INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOLIMPROVING STUDENT READING SKILLS

OUR GOALS:

•Increase the use of rigorous informational texts

• Implement independent reading assignments using high-interest text that allow students “choice and voice” in reading materials

1. Varied Strategies 2. Just-in-Time Direct Instruction 3. Choice and Voice 4. Mastery Based Assessment 5. Choice for Demonstrating Learning 6. Flexible Pacing 7. Co-Plan Learning

7 Principles of Personalized Learning Intuitive

Penny Kittle wants us to face the hard truths every English teacher fears: too many kids don’t read the assigned texts, and some even manage to slip by without having ever read a single book by the time they graduate. As middle and high school reading declines, college professors lament students’ inability to comprehend and analyze complex texts, while the rest of us wonder: what do we lose as a society when so many of our high school graduates have no interest in reading anything?

“I believe each of my students must craft an individual reading life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I’ve discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a non-reader to reading. It’s never too late.”—Penny Kittle

CLASSROOM LIBRARIES

CHOICE BOARDS & READING LOGS

Student Created Literary Analysis Websites

• http://danielabeauchamp10.wixsite.com/mysite

• http://dosseyrk.wixsite.com/tooedgy4u

• https://yemimabi87.wixsite.com/mysite

LANGUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENT READING INITIATIVE

LANGUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENT READING INITIATIVE

LANGUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENT READING INITIATIVE

NONFICTION TEXTS

NON-FICTION TEXT ANNOTATIONS

STUDENT READING GOALS TRACKING SHEET

USA TEST PREP STUDENT REPORT

Reading & Writing Assessments

• Given to all 9th and 11th

students in Reading & Writing• ELA teachers have been using

these reports to conference with students to set goals to improve their own Reading and Writing Skills

• Reading Literature & Reading Informational texts

• All students tested in Fall 2016

• Language Arts teachers have been tracking growth for bottom 30% of students –offering students incentives to prove growth on test each quarter

LANGUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENT READING INITIATIVE

LANGUAGE ARTS DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENT READING INITIATIVE