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River Ridge School District’s Early Literacy Remediation Plan
2024-2025 Implementation (Grades 5K-3)
Updated: November 2024
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District Mission Statement
The River Ridge School District will strive to provide a safe, challenging environment for each individual student by promoting excellent staff development, encouraging meaningful parent involvement , and earning strong community support through honesty, integrity and open communication.
Early Literacy Vision
Our vision is to cultivate a community of lifelong readers and confident learners by fostering a love for literacy from the earliest years. We strive to empower every elementary student with strong foundational reading, writing, and communication skills, ensuring they have the tools to explore, comprehend, and engage with the world around them.
Early Literacy Mission
Our mission is to provide a supportive, engaging, and literacy-rich environment where all elementary students develop essential reading and writing skills. Through evidence-based instruction, meaningful experiences, and a focus on phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, we aim to nurture curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking. We are committed to partnering with families, educators, and the community to create a strong foundation for academic success and lifelong learning.
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Universal Approach to High-Quality Instruction
Links to standards
Into Reading is a science-based early reading curriculum that utilizes evidence-based methods grounded in the "Science of Reading" to teach young children how to read. Into Reading utilizes a range of evidence-based instructional practices, including explicit phonics instruction, systematic vocabulary development, fluency practice, comprehension strategies, and differentiated instruction, all aimed at engaging students through relevant texts, interactive activities, and scaffolding to support diverse learning needs while building strong reading skills across various levels through a universal approach to literacy.
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Part I: Strategic Early Literacy Assessment System
Reading Readiness Screeners
Statewide 4K Fundamental Skills Screening Assessment
- Pearson aimswebPlus (phonemic awareness and letter-sound knowledge)
-Screening dates:
○ Fall - no more than 45 days into the school year.
○ Spring - on or before the 45th day prior to the last day of school
Parent/Caregiver Communication
- Guardians can expect to receive a letter that will be sent within 15 days of the scoring of the statewide early literacy screener.
- Reports will be sent twice per year in the fall and spring.
- Please notify the school of your preferred language and mode of communication.
Statewide 5k-3 Universal Screener
-Pearson aimswebPlus (phonemic awareness, letter-sound knowledge, alphabetic knowledge, decoding and oral vocabulary)
- Screening dates:
○ Fall - no more than 45 days into the school year.
○ Mid-Year - Middle of the school year
○ Spring - on or before the 45th day prior to the last day of school
Parent/Caregiver Communication
- Guardians can expect to receive a letter that will be sent within 15 days of the scoring of the statewide early literacy screener.
- Reports will be sent three times per year in the fall, winter and spring.
- Please notify the school of your preferred language and mode of communication.
Diagnostic Literacy Assessments
Diagnostic assessments will be administered to students who score below the 25th percentile on the universal screener or who are referred for additional testing by a teacher or parent/caregiver. Act 20 requires that a diagnostic assessment include all of the specific literacy subskills enumerated in Act 20 and meets the technical specifications in Act 20 (i.e., a sensitivity rate of 70%, a specificity rate of at least 80%, and includes a growth measure).
The following assessment may be used for the diagnostic assessments.
Assessment Name:
● aimswebPlus
● Cubed
● LETRS
Students will be assessed with the diagnostic within 10 days after the screener results are posted.
Guardians will receive notification within 15 days following the screener results.
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