Our Instructional Focus Statement
All Hillview students will show measurable growth in reading for meaning. We will measure growth through reading comprehension assessments, highest level of achievement tests and provincial achievement tests.
What good readers do when reading:
- Creates pictures in their heads about story
- Chunk text to make sense
- Make prediction about what is happening next
- Form questions about what they are reading
- Think about their own experience related to the story
- Ask if something makes sense
- Re-read to check for meaning
- Self check for meaning
- Use clues to figure out what the story is about
- Review what the reading is about
Staff will be involved in the following activities to assist students in improving their ability to read for meaning as well as the additional work on Assessment for Learning practices in 2009-2010.
- Professional development opportunities related to reading comprehension
- Identify 5 best-practices to use school wide to improve student achievement
- START daily reading time
- Our World in Words
- Balanced Literacy
- Graphic Organizers
- Poster Strategies
- Monitor students success three times during the year using an interim measure for reading comprehension
- Collect samples that demonstrates growth in reading for meaning for all students from Kindergarten to Grade Six
- Teachers meet regularly to collaborate and discuss strategies and student work
- Starting in 2009-10 we are part of a district reading recovery program desighned to assist struggling division one students improve thier reading competency.
