BROAD BROOK SCHOOL 20082009 Team Presentations

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BROAD BROOK SCHOOL2008-2009 Team Presentations

• Pre Kindergarten
• Kindergarten
• Grade 1

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District Strategic Improvement Goal

• East Windsor students must have the
  opportunity to obtain academic achievement to the
  highest level of their potential to insure that
  each individual becomes a productive and
  responsible member of society.

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Building Strategic Improvement Goals

• Broad Brook School students will increase
  performance in Language Arts by moving 10 of
  students from Levels 1, 2 and 3 to goal or above,
  as measured by CMT in the areas of reading and
  writing over the next two years.

• Broad Brook School students will increase
  performance in Mathematics by moving 10 of
  students from Levels 1, 2 and 3 to goal or above,
  as measured by CMT over the next two years.

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PreK Team Members

• Lauren Kukucka
• Yvette Chevaliar
• Rebecca Kwasnik
• Angel Kennedy

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SMART Goal

• By May 2009, 80 of all Pre K students will be
  able to sequence and retell a 3-part story using
  multiple word sentences.

• Mid-year Update
• January, 66 of students could sequence a 3 part
  story.
• April, data shows that 83 could
  sequence.-target met.
• 77 could retell a three part story.

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Choosing the SMART Goal

• Language is an essential skill for young children
  who will need to be able to express themselves
  orally before they can express themselves through
  writing and understanding reading.
• 10 of students have a first language other than
  English and an additional 17 have identified
  speech and language needs.

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Students Will Need to Know and Be Able To

• Use strategies to generate ideas for speaking,
  writing, and visual activities.(3.2b)
• Dictate and tell stories beginning to use
  organizational patterns appropriate to the mode
  of writing. (3.1c)

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What students will be doing-Performance Tasks

• Language screening
• Answering wh questions to describe details,
  events, or character traits and explain cause
  and effect
• Sequencing 3-5 pictures and describing what is
  happening in each picture

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What the teachers will be doing- Instructional
Strategies

• Read Alouds to encourage students to sequence
  events in the story (first, next, last)
• Reread stories to foster remembering, organizing
  information and sequencing.
• Modeling appropriate language and strategies.

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• Pre K Language Screening
• Anecdotal Records of Small and Whole Group
  Activities
• Checklists
• Teacher Developed Formative Assessments

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Kindergarten Team Members

• Julie Berry
• Dina Burns
• Stacy Willey

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SMART Goal

• By May 2009, 80 of Kindergarten students will
  demonstrate mastery on the State of CT
  Phonological Awareness Skills post test.

• Mid-Year Update
• In January, 32 of kindergarten students were
  proficient on the Initial sound fluency of the
  DIBEL.
• In February, 88 of students demonstrated mastery
  on the State of CT Phonological Awareness test.

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Reason for Choosing SMART Goal

• The results of this falls DIBEL indicated that
  14 of students scored in the intensive
  intervention range and 26 scored in the
  intervention range in the areas of Initial sound
  fluency and letter naming fluency.

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Students will know and be able to

• Develop phonemic awareness and understanding of
  the alphabetic principle.
• (1.3A)
• Use strategies to generate and develop ideas for
  speaking, writing and visual activities. (3.1b)

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What students are doing-Performance Tasks

• Identifying spoken words with similar initial
  sounds.
• Identifying spoken words with similar ending
  sounds.
• Producing groups of words orally that begin with
  the same initial sound.
• Segment and isolate initial, medial and final
  sounds of CVC words.

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What the teachers are doing-Instructional
Strategies

• Oral Language activities
• Phonemic awareness activities, including Fountas
  and Pinnell resources
• Writers Workshop
• Conferencing
• Modeling Writing
• Daily interactive sentence writing
• Road to the Code program

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• DIBEL Initial Sound Fluency
• DIBEL Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
• State of CT Phonemic Awareness Skills Test

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Grade 1 Team Members

• Amy Lupoli
• Laurie Felber
• Lynn Greer
• Marsha Francis
• Michelle Wylie
• Joelle Burgess

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SMART Goal

• By June 2009, 85 of the students will accurately
  decode and 75 of students will encode one
  syllable words using knowledge of sound/symbol
  relationship and the alphabetic principle.

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Reason for Choosing SMART Goal

• Fall DRA results showed that 35 of grade 1
  students met the district benchmark in the areas
  of decoding, fluency and comprehension.

• Mid-year Update
• 66 of students reached the independent level of
  accuracy at Level 12 on the DRA2.
• 56 decoded 18/20 words-target reached

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• List of 20 one syllable (CVC) words to decode
• DRA2
• List of 20 one syllable words to encode

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Students will know and be able to

• Select and apply strategies to facilitate word
  recognition and develop vocabulary in order to
  comprehend text. (1.3)
• Apply knowledge of letter-sound correspondence,
  structural and contextual clues to read and
  understand words.(1.3 a)
• Demonstrate use of capitalization, punctuation
  and spelling skills. (4.3 b)

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What Students Are Doing-Performance Tasks

• Phonics lessons and activities
• Short vowel books
• Short vowel sorts
• Readers Workshop
• Spelling practice and activities
• Sentence dictation

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What Teachers are Doing-Instructional Strategies

• Develop phonics lessons and activities from
  Fountas and Pinnell Phonics resources.
• Practice with student vowel books.
• Plan and develop lesson for Readers Workshop.
• Create mini-lessons for Writers Workshop.

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Measures Used to Collect Evidence of Student
Growth

• Common formative assessments
• Monthly Spelling Assessment
• Sentence Dictation
• Running Records
• Developmental Reading Assessment