West Point Elementary School

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Mission Statement: Educate, Engage, and Empower Each student to succeed in a dynamic world.

Vision Statement: West Point Elementary School provides opportunities for all students to achieve their personal best and to become caring, respectful, and responsible citizens. Our school strives to create a differentiated learning environment to ensure that every child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. We work with the community to motivate and enable all students to be life-long 21st century learners.

Target Goals:

1. By 2013, all students will increase reading comprehension by analyzing and applying information read as measured by selected sytem-wide assessments

Instructional Intervention: Graphic Organizers

Students will use graphic organizers across the curriculum to improve reading comprehension. Graphic organizers samples include, but are not limited to the following examples: Venn diagram, Beginning, Middle, End, Word Web, Framing the Idea Story Map Organizer, Sequencing Organizer, Web Organizer, Web Organizer and Story Pyramid.

2: By June 2013, all students will increase communication skills through the use of the Six +1 Traits of Writing Model to write clearly and effectively across the curriculum as measured by selected system-wide (TerraNova 3 Language Arts subtests) and local assessments (Writing Prompts and 6 +1 Traits of Writing Rubrics).

Instructional Intervention: 6 + 1 Traits of Writing

Students will use a variety of activities to learn the traits (Ideas, organization, sentence fluency, conventions, word choice, voice & presentation) assess writing (6+1Traits of Writing Rubrics) and increase written communication skills clearly and effectively across the curriculum.