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Mountie Mentoring We officially have 22 high school students currently volunteering during their study hall period at the elementary, giving PreK through 5th grade students the opportunity to interact with Mapleton's finest. | Our FocusPhonological Awareness is the precursor to Phonics and it's a foundational piece for reading to occur. Our district is focusing on it first because the majority of our struggling readers K-12 have gaps in P.A. After students have taken their Aimsweb Assessment, the students will be given a P.A. Diagnostic Assessment. The literacy team will then inform you on Tier 2 Interventions to implement moving forward. If a student passes the P.A. Diagnostic or is an older student with less than 97% accuracy, they will then be given a decoding survey. | Explicit InstructionWatch the video below for more information about explicit instruction from one of our favorites, Dr. Anita Archer. |
Mountie Mentoring
Our Focus
Phonological Awareness is the precursor to Phonics and it's a foundational piece for reading to occur. Our district is focusing on it first because the majority of our struggling readers K-12 have gaps in P.A. After students have taken their Aimsweb Assessment, the students will be given a P.A. Diagnostic Assessment. The literacy team will then inform you on Tier 2 Interventions to implement moving forward. If a student passes the P.A. Diagnostic or is an older student with less than 97% accuracy, they will then be given a decoding survey.
Explicit Instruction
Watch the video below for more information about explicit instruction from one of our favorites, Dr. Anita Archer.
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Vowel Valley The vowel sounds are often displayed as a V-shaped valley because they are organized by the position of the mouth and jaw. All vowel sounds are continuous, voiced, and open. While sound walls are intended for students to use PreK-5th Grade, they will be used at an individual, as needed basis in middle school and beyond. | Tools 4 Reading Our district purchased sound wall materials from Tools 4 Reading to ensure that students will continue to see the same sound wall tools throughout their education. A sound wall is intended to replace a word wall at the elementary level. So words can be placed on a sound wall according to their initial sound or the "tricky" part. | Consonant ChartA consonant chart lists all of the consonant sounds for a given language and organizes them by place of articulation and manner of articulation. We would highly encourage other content areas to display sound wall posters in the future as a tool for struggling students to use when writing. |
Vowel Valley
While sound walls are intended for students to use PreK-5th Grade, they will be used at an individual, as needed basis in middle school and beyond.
Tools 4 Reading
A sound wall is intended to replace a word wall at the elementary level. So words can be placed on a sound wall according to their initial sound or the "tricky" part.
Consonant Chart
A consonant chart lists all of the consonant sounds for a given language and organizes them by place of articulation and manner of articulation.
We would highly encourage other content areas to display sound wall posters in the future as a tool for struggling students to use when writing.
Bringing Words to Life
Starting to learn new words effectively "...is important, because learning new words is a journey that goes well beyond being presented with information about their meaning." -Page 41
Get it here.
Equipped for Reading Success
In recent years, scientists have made great strides in understanding how children learn to read, as well as how to prevent and correct most reading difficulties. However, the American Federation for Teachers, the Journal of Learning Disabilities, and School Psychology Review have all highlighted the fact that these findings have not become widely known or used in our schools. Equipped for Reading Success is designed to summarize these research results in a clear and easy-to-read manner, bringing teachers up-to-date on these exciting findings.
"There is no age where a student is "too old" for phoneme awareness training - if the skills have not been mastered, the students should get training." -Page 18
You can find it on Amazon here.
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Aimsweb+ Winter BenchmarkDistrict Wide: January 18th-28th, 2022 | Professional Development Day February 4th, 2022 | Scholastic Book Fair May 2nd-6th, 2022 at the Elementary School |
Aimsweb+ Winter Benchmark
District Wide:
January 18th-28th, 2022
Professional Development Day
Scholastic Book Fair
at the Elementary School
GOT BOOKS?
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Shelby OrtizDISTRICT LITERACY COORDINATOR | Cassie Newcomer | Cassie Swanson |
