Coming home soon for grades K-5 will be the beginning of year screener results for reading. An explanation of your child’s screener and their scores will be sent home with your child or shared at an upcoming conference.
Please note that this is only one assessment at one point in time and other data is always being collected. Reading skills are being observed daily by teachers. All students in grades K-5 receive small group instruction by their homeroom teacher.
Some students might work on phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, novels studies, research projects, and or advanced skills. When not in small groups students in grades K-3 practice with Amira and read out loud, receive interventions/support, and build comprehension skills. Their goal is to read 30 minutes each week on Amira.
In grades 4 and 5 students participate in independent reading and writing when not in small groups. If you receive a letter indicating that your child is “at risk” in reading, then your child will participate in an additional small group inside or outside the classroom with the classroom teacher or resource staff including the reading specialist and/or special educators.
As always continue to READ at HOME and chart it on your child’s reading log we will soon be rewarding those who have read 50 STEPS or 750 minutes of reading at home. Thank you for supporting your child as we create lifelong readers together.
As always, I am available at trhoten@bcps.org.
Tiffany Rhoten
Reading Specialist at Winand Elementary School
The Winand Way is to Read Every Day!
