LITERACY 2014 -  OUR VISION

By 2014, The Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School will be a recognized leader and advocate for literacy and for championing the usage of cutting edge technological tools as well as expeditionary learning to infuse the development of literacy skills within all aspects of school life. Our school will be viewed as the “Champion of Literacy and Reading Development” within the Boston Public Schools. We will also be lauded nationally and internationally for successfully educating a diverse array of learners in developing a life-long love of reading. 

It is our fundamental belief that all students can and will succeed. Therefore as a result of our collaborative efforts, LGF students will become highly literate young scholars who are aware of the world and of their responsibility to engage in it. 

The LGF faculty will be comprised of leaders and scholars who are exemplars of what it means to be successful highly literate contributors to society, inspired by a shared vision of literacy and academic excellence, sustained by thoughtful and well-developed systems of support and accountability. 

Our professional learning community will be one in which the best practices for teaching reading are modeled, implemented and explicitly taught. Collectively, all staff, parents, community members, partners, and students will work to ensure that the culture of our school community embraces the power and joy of literacy across all content areas as measured by improved formative assessments and resulting in empowered students, families and educators. 

Through high expectations and differentiated instruction we will created a positive, nurturing and educational environment that promotes literacy in all disciplines. Evidence of our success will be apparent in the fact that LGF students will teach other students, family and community members to become powerful readers and writers.

Links to Literacy Tech Resources

Below are links to a number of different software packages that we are considering as tools to enhance the literacy skills of our students. Please feel free to check out all the sites and report back to Betsy Drinan or any Literacy Team member with your input.
We will be scheduling demos of specific software packages over the next few months. Teachers can check back here for a calendar as soon as dates have been confirmed. All teachers are welcome to attend the demo sessions.
Links
Achieve3000
The following files are located for download in the FILES section to the right.
- Achieve3000 Mational Lexile Study (Nov. 2006)
- Achieve3000 Spanish Support
- Achieve3000 "Research to Practice"
- Achieve3000 KibBiz & TeenBiz UserIDs and Guide

Riverdeep, Destination Reading

Voyager Learning

Scholastic's ReadAbout

Differentiated reading and writing classroom instruction Gr. 3-8

Jamestown Reading Navigator

This highly innovative program is targeted at middle school and high school students reading at least two levels below grade level. The program is designed to be used by all teachers, regardless of their training.

Jamestown Reading Navigator is an online and print-based program built upon the latest research in adolescent literacy, Reading Next. The online component of Jamestown Reading Navigator improves students’ comprehension by utilizing direct, explicit instruction and modeling of good reading practices. Students practice and apply these reading strategies and skills by reading highly engaging content, viewing interactive multimedia, and writing in response to reading. The print-based readings from the inTime magazines and the inClass Reader anthologies give students an opportunity to extend their learning beyond the computer and encourage collaborative or independent learning. Teachers can monitor student progress utilizing the
online Learner Management System where scores from formative and
summative assessments are recorded.

Read Naturally

Builds fluency

Lexia Learning

Kurzweil

Renaissance Learning

Intervention program - Interest Level gr. 4 and up, RL 2- 5.5

http://www.renlearn.com/ar/ Accelerated Reader

Supports and monitors independent reading

http://www.renlearn.com/starreading/overview/default.htm STAR Reading - 10 minute Assessment and Tracking, Gr. 1-12

 

Accelerated Reader is a pretty well known/well used product which supports
independent reading by tracking reading and testing comprehension. They have
quizzes on 100,000 books. There's a one time cost of $2,799 and then annual
fees of $1000 per 250 kids and $4 per kid after ( probably around $2500 per
year for us).

STAR Reading which is a computer adaptive reading test from gr. 1-12. It is
a 10 minutes test that provides norm referenced reading scores. There is a
one time school fee of $1499 and then an annual fee per student of $.39. It
can be given multiple times throughout the year with no additional cost.

ReadNow Power Up which is an intervention program for struggling readers in
gr. 5-9. This is a total program which includes books, workbooks, audio
support etc is similar to a Read 180. The one time 24 student classroom
costs $13,495 and then annual coasts are $39.95 per student. I imagine this
would be a program that would be used for a targetted group of kids..the 2
year below grade level students we have identified in each academy.

Houghton Mifflin

Don Johnson Co Many products focused on writing, phonics, Building historical prior knowledge and more.

Technology Reviews from the Florida Center for Reading Research


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