First Grade Reading Performance

Three first grade teachers and a Reading recovery teacher decided to track performance of students in four areas of reading. Their assessments coincided with the district SAI cycles in the fall winter and spring. Teachers involved in the project were Pam Wallinger, Tiffany Cascia, Debi Grossweiler and Myra Branch. We learned a number of interesting things from the project. · Student performance in reading levels was higher on average than in years past by at least 3 levels · Instruction was targeted to specific students on specific needs based on the assessments · Performance on the dictation assessment capped out at about 35 and further assessments were uninformative. This project provided us with baseline data we can use to monitor student achievement in future years. We want to continue to monitor student performance in reading to see if results are consistent across years · Second and third grade teachers would like to develop a tool to assess performance which informs instruction equally as well results of the assessment are below.