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
Literature
12/24%
Literary Elements
4 test items
@ least half
will score __
as %
or assessment
nomenclature
Years as
Issue
4.2 50% 75% 06-07,
07-08
Research &
Information
6/12%
Accessing Information
4 test items
5.1 63% 75% 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:
4.2
Fifth grade teachers will read a familiar fairy tale / textbook selection and facilitate a
classroom creation of a story map (i.e., characters, setting, problem resolution, theme, and
plot). Students will then work in small, collaborative groups to produce a story map which
demonstrates mastery of literary elements.
5.1
Fifth grade teachers will involve all students in cooperative learning groups, in which they
research topics of interest using reference sources provided. They will monitor
comprehension of accessed information with the use of graphic organizers. Fifth grade
students will show an understanding of research information / data by developing a brief
research paper using dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedias, Internet to gather information of
chosen research topic. Furthermore, students will credit the sources using text features, i.e.,
Italics, heading, sub heading, charts, maps… to organize and support and understand of
information. Students will learn how to use reference features such as citations, end notes,
and bibliography to locate information about a topic. Fifth grade teacher will demonstrate and
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