Reading

Improve all students’ reading comprehension.

Rationale and Supporting Data 

The Dodge Elementary staff has been involved in implementing and making changes in the teaching of reading and writing in order to increase student achievement.  Guided Reading has played an integral part in this process.  Introducing a variety of comprehension strategies and asking questions at a higher level of thinking gives students many tools to be able to derive meaning from text.  Students have also been given more direct reading contact hours to practice skills while gaining the love of reading. 

Improvement Strategies

• Ensure a thorough understanding of Guided Reading processes and components.
• Investigate and implement The Daily Five by Boushey and Moser which fosters literacy independence in the elementary grades.
• Investigate and implement how to improve reading comprehension instruction using the Benchmark Assessment System
• Increase reading comprehension through summarization strategies to identify information and structure meaning with application.
• Increase methods of providing feedback to students while setting clear objectives.
• Provide opportunities for parent involvement in reading outside the school day.
• Increase the level of questioning techniques using Blooms’ Taxonomy

Schoolwide Indicators of Improved Learning

	05-06 Results	06-07 Results	07-08 Results
3rd-5th ITBS Total Reading Score (percentile and NCE)	50.6 %ile 50 NCE	49.1 %ile 49.5 NCE	53.3 %ile 57.1 NCE
3rd-5th District Reading Instructional Level Assessment (percent proficient)	56%	56%	52%
2nd-5th Grade District Reading Fluency Assessment percent proficient)	89%	86%	87%