Fast+Track+Phonics+Recommendations+November+8,+2007


 * __Program Data__**


 * Kindergarten** DIBELS: First Assessment Data

2007-08 **19%** **26%** **55%** 2006-07 **8%** **25%** **67%**
 * K- DIBELS || Intensive || Strategic || Initial ||


 * First Grade** DIBELS: First Assessment Data

2007-08 **2%** **11%** **87%** 2006-07 **6%** **10%** **84%**
 * First Grade || Intensive || Strategic || Initial ||


 * __Recommendations/Next Steps__** :

Congratulations to all of you for making leaps and bounds in progress between my first and second visits. Teachers have embraced Fast Track and are reaping the benefits of their efforts by seeing the progress their students are making.

Celebrations: 1. Teachers have become more comfortable with the routines and flow of the daily lessons. Most are keeping fidelity to the program by following the process step by step. 2. Teachers have embraced Alphie! They love him as much as the kids do. It’s wonderful to see him “come to life” in each classroom as he is able to be unique to each teacher and class. The students respond much more readily when Alphie comes out to play with them. 3. Teachers are more consistent in their delivery of the activities from room to room and most reported that they are able to complete the lessons within 30 minutes. 4. The enthusiasm for Fast Track is almost contagious! Teachers are enthusiastic because they see real, measurable progress with their students. It’s wonderful.

Next Steps: 1. Keep the flow of activities moving by requiring students to responds as a whole group rather than calling on them individually. This will enable all students to be engaged in the lessons and practicing together. 2. Continue to make the sounds as pure as possible without adding the schwa sound at the end. 3. Strive towards adding more structure to the partner practice activities which will help them flow more smoothly and keep the pace of the lessons on track. 4. Teachers are encouraged to begin teaching the Kinder Roots lessons as soon as they finish with Volume I of Fast Track. Our goal to complete Volume I and begin these Kinder Roots lessons no later than the end of January 2008. There are twenty, weekly, Shared Story Lessons so there needs to be adequate time (20 weeks) in order to complete them by the end of the school year.

> **__Measure:__**
 * __Goals For Kindergarten__**
 * By the second assessment 90% of students will meet the DIBELS benchmark goal for **ISF** of 25-35 words correct.
 * By the second assessment 90% of students will meet the DIBELS benchmark goal for **PSF** of 18 or more phonemes per minute and 35 by the third assessment.
 * By the second assessment 90% of students will meet the DIBELS benchmark goal for **NWF** of 13 or more correct letter sounds per minute and 25 or more by the third assessment.
 * Fast Track Phonics Assessment 1-3 to identify sounds in need of review.

> **__Measure:__**
 * __Goals For First Grade:__**
 * By the second assessment 90% of students will meet the DIBELS benchmark goal for **PSF** of 35 or more phonemes per minute.
 * By the second assessment 90% of students will meet the DIBELS benchmark goal for **NWF** of 50 or more correct letter sounds per minute.
 * By the second assessment 90% of students will meet the DIBELS benchmark goal for **ORF** of 20 words per minute and 40 words per minute by the third assessment.
 * Fast Track Phonics Assessment appropriate to the current lesson to track progress and plug the sound gaps.