Differentiating Instruction in K2 Reading

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• Differentiating Instruction in K-2 Reading

Halina Robertson, Principal Matt Schleider,
BRIC Center Support Coordinator Piney Grove
Elementary School
Ann Hardin, Acting Principal and former BRIC
Center Support Coordinator Montclaire Elementary
School
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Piney Grove Kindergarten DIBELS 03-04 to 05-06

• Notice the percentage of incoming (fall) students
  at Benchmark has declined, yet the percentage or
  outgoing (spring) has increased!
• Were on track to end 05-06 with about 87 of
  kindergarten students at Benchmark.

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Piney Grove First Grade DIBELS 03-04 to 05-06

• Unlike Kindergarten, the percentage of incoming
  students at Benchmark is increasing. This
  suggests gains made in Kindergarten are
  maintained over the summer.
• Were on track to end 05-06 with about 84 of
  first grade students at Benchmark.

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Piney Grove Second Grade DIBELS 03-04 to 05-06

• We almost doubled the percent of students at
  Benchmark from the spring of 03-04 to spring of
  04-05.
• Even if the percentage of students at Benchmark
  at spring of 05-06 remains at 74, we will end
  the year 15 percentage points above spring 04-05.

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Closing The Achievement Gap2nd Grade Oral
Reading Fluency

• Notice the gap between the struggling readers and
  the DIBELS benchmarks decreases from fall to
  winter.
• A trend line continuing to the spring

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Closing The Achievement Gap2nd Grade Oral
Reading Fluency

• A trend line continuing to the spring shows the
  struggling readers, on average, meet the spring
  DIBELS benchmark.

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Our Reading Model

• Instruction and Intervention for all K-2 Students

Primary Level (BRIC) Universal Access (CMS)
Benchmark (DIBELS) Instruction for all
students
Open Court
Secondary Level (BRIC) Targeted Intervention
(CMS) Strategic Level (DIBELS)
Tertiary Level (BRIC) Intensive Intervention
(CMS) Intensive Level (DIBELS)
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Secondary Tertiary Interventions
May or may not be during IWT
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Scheduling Secondary Tertiary Level
Interventions

• Piney Grove
• Who K-2 Instructional Assistants
• When Common grade level intervention periods
  during IWT
• Benefits
• Triple available tutors at each grade level.

• Montclaire
• Who Instructional Assistants Reading Teachers
• When Simultaneous scheduling of IWT and
  specials.
• Benefits
• Double available tutors at each grade level.
• Intervention space in first grade classrooms.

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Is it Working??? Responsiveness-To-Intervention
(RTI)

• DIBELS Progress Monitoring
• Administered by classroom teachers
• DIBELS Intensive Level Weekly assessment
• DIBELS Strategic Level Bi-Monthly assessment
• DIBELS Benchmark but S/I in fall Monthly
  assessment

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1st Grade, Phoneme Segmentation Fluency
Winter Benchmark Progress Monitoring
Instructional Decision Point add multisensory
techniques
Aimline
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Responding to Progress MonitoringInstructional
Decision Making

• Stay
• Continue intervention and progress monitoring as
  is
• Change
• Re-group students
• Provide intervention as 11 instead of small
  group
• Change reading program
• Change tutor
• Add
• Multisensory techniques
• Two lessons per day
• Preteach/reteach skills before/after lesson
• Last Resort
• Referral to Intervention Team
• Referral for EC Evaluation

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Students at Benchmark Level

• At Benchmark Fall and Winter
• K, Focus on
• Writing
• AR
• Informational Texts
• 1st, Focus on
• Oral reading fluency
• AR
• Writers Workshop
• 2nd, Focus on
• High level reading comprehension
• Reading for detail
• Inference
• Cause/effect
• AR

• At Benchmark in Winter, but were Strategic or
  Intensive in Fall
• K, Focus on
• Writing, but with modifications and more support
• AR
• 1st, Focus on
• High level phonemic awareness and decoding
• AR
• 2nd, Focus on
• Oral reading fluency and reading comprehension
  using controlled text from Reading Mastery II.
• AR

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Contact Information

• Piney Grove
• 980-343-6470
• Halina Robertson
• halina.robertson_at_cms.k12.nc.us
• Matt Schleider
• matt.schleider_at_cms.k12.nc.us
• Copies of PPT available at http//education.uncc.
  edu/bric/

• Montclaire
• 980-343-3635
• Ann Hardin
• ann.hardin_at_cms.k12.nc.us