LOGIC OF ENGLISH

Logic  of English Fundamentals (K-2) & Essentials (3 & 4) have been designed to introduce students to the linguistic structure of English.  The heart of this curriculum lies in teaching the phonograms, The most foundational element of our written language.  We will teach all the sounds of the 75 basic phonograms used in spelling of 98% of English words.  The English language consists of 45 sounds, 74 phonograms, and 30 spelling rules.  By using a multi-modality way of teaching, the students will learn faster and deeper. 

DIBELS 8

DIBELS are measures that help teachers and schools determine how students are performing on important reading skills. DIBELS stands for Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills. These measures are designed for students in grades K-6. 

The critical skills necessary for successful beginning reading include: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The DIBELS measures assess students on four of these five critical skills, which are often referred to as the “Big Ideas” of reading. 

Each of the DIBELS tests only takes about one minute to complete. DIBELS tests are “indicators” of the student’s overall reading status, and are not intended to be in-depth or comprehensive measures of reading. Just like using a thermometer to take your child’s temperature, which provides a quick indicator of your child’s general health, these quick DIBELS tests provide teachers with information about your child’s reading health and how well he or she is progressing on a particular early reading skill. Benchmark assessments generally take 2 to 6 minutes to give, depending on the grade of the student and time of year. Teachers only need about 1 to 2 minutes to progress monitor students at each testing time. DIBELS measures allow teachers to get valuable information about students’ reading skills without using large amounts of instructional time. 

A student’s scores on the DIBELS measures give the school information about whether or not a student is on track for grade-level reading success. A school can quickly identify students who do not meet the goals on each DIBELS measure and provide extra help. For example, if your child is reading words accurately, but slowly, the teacher can provide extra practice re-reading stories and passages to improve his or her reading rate or fluency 

Dibels Maze

Maze is a measure that assesses reading fluency and reading comprehension. Maze is a reading fluency task in which Students are asked to read a passage silently. In the passage, every seventh word (approximately) is blank, with a maze of options (i.e., three possible word choices for the blank). One of the words in the box is always correct, and the other two are incorrect. Maze requires students to choose the correct word as they read the passage. Students are given three minutes to work on this task. The stronger a reader the student is, the more maze items they will encounter in that three minute timing. Maze is also an indicator of reading comprehension, as completing the task requires students to understand what they are reading.    Maze is administered in 2nd Grade through 4th Grade. 

heggerty Phonemic Awareness

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Phonemic awareness is the ability to understand that spoken words are made up of individual sounds called phonemes, and it’s one of the best early predictors for reading success.

Each level of the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum provides 35 weeks of daily lessons, focusing on eight phonemic awareness skills, along with two additional activities to develop letter and sound recognition, and language awareness. Lessons are designed for a classroom setting, and only take 10-12 minutes. 

In a Phonemic Awareness Lesson…

• Main focus is on the phonemes (sounds)

• Deals with spoken language

• Activities are auditory

• Students work with manipulating sounds & sounds in words