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Program

What we’re doing, and things you might be able to use. . .

Why it works:

• CollaborationCollaboration• Administrative Administrative

SupportSupport• TimeTime• PerseverancePerseverance

Components of the program:•Scholastic Scholastic

Reading InventoryReading Inventory•Scholastic Scholastic

Reading Counts!Reading Counts!•Reading TigersReading Tigers

SRI uses

Lexile measurement.• Interpreted as a book level

that a student can read with 75% comprehension

• 75% comprehension is the level identified by experts as offering the reader a certain amount of comfort and yet still offering a challenge

Lexile Equivalents AMS Targets

Grade 6 – 1000L

Grade 7 – 1100L

Grade 8 – 1200L

SRI determines

Lexile level and range.

• 920L

• 820 - 970

AMS students who are currently at or above

Target:

• 6th: 56 of 239 • 7th: 57 of 242 • 8th: 75 of 237

Reading Counts!

• RC can be configured to allow student to take a quiz more than once.

• RC has a bank of 30 questions for each quiz, so each quiz taken is a little different.

Why do we use RC rather than AR?

FLEXIBILITY!

Reading Counts!

Reading Counts!

Reading Tigers Originated and designed

by the

teachers.

AMS

ELA

Some Statistics. . .Number of quizzes passed/books read last year: 

6-1     1,147     =  15.5   books per student6-2     1,490     =   18.2 6-3     1,251     =   16.5  7-1     1,626     =   22 7-2     1,068     =   14.4 7-3      718        =   10  8-1     1,324      =   17 8-2     1,158      =   15 8-3      669        =   8.8  Total  10,451  books read (quizzes passed)

Average  15.3  books per student read this year.  (Some have read none, some have read far more, of course.)

Some Statistics. . .Students who read 25 books last year:  6-1    236-2    256-3    20 7-1    257-2    307-3    11 8-1    158-2    198-3    25 TOTAL    191 out of 689 students

Some Statistics. . .Lexile goals met (or maintained grade target) at end of second semester: 6-1    28 6-2    326-3    33 7-1    407-2    607-3    31 8-1    298-2    248-3    46 Gateway    64Henderson     7 TOTAL    394 out of 689 students

How it all works, from four perspectives:• ELA TeacherELA Teacher• Student Support TeacherStudent Support Teacher• Media SpecialistMedia Specialist• AdministrationAdministration

Marie Carney ELA

Teacher

Elizabeth Henderson Student

Support ELA Teacher

Tommy TatumMedia

Specialist

Suzi Lance Assistant Principal

Adairsville Middle School

Some final thoughts. . .

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