Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Instructional Focus: 2nd Grade Reading / Language Arts
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: All second grade students will demonstrate reading/language arts proficiency at grade
level or above grade level on Benchmark Assessments.
Achievement Objective / Benchmark (median scores or assessment nomenclature):
Standard Objective PASS Current %
or
assessment
nomenclature
Reading/Literature/
Phonics/Decoding
Phonetic Analysis 2.1 (BA)
Emerging
@ least half
will score __
as %
or assessment
nomenclature
Developing
Years as
Issue
N/A
Reading/Literature/
Fluency
Read independent
level text
4.1 (BA)
Emerging
Developing
N/A
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:
2.1
Students are actively involved in small groups and peer groups to practice decoding skills
with phonics readers and making word activities.
4.1
Second grade teachers will provide tools to guide and direct all students to identify words
rapidly so that attention is directed toward the meaning of the text. Teachers will use literacy
groups to improve students’ reading fluency in the independent level text.
Instructional Technology Integrated Strategies
2.1 & 4.1
Second grade teachers will model and use www.starfall.com and www.PBSKids.org to help
reinforce students’ decoding skills and understanding in the area of fluency. Students will also
be allowed to use books on tape in the listening center.
Procedural specificity will be detailed in individual teacher lesson plans.
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