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Action Plan
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Goal: Increase struggling 3rd
grade bilingual students’ reading levels and scores in Spanish, while at the
same time increasing their command of English.
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Action Steps(s):
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Person(s) Responsible:
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Analyze data from
Istation Español and look at current grades in order to identify struggling
students struggling with Spanish reading.
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Third Grade Bilingual
Teachers; Intervention Specialist
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Start: 10/15/12
End: 10/19/12
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-Istation Español
reports
-ARI criteria
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Students who meet ARI
criteria in Spanish.
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Analyze reading data
from TELPAS in order to identify students struggling with development of
English.
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Third Grade Bilingual
Teachers; Intervention Specialist
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Start: 10/15/12
End: 10/19/12
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-Second grade TELPAS
scores
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Students who scored
“Beginner” or “Intermediate” in 2nd grade TELPAS Reading Test
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Administer BOY tests
to identified students in English and Spanish
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Third Grade Bilingual
Teachers; Intervention Specialist
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Start: 10/22/12
End: 11/02/12
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-Access to VPORT
-Pasaportes & Language! assessment
materials
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Results will be
reported on VPORT
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Administer
intervention from Pasaportes and Language! 30 minutes daily
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Third Grade Bilingual
Teachers; Intervention Specialist
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Start 11/12
End 5/12
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-Pasaportes and Language! teacher
and student materials
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-Intervention
documented in weekly lesson plans
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Monitor progress in
reading assessments
-Create a monitor
group on AWARE
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Third Grade Bilingual
Teachers; Intervention Specialist; Academic Specialist
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Start 11/12
End 6/12
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-Access to VPORT,
AWARE, and Istation
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-Movement into higher
tier level at the middle and end of the year resulting in students reading in
Tier 1 in Spanish
-Gradual increase in
reading CSCOPE assessments throughout the year
-80% passing rate on
STAAR Spanish Reading Test
-EOY data in Language! reflects at least 1 ½ years
gain in English
-Students increase by
at least one level on 3rd Grade Reading TELPAS
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Interview district
coordinator in charge of bilingual intervention to gather feedback about
implementation and share data gathered
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Principal; District
Coordinator; Intervention Specialist
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5/12
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Gain insight into
implementation process and evaluate decisions for the next year
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Action Research Plan
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Your plan looks good. I've used Language! Before its a great program. Do you have a plan to reevaluate n case they don't all show improvement? Are they being pulled from their regular classes or is the classroom teacher doing the intervention? Looking forward to reading about your progress :)
ReplyDeleteEverything looks good! I would also like to know how they are doing and if this is a pull out program or is it something that a classroom teacher can do in the classroom? I am already conducting after school tutorials!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Julie and Mary-your plan looks great. I also would like to know if this is a pull out program, or if it is something a classroom teacher can do in the classroom. Great job! I look forward to following your research!
ReplyDeleteDoes you library have a reading program for students? I remember when I was in middle school my school had a program that helped me. The teacher would take us to the library to get books on something we liked and at our level. After I fished my book there was a computer test and it gave point for passing. At the end of the six weeks we used our point to buy things. This motivated me to read more and my reading level increased. If your school has a reading program that is similar to this you might want to include it. Hope this helps for week four assignment.
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies! Julie, I'm happy to hear that you had a good experience with it. Right now we have two classrooms where the teachers are providing the intervention in small groups. As the interventionist, I am pushing-in to one of the other classrooms to provide it during guided reading groups. I think one thing we might re-evaluate once we see results is to look at how the program was implemented in each classroom. One thing I try to remember is that a program isn't going to fix the problems, it's the teaching that goes on. I hope to have my administrator and the district coordinator assist with doing walk-throughs while the intervention is taking place.
ReplyDeletePaola, my library doesn't have anything like that, but we are looking into anything to get our students motivated to read. I will have to look into that! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, your blog is so cute, and eye-friendly! It was a pleasure looking around!
ReplyDeleteI think your plan looks great. Will it make a difference in your plan if the parents don't mark on their registration form that their primary language is not English? Also, I like that you go into the classroom for intervention. As a classroom teacher, I'm fighting the battle of losing precious class-time for my students that have to be pulled out for multiple interventions. It's probably just a control thing. I just feel so much pressure to have my kids ready, and I get frantic that they're missing things, even though I know how badly they need this intervention.
Are you only administering the Istation assessment three times (as a Universal Screen)? That's what I gathered from your plan. If so, you might consider pulling these children aside once a month and re-administering the Istation assessment so that you can use the various aspects of that program to monitor progress with greater frequency and to help find tune your interventions to the areas of greatest need (and so you don't have to wait four or five or six months to find out that the intervention(s) you've tried aren't working with Child X, Child Y, and Child Z, and that they need something more or something different). When you consider that the test is, on average only thirty to forty minutes, that's not a long time when you consider that you might learn that you have just wasted months with an intervention that didn't make a dent.
ReplyDeleteI'm also totally in agreement with Paola. A reading program is a must. The more they read, the faster they will assimilate the language. You can look at Accelerated Reader by Renaissance Learning or Reading Counts by Scholastic. Both are decent programs for tracking student reading and rewarding students on a point system.
That was supposed to be "fine tune"...not "find tune". I'm being too hasty trying to comment on as many blogs as I can. Sorry.
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