DoDDS-Pacific/DDESS-Guam Literacy Project |
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The Pacific Area Literacy Project is a three-tiered approach to providing reading instruction so that all children will be successful. |
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DoDEA ELA Standards |
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Balanced Literacy Framework |
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• Read Alouds, Shared Reading , Guided Reading , and Independent Reading
• Modeled Writing, Shared Writing, Guided Writing, and Independent Writing |
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DoDEA Adopted Materials |
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• Scholastic Literacy Place
• Scholastic Blue Guided Reading |
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Tier 2 encompasses supplemental reading services that: |
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Provide short-term supplemental reading services for struggling readers |
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Establish a system for identification of struggling readers that is explicit and understood by all teachers |
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Provide a way to monitor the movement of students in and out of the supplemental services |
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Ensure the alignment of supplemental services to the core reading program (Tier 1) and ensure that reading support supplements, not supplants, the core reading program |
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Tier 3 is for those struggling readers who need more intensive and long term reading support than can be offered through supplemental services. |
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Literacy Facilitator: The Pacific Literacy Project provides for a literacy facilitator in every DoDDS Pacific school. The primary role of the literacy facilitator is to serve as a staff developer for classroom teachers and specialists to support struggling readers. They assist teachers with lesson planning, co-teaching, and demonstration lessons and provide assistance to teachers and literacy support specialists through study groups, training, and facilitating peer observations.
Literacy Support Specialist: Literacy Support Specialists will also be in all Pacific Area elementary schools and are comprised of educators who are currently serving as Comp Ed, LARS, RIS, and Reading Recovery and who provide direct reading instruction to struggling readers and writers. |
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Literacy Teams: Literacy partnership teams will be established at each school to ensure that struggling readers are identified and that, in collaboration with the classroom teacher and Literacy Support Specialists, struggling readers are provided the services they need. Schools will have one literacy support specialist for every 221 students, grades one through six.
Literacy Coordinator: A Literacy Coordinator will be part of the elementary team at the Pacific Area Office to provide direction and leadership for the Pacific Literacy Project.
The Pacific Literacy Project has been developed to ensure quality, consistency, and accountability. The DoDEA Community Strategic Plan has established a milestone that all students will be proficient readers by Grade 3. This project is intended to take what we are doing well and refine it to provide better reading instruction for all our students.
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Read 180: Read 180 is a comprehensive, researched based, reading intervention program for struggling readers designed by Scholastic. The program addresses individual needs through instructional software, high-interest literature, and direct instruction on reading skills. Read 180 Stage A is designed for students in Grades 4-6 and in some cases Grade 3 students may be served. A Literacy Support Specialist and an LI teacher will be trained to teach Read 180. The Read 180 program will help provide support services identified for children in Tier 2 and/or Tier 3 services.
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