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Thank you for visiting Pocasset's Title 1 Reading website. I hope you find some useful information to help support your child's literacy skills at home. If you ever need specific information on what your child is currently learning and/or what you can be working on at home, please feel free to contact your child's classroom teacher or you can contact me using the form at the end of this page.
On this Home page you will find some general information about the Title 1 Program as well as some information about literacy assessments we use here at Pocasset. You can click on your child's grade level tab to find specific information and websites to help support your child's learning at home.
What is Title 1?
Title 1 is a program designed to provide reading support for the students who need it most. Students may receive small group instruction within their classroom or be pulled out to work in a smaller classroom setting. Students receive additional support between 3-5 times a week.
This year we will continue to have a daily reading intervention block in grades 1 through 4. This 30 minute block is used to work on focused skills and concepts in small groups. These groups are designed to be flexible and may change periodically throughout the year depending on the needs of the students. A student could work with any teacher at a grade level from either one of the classroom teachers at that particular grade level to the reading teacher to the special education teacher.
This year I have a reading assistant, Mrs. K, who is part of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). She will work 2 mornings a week reading one-on-one and/or in small groups with some of the students who receive Title 1 services.
Literacy Assessments
We use a variety of formal and informal assessments to determine your child's abilities in reading, comprehension, and phonics/spelling. We use DIBELS, running records, Project Read phonics assessments, and Words Their Way spelling inventories, along with classroom work to inform our teaching. All of these tools help your child's teacher(s) make decisions as to whether or not your child needs additional reading support.
We determine your child's reading level using running records. This requires your child to read a book on a specific level and then either tell about the book orally or in writing. Level A books are the easiest books to read and then they increase in difficulty. The grid below shows the reading level benchmarks for each grade at each term.
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
Kindergarten A B/C
Grade 1 D F H J
Grade 2 J K L M
Grade 3 M N O P
Grade 4 P Q R S
Upcoming Events
Parent-Teacher conferences will be held on Wednesday, February 15th from 5-8 and Thursday, February 16th from 3:30-5:30.
I hold school newspaper meetings every Friday during recess for any interested fourth grade students. The next edition of the paper is scheduled to go out in March.
On this Home page you will find some general information about the Title 1 Program as well as some information about literacy assessments we use here at Pocasset. You can click on your child's grade level tab to find specific information and websites to help support your child's learning at home.
What is Title 1?
Title 1 is a program designed to provide reading support for the students who need it most. Students may receive small group instruction within their classroom or be pulled out to work in a smaller classroom setting. Students receive additional support between 3-5 times a week.
This year we will continue to have a daily reading intervention block in grades 1 through 4. This 30 minute block is used to work on focused skills and concepts in small groups. These groups are designed to be flexible and may change periodically throughout the year depending on the needs of the students. A student could work with any teacher at a grade level from either one of the classroom teachers at that particular grade level to the reading teacher to the special education teacher.
This year I have a reading assistant, Mrs. K, who is part of the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP). She will work 2 mornings a week reading one-on-one and/or in small groups with some of the students who receive Title 1 services.
Literacy Assessments
We use a variety of formal and informal assessments to determine your child's abilities in reading, comprehension, and phonics/spelling. We use DIBELS, running records, Project Read phonics assessments, and Words Their Way spelling inventories, along with classroom work to inform our teaching. All of these tools help your child's teacher(s) make decisions as to whether or not your child needs additional reading support.
We determine your child's reading level using running records. This requires your child to read a book on a specific level and then either tell about the book orally or in writing. Level A books are the easiest books to read and then they increase in difficulty. The grid below shows the reading level benchmarks for each grade at each term.
Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
Kindergarten A B/C
Grade 1 D F H J
Grade 2 J K L M
Grade 3 M N O P
Grade 4 P Q R S
Upcoming Events
Parent-Teacher conferences will be held on Wednesday, February 15th from 5-8 and Thursday, February 16th from 3:30-5:30.
I hold school newspaper meetings every Friday during recess for any interested fourth grade students. The next edition of the paper is scheduled to go out in March.
