent Involvement Report Card • PRIZE GIVE AWAY!!!  • If you have specific questions, concerns, or things you’d like to share about your child, please schedule a time to talk with Mrs. Sweeney at the end of the meeting. Thanks!!! 

4. Title I Support What is Title I Support? How do students qualify? Supplemental support in reading Specifically teach & reinforce: decoding & encoding skills, reading strategies, & comprehension skills Drill & practice of letters, sounds, and High Frequency Words In or outside of regular education classroom Small groups (5-8 students) Various assessments PSSA 4-Sight DIBELS Running Records to find Guided Reading Level Report Card Grades

5. Descriptions of Assessments PSSA & 4-Sight Tests DIBELS 4-Sight:given 3-4 times per year for grades 3rd-5th PSSA: given 1 time per yr. Predetermined range of levels based on how students perform Advanced Proficient Basic Below Basic Given 3 times per year for KG-5th First Sound Fluency Phoneme Segmentation Nonsense Word Fluency Oral Reading Fluency Retell & Quality of Retell

6. Running Records to find Guided Reading Levels • Student is given a text to read • Some pages they read aloud for teachers to score reading accuracy • Timed only to see how long it takes them to read • Student reads the rest of text independently • Then they are asked 5-10 comprehension questions • If student’s reading accuracy is below 90%, we bump down a level • If reading accuracy is between 90-94%, stay at this level and find comprehension score • If comprehension score is below 79%, we bump down a level

7. Instructional Reading & Comprehension Levels Reading Accuracy (# of words read correctly) Frustrational: less than 90% Accuracy Instructional: 90-95% Accuracy Independent: 96% or higher Reading Comprehension (text based, inferential, critical thinking questions) Frustrational: less than 79% Instructional: 80-94% Independent: 95% or higher

8. What is Guided Reading? • Creators: Fountas & Pinnell • Small group instruction • Groups based on Instructional Reading Fluency & Comprehension Levels • Reinforcing reading strategies & comprehension strategies • Students are applying the strategies • Teacher listens & takes observations of students as they read • Take notes on: fluency, reading errors, vocabulary, retelling what they read, what was the main event/details, etc. • Finally, students are given a review of reading performance & strategies to improve future reading tasks

9. What is ‘Fundations’ • Systematic, multi-sensory phonics & phonemic awareness program • Promotes the following: encoding (spelling) decoding (reading) reading fluency (reading smoothly in phrases, with expression and tone) • Letter/Sound Card Routine • Vowels-pink cards (long & short vowels) • Consonants-yellow cards • Glued Sounds (am, an, all, ing, ong, ank, etc.) • Trick Words- CAN’T SOUND OUT! (the, was, here, my, etc.) • Finger tapping • Phrasing/Swooping • Sentence Dictation • Tile Board

10. Parent Involvement Report Card • Please take some time to complete this report card • You don’t need to hand it in, but it’s more about acknowledging the GOOD THINGS YOU’RE DOING at home with your children and if there are any other areas that you can help your child and school.

11. Check Out These Websites!!! • http://www.education.state.pa.us- type in academic state standards to pull up all subjects • http:www.projectappleseed.org- this is the site that I took the Parent Involvement Report Card from; has TONS of great sources for PARENTS!!! • http://www. learningpage.com -FREE signup and provides books to download & print, worksheets on various skills • http://www.superteacherworksheets.com- has FREE printable worksheets in math, reading, writing, grammar, handwriting, graphic organizers • http://www.pppst.com- FREE Power Point Presentations on all sorts of topics and subjects to help reviewing skills at home

12. More Great Websites!!! • http://guysread.com- this site gives you lists of books that boys would be interested in reading, facts about why boys struggle reading or interest to read books • http://lazyreaders.com- this site gives you lists of books from children, young adult, to adult; the lists are quality books that won’t take forever to read • http://rif.org – Check out tips and activity ideas to motivate your child to read. An area just for parents! • http://starfall.com - Where children have fun learning to read! This site has interactive games that your child can play as they learn to read. It is a FREE site.

13. THANKS FOR COMING!!  • Please remember to take the handouts on the following: • List of Reading Strategies & Comprehension Skills • PSSA Performance Levels and Scores • Descriptions of Guided Reading Books • Ringlets on Phonemic Awareness and High Frequency Word Activities • Ringlets on Reading Fluency, Decoding & Encoding Strategies • Reading Fluency Packets ***PRIZE GIVE AWAY***