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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Posted: Sep 12 2009 at 4:30pm |
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I’m working on another little project On average, most The test — called the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment for Literacy, known as the KRA-L — is given to every student in Last year, All scores are out of 29 points Miller Ridge……….……20.94 Creekview………….…….18.76 Central Academy…..…18.60 Wildwood…………………18.35 Highview…………………..18.00 Rosa Parks………………..16.48 Mayfield…………………..15.37 Amanda……………………..14.71 |
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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" What do you think we can do to improve these scores?"
Suggestions- At all elementary schools, designate two or three times a week, after school from 6PM to 8PM- gather some reading volunteers + voluntary reading staff, gather the parent(s), the students at the schools and conduct reading classes. Looks like, from the school data breakouts, that we have some of the poorer performances coming out of the lower income neighborhoods. OR At each elementary school, have the students remain after school for additional reading tutoring and make the school day an hour or two longer. Parents might object- after work, have them come to the classroom to help their child read and take them home after additional class. OR Have elementary schools compile an instructional DVD for the child to learn at home and keep the parents off the school's back for altering their schedule. Problem is, parent(s) might not make the child sit down and watch and practice with the video. No guarantee here. OR Have Saturday school reading options with the parent(s) bringing the child to their elementary school to participate and to monitor their child's reading skills. So as not to pay overtime to the teachers, have the instructors be qualified volunteers. Perhaps able seniors would participate. JMO |
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rngrmed
MUSA Citizen Joined: May 06 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 309 |
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Talawanda School District qualifies for Title 9 money which they have a teacher just to teach reading for children that have a need. Does Middletown do this?
Talawanda almost scored perfect on their state tests, so that isn't a reason why Middletown would not qualify.
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Vivian Moon
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What is the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy? (KRA-L) Test must be given before October 1
Children will sit and work with the teacher. The KRA-L is made up of activities that include: • Answering who, what, when, why and how questions; • Repeating sentences; • Identifying words that rhyme; • Giving a word that sounds the same as another word (rhyming production); • Identifying letters; and • Listening and identifying the beginning sounds of words. |
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smithde3
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As your principals have discussed with you, to increase the uniformity of our entire system, the grading scale that all teachers will be using this year is
90-100 A 80-89.49 B 70-79.49 C 60-69.49 D 0-59.49 F For those students whose IEP is written requiring a modified grading scale, there will be only one modified grading scale in use this year. The scale is as follows 81-100 A 72-80.49 B 63-71.49 C 56-62.49 D 0-55.49 F |
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Hermes
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: May 19 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1637 |
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Ok call me stupid,ignorant whatever, but I thought kindergarten was to prepare kids for the following regular school.
Why do they need to be rocket scientist before they ever get to the first grade ?
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No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !!
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Hermes
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I agree Vivian,I think learning starts at home and should continue. But it sounds like from the original posting that kids should know how to read before they get to pre-school. I'm all for teaching them young but how young is to young ? And isn't that what pre-school is for ? Teaching them and preparing them for whats to come ?
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No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !!
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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Vivian- sad thing is that these young mothers were brought up through this school system which didn't do them any favors by passing them through the system just to purge them and the parents of the young mothers did them no favors by failing to do their part about teaching them about life's expectations(life's skills) to succeed. The perpetual cycle continues when these youg mothers who weren't taught properly, pass this on to their kids .... and on and on it goes. Somehow, someway, society needs to break the cycle for the person to change by filling in the void that the parents and schools provided. Otherwise, ........
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Vivian Moon
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Many of these young ladies did not have a mother in their lives and therefore did not learn any life skills. We give them food stamps and assume that they know how to buy and cook a meal. It took me a year to teach them how to make their food stamps last the entire month. We assume they know how to do laundry and sew a button on a shirt. We assume they know how to solve simple health and social problems with their children.
They really don't know they should be reading a book a week to their children while they are young or teach their children to sit still and listen...and the list goes on and on...we just assume they know how to break the cycle that they are in. |
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Vivian Moon
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From Early Education at http://www.earlyeducation.org/
A federally supported universal preschool program would ensure that quality preschool education is available to every child in
Far too many American children enter school without the early learning necessary to succeed in school. Although public education has historically been viewed as an equalizing institution, educational inequality usually begins before children enter school. According to the Children’s Defense Fund, children from low-income households enter school with one-fourth of the vocabulary of middle-class students. By the time he or she enters first grade, a middle-class child has gained approximately a 20,000-word vocabulary; in contrast, a child from low-income household has gained only a 5,000-word vocabulary. |
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