2024-2025 Implementation (Grades 5K-3)
Overview: BDUSD’s Early Literacy Support Process
BDUSD is committed to high levels of learning for every student. This includes our pursuit of every student reading at or above grade level. The following is an overview of our process to support learners at the Grades 5K-3 level.
- Students are provided grade level instruction in literacy using our approved literacy resource, Into Reading. The grade level teacher(s) provide additional instruction for students who are not meeting essential learning in a unit of study.
- Each student is administered the state determined reading readiness screener three times per year. One is administered in the fall, one in mid-year, and one in the spring. Guardians are notified of the assessment results.
- Students who score below the 25th percentile on this assessment will have additional assessments administered, referred to as diagnostic assessments, by a qualified reading teacher. The purpose is to more specifically determine the literacy needs of the student. Guardians are notified of the assessment results.
- Students who received diagnostic assessments will have a Personal Reading Plan developed. This plan will be developed by a qualified reading teacher through collaboration with guardians. This plan will include a student-specific goal, a progress monitoring plan, and an action plan. This plan may include research-based interventions for the student in addition to their daily grade-level instruction.
- Students who, by the end of their third grade year, do not complete their personal learning plan and are performing below the 25th percentile, are recommended for a summer intervention program and also will be provided a continuing intervention plan for their 4th grade school year.
Note: In the assessment process, it may be determined through reassessment or alternatively-approved assessments that the original screener was not accurate for the student.
In Grades 5K-3, BDUSD uses the following reading assessments:
Reading Readiness Screener
- The screener will be provided by the State of Wisconsin through the Department of Public Instruction. Once this is selected, we will describe this screener and other assessments used.
Diagnostic Assessments
- Once the state’s reading screener is selected, we will report and describe the diagnostics BDUSD will use.
Interventions: Research-based support provided to students in need of additional support.
BDUSD maintains a menu of interventions used in our response to intervention (RTI) process. This academic intervention menu includes interventions used to support students with personal reading plans. Note that interventions used for students with personal reading plans will be noted with an * in the first column.
Each intervention is progress monitored using an appropriate monitoring tool form Aimsweb+ unless otherwise noted. This assessment is administered weekly in order to track progress. In addition, many interventions have additional assessments or monitoring tools that are a part of the intervention system to support tracking progress.
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