Whitman Elementary - Tulsa Public Schools

Grade / Instructional Focus: 5th Grade Reading / Language Arts
Groups: _X_ Regular; _X_ IEP; _X_ ELL; _X_ Econ. Disadvantaged; _X_ Race; X_ Gender
Goal: All fifth 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
20/40%
Affixes, Roots, &
Stems
4 test items
Inferences &
Interpretations
6 test items
@ least half
will score
__ as %
or
assessment
nomenclature
1.2 50% 75% N/A
Years as
Issue
3.2 50% 67% 06-07
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:
1.2
Fifth grade teachers will provide direct instruction through repeated word knowledge
activities, and then allow for cooperative and independent practice (i.e., making words, word
sorts, word hunts). Use of systemic phonics will enable students to identify suffixes, roots and
stems in words.
3.2
Fifth grade teachers will utilize QAR (Question Answer Relationship) comprehension strategy
when teaching reading to help students apply prior knowledge and experiences to make
inferences and respond to new information presented in various texts. Teachers will use
“Where Am I in the Puzzle” to make connections to events, characters, settings, and plots
from texts.
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