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South Lake High School

October 25, 2011

Together we will Connect, Inspire and Achieve

Reading is critical!!
All students will need to read to be successful
We must help the students that need the most support first with the most intensity
Students will receive reading assistance in every class focusing on two strategies each quarter

Building a Community of Learners

Issue 2

Have you checked out your student’s textbooks lately? Have they? Encourage them to use sticky notes or paper bookmarks for each page. Using sticky notes will help them to talk to the text and help to build their comprehension. One of the strategies we have been practicing is talking to the text or T4. Ask them for some tips on how to make it effective! Try to have the students answer their own questions about the book.

Beginning the week of October 24th, Students in the school will be tested that tested below the grade level Lexile Cut-Score will receive additional individual reading testing. Students with the greatest, most immediate need will then be selected to enter a reading support class based specifically on student need!

~ You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them~ Ray Bradbury

The Detroit Red Wings and the Michigan Education Association (MEA) are teaming up to support Michigan Reads, a program that encourages reading with special promotions at Michigan sporting events. Here’s how it works: Parents and educators can register their children or students by clicking the button at right. Read five books and have your parent or guardian document your accomplishments.
That’s it! Once a student is registered and reads five books, the Red Wings will send an email to confirm your 2-for-1 ticket order. You’ll receive a FREE student ticket (a $15 value on weeknights, $20 on weekends) with accompanying purchase of a regular price adult ticket ($30 on weeknights, $40 on weekends.)
All Michigan K-12 students are eligible to participate in Michigan Reads. Register now, read five books… and catch the action at the Joe!

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Reading Program Assessment Overview

SCHOLASTIC READING INVENTORY™ (SRI)
is a research-based, computer-adaptive reading assessment program for students in Grades K–12 that measures reading comprehension on the Lexile Framework® for Reading. The most powerful feature of the SRI is its ability to administer fast and reliable low-stakes assessment to inform instruction and make accurate placement recommendations. Aligned to state tests, SRI helps educators forecast student achievement to those important goals.

Lexile Reading Levels

The SRI test provides us with quickly accessible information that we can use to help determine the students that are most at need for intense reading instruction. After all students completed the SRI, they were given a lexile score and the students with the most need will be reading well-below grade level.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. --Barack Obama

Book Recommendation

"[The Hunger Games] is a violent, jarring, speed-rap of a novel that generates nearly constant suspense... I couldn't stop reading." — Stephen King, Entertainment Tonight
Product Description
n the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

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