Learning Objectives

Overall Objective:  

• Deepen understanding of the three types of Personalized Practice ALL students need, including: 

  • Grade-level practice - which is time for more at bats on “you do” component of Tier 1 grade level instruction; 

  • Adaptive online tool practice - which is time for students to master skills identified by the tool’s algorithm.

  • Listening/Reading bins - additional practice to build text fluency and language comprehension skills.

  • Gain exposure to the district’s vision and guidelines for how personalized practice to mastery will work across K-3 classrooms throughout the district. 

   TXRL Key Shifts & Strategies (KSS) Connection

KSS Shift #5: Provide ample time during the literacy block for students to practice skills to mastery based on student-specific skills data, and corresponding strategies below.

• Build 45+ minutes into the literacy block in addition to time required for the structured literacy curriculum, for students to practice student-specific reading skills not yet mastered.

• During instructional planning, use current mastery data (e.g., recent benchmark or progress monitoring skills data from a universal screener or current adaptive online tool report) for each reading skill to plan practice activities based on student-specific skills mastery.

•  When planning student text reading practice activities, pivot from leveled texts to decodable texts to help students successfully master newly acquired decoding patterns with accuracy and comprehension and offer independent reading time using complex grade level texts to students who are secure with basic decoding skills.

• Develop classroom procedures and tools which direct students to practice activities for specific skills they have yet to master rather than offer the same activities to all students.

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