Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Instructional Focus: Kindergarten Reading / Language Arts
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: All Kdg. students will demonstrate reading/language arts proficiency at grade level or
above grade level on the Kindergarten Assessment Tool..
Achievement Objective / Benchmark (median scores or assessment nomenclature):
Standard Objective PASS Current %
or
assessment
nomenclature
Reading &
Literature/Phonological/
Phonemic Awareness
Begin to blend
phonemes to
form a word
2.6 (KAT)
Adequate
@ least half
will score
__ as %
or
assessment
nomenclature
Proficient
Years as
Issue
N/A
Reading &
Decoding/Phonics
Decoding
Identify the
alphabet by
sound
3.2 (KAT)
Adequate
Proficient
06-07,
07-08,
08-09
Interventions / Strategies:
The following research-based strategies have been chosen specifically to meet the needs of
students of each gender and race as well as those who are Special Needs or economically
challenged. Female students benefit from verbal interaction, descriptive narration, and
expressing emotional connections/experiences to the information. Male students benefit from
simple, analytic explanation, kinesthetic movement, and visual images to aid in retention of
information. According to Ruby Payne, economically challenged students, need to know the
“why” and “how” of a topic, before they can learn it. With those needs in mind, the following
interventions/strategies have been chosen:
2.6
The kindergarten teachers will use Elkonan boxes and bingo chips to motion word
phonemes. The children will push one chip into each box that has a phoneme and then use
all the phonemes to make the word.
3.2
The kindergarten teachers will use Marzano’s strategy of non-linguistic representation using
familiar items and pictures of items to link sounds to words and incorporate past experiences
and prior knowledge linking sounds to alphabet letters.
Instructional Technology Integrated Strategies
2.6 & 3.2
The Earobics program and Dr. Jean songs will be used by kindergarten teachers to increase
knowledge of sounds.
Procedural specificity will be detailed in individual teacher lesson plans.
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