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The Title I Reading program at Mayfield Elementary school is designed to give targeted supplemental remediation to students of greatest need. As the gr. 4-6 Reading support teacher, I assist my students in several ways. My curriculum includes:

- Targeted remediation of student-specific reading skills as indicated by quarterly 4-sight assessments using web-based remediation programs

- Explicit and systematic teaching of the most effective research-based comprehension strategies and skills using high quality texts and a spiraled gradual release scaffolding

- Year-long motivational reading programs, incentives, and literacy opportunities to promote increasing culture of student literacy such as Book It!, Scholastic Summer Challenge, Read Across America, Oral Reading Competition, Scholastic Book Clubs

Our new Pennsylvania State Common Core Standards can be here.

All students in the Title I program are monitored for progress monthly using our Aimsweb program and quarterly using the 4-sight system of assessment. The Aimsweb program establishes norm-referenced targets of student achievement for each grade level in our school-wide benchmark screenings. Students who score below these benchmarks are invited to participate in the Title I program. The benchmarks for words read per minute are illustrated below: The 4-sight system of assessment affords teachers data on individual students as well as class-wide information. An individual student’s areas of deficiency are remediated using our Compass Learning program. Classroom teachers also use this information to remediate on a whole-class level those areas of greatest need.

Title I Progress Reports are issued quarterly with the regular report card release. Parent conferences occur in conjunction with school-wide parent conferences after each quarter. Progress Reports indicate the student’s latest benchmark and progress monitored scores as well as the target and rating for each, his or her independent reading goals and progress, areas of remediation, and future recommendations for the student. See the Illustration below:



Parents can support their students in reading in a number of ways. First, reading to your student has been proven by research to be one of the most beneficial activities for parents to do with children. Reading aloud to children increases comprehension skills, expands their knowledge base, expands their experience with texts, and creates positive reading habits that continue into adulthood. Second, provide reading opportunities for your children each day. Using real-world texts daily, like newspapers, magazines, schedules, cookbooks, etc, gives meaning and context to words for children. Also, frequently providing new reading sources to children from the local library, especially non-fiction texts, gives students the access to books needed to expand their reading comfort zones. Finally, our web-based remediation tool, Compass Learning, is available from home. Just follow the information below: []
 * Compass Learning **

The User Name is your student's ID/Lunch Number. The Password is "reading". The School is "Mayfield".