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
Literature
8/16%
Literary Elements
4 test items
@ least half
will score __
as %
or assessment
nomenclature
Years as
Issue
5.2 50% 75% 06-07,
08-09
Research &
Information
6/12%
Accessing information
6 test items
6.1 50% 67% 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:
5.2
Teachers will provide visual charts to show literal understanding. Teachers will have class
discussions of the literary elements along with assessments at the end of each lesson.
Teachers will provide silent sustained reading time during each school day.
6.1
Third grade teachers will compose Key Points and Inquiries utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy and
Multiple Intelligences in order to allow for student achievement in Accessing Information.
Third grade teachers will collaborate with the Library media Specialist and the Technology
instructor to assure student success. Third grade teachers will use a variety of print
resources in order to ensure student achievement including dictionaries, thesauruses,
atlases, encyclopedias and almanacs.
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