Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Instructional Focus: 3rd Grade Reading / Language Arts
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: All third grade students will demonstrate reading/language arts proficiency at grade
level or above grade level on the Oklahoma Core Curriculum Test.
Achievement Objective / Benchmark (median scores or assessment nomenclature):
Standard Objective PASS Current %
or
assessment
nomenclature
Vocabulary
12/24%
Comprehension/Critical
Literacy
24/48%
Synonyms,
Antonyms, &
Homonyms
3 test items
Summary &
Generalization
5 test items
@ least half
will score
__ as %
or
assessment
nomenclature
2.3 67% 83% N/A
Years
as Issue
4.3 40% 60% 07-08
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:
2.3
Third grade teachers will use interactive lessons to engage students in the usage of
synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms. Students will use word cards and play matching
games to match word cards with their matching synonym, antonym, or homonym.
4.3
Third grade teachers will utilize QAR (Question, Answer, and Relationship) Comprehension
Strategy when teaching reading. Students will also be regularly asked to retell the story to a
partner or to the larger group either verbally or as an illustration using sequencing words.
Teachers will ask which summary is the best when students are given four choices.
Walt Whitman SIPlan 0910.1 - Page 32