Plan for: Jefferson Primary School
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Our Title 1 PDSA began as a result of frustration over achievement in reading and assessments that were not giving us meaningful information. We investigated two approaches that we felt were important to reading achievement--fluency and comprehension. Through our search for resources we found fluency resources from "Read Naturally." Using these resources we assess fluency for our second and third graders on a monthly basis. We had done some piloting of comprehension materials from "Curriculum Associates. We began administering the CARS in October and by our SIP day in January had enough data points to do an analysis of student performance.

In addition to the software from the company, we developed an Excel spreadsheet to identify which students were in need of instruction on which sub-skills. We are continuing to adminster the CARS assessment on a monthly basis and will have 5 more data points by the end of May.

Our fluency scores have steadily increased throughout the year with few exceptions. Our information tells us that if a child has a median score of 80 correct words per minute out of 3 consecutive scores then we should move them up a grade level in fluency assessment. We have determined that if a student demonstrates the same level of mastery at the grade level above their placement, then we no longer need to be concerned with fluency assessment.

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