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Title I DirectorRoxanne DorrieTitle I Teachers/Reading SpecialistsPlains SchoolTaryn LarajaDee McWilliamsMosier SchoolBrook BeaulieuDanielle KotfilaJennifer WeeksThe Title I ProgramSouth Hadley Public SchoolsTitle I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, provides financial assistance to local educational agencies and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income households to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. Federal funds are currently allocated through four statutory formulas that are based primarily on census poverty estimates and the cost of education in each state.In South Hadley, Title I funding primarily supports the payment of partial salaries for reading teachers at the Plains and Mosier Elementary Schools. KindergartenLiteracy lessons at this level primarily focus on developing sound/letter knowledge, concepts of print and early reading strategies. Children read engaging, patterned books with pictures that match the text. Title I services in Kindergarten typically begin in the second half of the year so that students have an opportunity to demonstrate progress within the classroom setting before being identified for further support. Children are identified through assessments and teacher observations.Grade 1Supplemental reading lessons are provided to children in first grade who are identified as needing additional support. Children are identified through assessments and teacher observations. Two programs that are offered at this grade level are Reading Recovery? and Leveled Literacy Intervention? (LLI). Reading Recovery? is an intervention specifically for first graders who are identified as needing the most help. A specially trained Reading Recovery? teacher works one-on-one with students in reading and writing. The program is designed to be a short-term intervention and is designed to accelerate a first grader’s literacy progress in approximately twelve to twenty weeks. Once the series of lessons is complete, students will be monitored closely by the Reading Recovery teacher to ensure continued literacy progress. Leveled Literacy Intervention? is a powerful, short-term intervention for struggling readers. Teachers use it to provide intensive, small-group lessons that supplement classroom literacy instruction. In their LLI lessons, students receive extra support in reading, writing and phonics. Careful, ongoing assessment allows teachers to make decisions about who would benefit from these additional reading lessons in the classroom. Children who begin to develop into fluent readers rotate out of the group and new children rotate in, as other students show signs of needing some extra support. Grades 2-4The Title I program in Grades 2 through 4 provides both reading and language arts support, using Leveled Literacy Intervention?, to students who have been selected into the program based upon assessment performance and teacher observation. Using this data, reading specialists determine those children who would best benefit from additional, supplementary literacy instruction.Small group instruction may be provided in the classroom or in a setting outside the classroom. When students leave their classroom to attend Title I lessons, every effort is made to ensure that the children do not miss important activities in the classroom. Title I literacy instruction does not replace the student’s classroom reading and writing instruction, but rather, is in addition to it.The Title I reading teacher and classroom teacher closely communicate so that the supplemental lessons foster strategies that allow students to gain independence in the classroom. When a student demonstrates an ability to work independently on grade level material, the Title I teacher and classroom teacher reassesses the student and notifies the parent(s) if the student is ready to exit the Title I program. ................
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