Welcome!
I am a Title I Reading Specialist at North Rowan Elementary where I work with students to accelerate their learning in the area of reading.
TITLE I INFORMATION
- Children's Progress Academic Assessment Winter Assessments have been completed for students in grades K-3. Look for the results to be sent home with your child.
- The 2011-12 Title I School Plan is available for review in the Office.
- The 2011 -12 NRE Student/Parent/Teacher/Adminstrator Agreement will be sent home the week of September 11th, please look for this important paper and review it with your child. After you sign it, return it to your child's teacher.
SRA at NRE
SRA offers two research-based programs which we are using at North Rowan Elementary. The Reading Mastery/Direct Instruction program focuses on students in grades K-2 and the Corrective Reading program focuses on students in grades 3-5. Both programs focus on phonemic awareness, phonics/word analysis, fluency, and comprehension. The programs provide students, teachers, and administrators with all the critical components of a research-based approach to closing the achievement gap for struggling readers through targeted small-group instruction that allows the students to progress through the lessons as they master the skills while accelerating the at and above grade level students. We are excited about starting these programs.
Below is the mnemonic we use for UNRAAVEL and what each letter means. The top one is for reading comprehension, and the bottom one is for math problem solving. Under each mnemonic, there are songs to remember the steps. Thanks to Larry Bell for creating these wonderful strategies!
Reading UNRAAVEL
U - underline the title
N - Now, predict the passage
R - Run through and number the paragraphs
A - Are you reading the questions?
A - Are the important words circled? (in the questions)
V- Venture through the passage (read it marking the important words)
E - Eliminate wrong answers (only in mulitple choice)
L - Let the questions be answered (answer each question and put the paragraph number where the answer was
found)
UNRAAVEL SONG
(to the tune of the Brady Bunch)
Draw a line, under the title
Take your best guess what it's all about
Put a number next to each paragraph
To help you find the answer
Take some time, and read the questions
Circle all, the very important words
Write down what each word means
And now its time to read
(Chorus)
UNRAAVEL -ing
UNRAAVEL - ing
This how we UNRAAVEL the EOG!
Cross out all the wrong answers
Pick the best of all that remain
Paragraph numbers will prove you know the answers
Now double check your work
Chorus
MATH UNRAAVEL
U - Underline the question
N - Now predict what you think you need to do to solve the problem
R - Read the word problem
A - Are the important words circled? (especially clue words)
A - Apply the step(s) you chose to solve the problem
V- Verify your answer (is it reasonable; does it make sense)
E - Eliminate wrong answers
L - Let the answer stay or rework the problem
√√ Double check your work!
