How is a Sheridan student selected for intervention?
Based on assessment scores, students are identified to receive additional, specialized instruction for the purpose of improving students' academic skills.
What is DIBELS?
DIBELS (Dynamic Indicator of Basic Early Literacy Skills) is an assessment given three times each year to all elementary school students in District 87. See link below for additional information.
What is a running record?
A running record is a tool to determine your child’s reading competence with specific levels (e.g. degrees of difficulty and types) of books. To take a record, a code is used to record detailed information while your child reads aloud from a book.
The record helps teachers see how well your child uses strategies to read words accurately and smoothly. When the oral reading is finished, your child is asked to tell all about what was read as though the teacher was someone who hadn’t heard it before. This retelling reflects how well your child understands what he reads. The teacher will also ask different types of questions about the book.
The record helps teachers see how well your child uses strategies to read words accurately and smoothly. When the oral reading is finished, your child is asked to tell all about what was read as though the teacher was someone who hadn’t heard it before. This retelling reflects how well your child understands what he reads. The teacher will also ask different types of questions about the book.
What is intervention?
Intervention (known as Multi-Tier System of Supports or MTSS) includes implementation of scientific research-based instruction and interventions in general education; monitoring and measurement of student progress in response to the instruction and interventions; and use of these measures of student progress to shape instruction and make educational decisions. This process includes:
- High quality, research-based instruction in general education.
- Universal (school-wide and district-wide) screening of academics in order to determine which students need closer monitoring or additional interventions.
- Multiple tiers of increasingly intense scientific, research-based interventions that are matched to student need.
- Use of a collaborative approach by school staff for development, implementation, and monitoring of the intervention process.
- Continuous monitoring of student progress during the interventions, using objective information to determine if students are meeting goals.
- Follow-up measures providing information that the intervention was implemented as intended and with appropriate consistency.
What is Lexia?
Lexia is a computer web-based program. Within Lexia, students are automatically placed at the proper level and work independently to develop their foundational reading skills. The program provides explicit, systematic, adaptive learning on foundational reading skills, scaffolding students as they struggle and advancing them to higher levels as they demonstrate proficiency.
Your child can log in to Lexia at home!
Your child can log in to Lexia at home!
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
Big Ideas in Beginning Reading focuses on the five BIG IDEAS of early literacy. Follow the links below to the University of Oregon website for additional information on the Big 5.