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Elementary
(K-5)
-> Resource
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Resource
(Grades K-4)
K-4 resource
room uses a structured, sequential, multisensory phonics approach to
help students acquire needed skills to become more proficient readers
and spellers. Focus is on phonemic awareness, phonics,
comprehension, vocabulary and fluency development. Dibels
(Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) screenings are
administered at the beginning of the year, early January, and late
April to assess the above five skill areas using grade appropriate
measures. These results as well as consultation with and input
from homeroom teachers are used as a basis to implement a resource room
plan.
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Kindergarten
Students
who did not show benchmark proficiency work on any or all of these
essential prereading skills:
- Naming
the upper and lower case letters of the alphabet
- Identifying
beginning sounds
- Blending individual sounds into words
- either nonsense or real ex. bip
or can
- Segmenting words into their
individual sounds such as too
or rink
Students are progress-monitored
periodically to check for growth.
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First Grade
Students are
screened in alphabet recognition, blending and segmenting sounds. In
January, the oral reading fluency screening is added.
Students who get help in the resource room receive instruction in these
areas:
- The common sounds for, as well
as, how to write the consonants, digraphs, beginning and ending blends
and the short vowel sounds as read in closed syllables
- The long vowel sounds as found
in open, "magic e" and some
vowel teams
- The R-controlled vowels
- Vowel teams
- The -cle syllables
- Multiple spellings for many
sounds, especially the long vowel sounds
- Other common sounds and endings
- How to sound out words for
spelling with better accuracy
- Concept of a syllable
- The six syllable types and how
that affects the vowel sounds in them
- The syllable division pattern: vc/cv
- Common sight words
- Oral reading to apply the above
skills and build more automaticity and fluency
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Second
Grade
Students are screened in their ability to blend real and nonsense
words, oral reading fluency, and comprehension. Instruction
includes review of what was learned in Grade One. They then
continue to build from the simple to more complex by reviewing and
adding these skills:
- All six syllable types and the
vowel sounds in them
- Add syllable division patterns
of: vcccv, vccccv, v/cv, and vc/v
- Introduction of more sounds both
common and uncommon
- Spelling rules for words with
short vowel sounds
- Continued work on identifying
the 224 most often read words with an eventual goal of 100% mastery
- Write dictated sentences that
are proofread for capitals, punctuation, and spelling
- Oral reading practice to apply
the skills learned and to build fluency and rate, as well as,
comprehension
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Third
Grade
Students are
screened in oral reading fluency and comprehension.
Instruction in resource includes review of previously introduced skills
such as syllable types and the vowel sounds in them, individual sounds,
spelling rules and the syllable division patterns. New skills
include:
- Syllable division pattern of v/v and prefix/root/suffix.
- Dividing multisyllabic words as an
aid in decoding.
- Schwa
- More unusual sounds
- Continued work on 100% reading
and spelling mastery of the 224 words that are most often used.
- Spelling changes when adding
endings like the doubling rule, change y to i, and dropping the e before adding an ending.
- Write dictated sentences and
proofread for capitals, punctuation, and spelling.
- Oral reading practice to apply
the above word attack skills, to build rate, automaticity, and fluency
as well as comprehension.
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Fourth Grade
Students are screened in oral
reading fluency and comprehension.
Instruction in resource includes review of previously introduced skills
such as syllable types and the vowel sounds in them, individual sounds,
spelling rules and the syllable division patterns. New skills
include:
- Syllable division pattern of v/v and prefix/root/suffix.
- Dividing multisyllabic words as an
aid in decoding.
- Schwa
- More unusual sounds
- Continued work on 100% reading
and spelling mastery of the 224 words that are most often used.
- Spelling changes when adding
endings like the doubling rule, change y to i, and dropping the e before adding an ending.
- Write dictated sentences and
proofread for capitals, punctuation, and spelling.
- Oral reading practice to apply
the above word attack skills, to build rate, automaticity, and fluency
as well as comprehension.
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Fifth
Grade
- Students in Miss Cepowski’s Math
class have been using Mrs. Lord for assistance with math work.
- Students also are allowed to use the
Resource Room as a quiet place to complete homework.
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