Literacy

Literacy

Adolescent Reading Project using Phonics Blitz

Since 2003, the HPREC Reading Project has been providing regional educators with skills, knowledge, and support to ensure literacy success for all students. Participating school districts include:

Clayton Public Schools
Mosquero Municipal Schools
Raton Public Schools
Roy Municipal Schools
Springer Municipal Schools

These participating schools received intensive professional development and coaching on the 5 Big Ideas, the 3-tier model, assessment, progress monitoring, and curriculum and Instruction. In addition, teachers received intensive training and support using Lindamood-Bell™ Learning Processes, as well as Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS).

HPREC Adolescent Literacy Project
In collaboration with participating districts and The Really Great Reading Company, HPREC is coordinating and strategically implementing the HPREC Adolescent Literacy Project with the follow schools/districts:

Cimarron Elementary and Middle School
Cimarron High School
Clayton Junior High
Eagle Nest Elementary and Middle School (Cimarron)
Garfield Elementary (Hatch)
Kearny Elementary School (Raton)
Maxwell Municipal Schools
Raton High School
Raton Middle School
Rio Grande Elementary (Hatch)
Roy Municipal Schools
Springer High School

Fifty-five teachers from these schools have received intensive training and support on implementing Phonics Suite™ lessons with fidelity. Phonics Suite™ is comprised of three effective, engaging programs: Phonics Blitz™, Phonics Boost™, and Targeted Reading Lessons™.

Phonics Blitz is 40 lessons that teach phonics concepts in a fast-paced, multi-sensory, systematic, and explicit manner. The lessons improve reading skills of students in grades 4 to 12.

Phonics Blitz helps students who exhibit one or more of the following weaknesses:

misread unfamiliar words and words that look alike
struggle with reading multi-syllable words
skip or add words
read more slowly than grade level expectations
have poor spelling.

Each Phonics Blitz lesson lasts approximately one hour. Lesson times vary based on the time it takes students to master the concepts taught and the size of the group. Completing all 40 lessons usually takes 8 to 10 weeks. The recommended group size is 8 to 12 students, depending on the level of the students’ decoding deficits. Lessons can be broken up for classes shorter than one hour, but it will take longer than 8 to 10 weeks to complete all 40 Lessons.

For information on official Phonics Blitz professional development, contact Dana Stoltz Gray at 575.445.7090.

Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS™)
HPREC provides engaging and high quality professional development using the dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills at the regional, state, and national level. These trainings include topics such as:

Administration, scoring, and interpretation of DIBELS
DIBELS Training of Trainers
What Do I Do With My DIBELS Data? - Using DIBELS to Guide Intervention
National DIBELS Summit

For more information on DIBELS professional development offer by HPREC, contact us at 575.445.7090.

For more information DIBELS, visit: http://dibels.uoregon.edu/.