Hello...
All of you wonderful experts out there have given me some great advice in the past
and I know you will be able to help me with my latest problem....
I have recently moved to a school that is virtually last in state test scores from
a school that was almost always at the top. So, my lesson plans have to change and
my curriculum also must change. Here's my problem: This school does not have a
recognized library media curriculum. Plus, they have been without an LMS for 6
years. In that time, student scores have rapidly declined. I have third graders who
can't read on a kindergarten level (yet they are being advanced to 4th grade??? Go
figure!!). I need some advice from those who have been faced with this situation
before.
I would like to begin some reading assessment on these students to determine
reading skills, and then to begin teaching them. I think I need to put library
skills on hold for a couple of months and address this need first. These kids can't
understand the books they are checking out, so telling them how to find a book on
the shelf and how to research isn't helping when they can't understand the words on
the page.
Where do I begin? I feel really helpless at the moment. Do I start with the
teachers? Do I propose reading conferences? Are there programs I can use that cost
little or no money to assess reading (BTW, we do have AR, but from what I've heard
it's collecting dust since the kids don't understand how to take tests)?
We are a Title 1 school, but with a regular budget that has been "frozen" for three
years. Therefore I cannot spend a great deal of money.
I would love to have advice from other LMS' who've have had to teach reading skills
and hear how they've done it.
Thank you SO much!
Valerie :)
Valerie Bassett
media specialist
Ridgeland Elementary School
P.O. Box 850
Ridgeland, SC 29936
vbassett@yahoo.com
843-717-1350
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