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• Making Improvement to Reading and Vocabulary Scores On FSA Using Data
• Name:
• Date:
• Perceived Inadequacies
• Perceived inadequacies of the student that need increased focus are;
  • Low reading and writing scores on the FSA examinations for 6^th and 7^th grade middle school.
  • Extremely low vocabulary standards,
  • High ESOL population.

Data to support current state of the deficiency.

• Data to support was obtained from Florida department of education and shows less than 15% of students who took the 2018 FSAs achieved level 5.

• Current measures to remedy deficiencies

1. FSA Test scores and Benchmark Tests

• Essential for determining student’s level of achievement and performance at each grade.
• Such information is useful in helping administrators and class teachers to identify students who may need additional or substantial support in subsequent grades.

2. Progress matters testing every ten weeks

• Provides opportunities for educators to;
  • Efficiently administer student assessments,
  • monitor students’ comprehension, and
  • Monitor effectiveness of classroom instruction.
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses of students
• Current measures to remedy deficiencies Cont’d

1. RTI Intervention program.

• RTI program is designed to ensure timely identification of students with behavior and learning needs and subsequently implement measures to support them.

The program involves;

• Administration of high quality learning or instruction,
• Universal screening of learners in the classroom,
• Support and interventions to struggling learners at increasing intensity, and
• Regular monitoring to assess level of performance and learning rate.
• Current measures to remedy deficiencies Cont’d

2. Moby max reading results and activities

• Moby Max introduces learners to reading skills such as skimming and comprehensive reading to identify the main idea.

Thus, the program lets educators,

• Administer literature skills
• Monitor progress,
• Give feedback and report IEP goals, and
• Prepare short answer questions

• Efficiency of Prescribed Treatments

Interventions to address and remedy the identified deficiencies and learning needs include;

• RTI Intervention services with a biweekly extra RTI block
• Helping students own language through word study, and
• Enhancing Vocabulary and grammar instruction
• Efficiency of Prescribed Treatments

1. RTI Intervention services with a biweekly extra RTI block

                                                                        Table 1: Intervention Criterion.

• Efficiency of Prescribed Treatments cont’d

2. Improved Vocabulary and grammar instruction.

• Effective vocabulary and gramma instruction enables educators provide educators with opportunities to;
  • Say or speak target language,
  • Personalize and apply the target language,
  • Identify and understand grammar rules of the target language,.
  • Understand the difference between writing and speaking,
  • Develop meaningful communicative practice,
  • Establish relationship between grammar and vocabulary
  • Build on their errors to improve and produce stretched output.
• Ways to Store and Access information about the deficiency
• Information on the deficiencies’ interventions and their related implementation procedures and effectiveness can be documented and stored in the department of education’s database.
• The essence is to ensure easy access by administrators, educators and other concerned stakeholders.
• For instance, information on teaching grammar and vocabulary can be tabulated and documented as follows.
• Ways to Store and Access information about the deficiency Cont’d

Table 2: Different text-types require different approach to grammar and vocabulary.