Criteria+and+Evaluation

=//**Criteria and Evaluation**//=


 * === Criterion (with descriptors) ===

1. Adapted from "A Consumer's Guide to Evaluating a Core Reading Program"
Institute for the Development of Educational Achievement

2. National Council of the Teachers of English "Features of a Literacy Program: A Decision-making Matrix.
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Weighting ** ||  **

Reading Street ** ||  **

Story Town ** ||  • Student work demonstrates rigor and thoughtful interaction with the text.   •   <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The tasks and assessments facilitate the development of stude <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">nt synthesis- creating original thinking requiring the synthesis of multiple sources and/or own schema. • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The tasks provide authenticity and critical thinking in the creation of original product. Instruction is  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> The vocabulary used in materials and explicity taught is rigorous and robust. • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The program facilitates the development of readers capable of deep comprehension of text gradients equal to or surpassing SH end-of-year benchmarks. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> ||  ||   ||   || •<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The teaching points built into shared and guided groups are closely aligned to the District's Core Literacy Skills. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The teaching points built into shared and guided groups are closely aligned to the <span class="wiki_link_new">  District's Scope and Sequence. • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The program assessments provide formative and summative data closely aligned to the District's Core Literacy Skills and NYS assessments. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The program is highly congruent with research and best practice regarding reading outcomes, curriculum and instruction. ||  ||   ||   || • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Teaches advanced phonics skills (word- explicit in isolation then in words and connected text.   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">     <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Progresses systematically from simple word types to word families to complex, multisyllabic words. (Utilizes the developmental continuum from letter name to syllable juncture- <span style="color: rgb(118, 0, 255)">clarificaiton.) • Provides opportunities for guided practice in word lists and controlled contexts. • Explicit strategy instruction to read multisyllabic words using prefixes, suffixes and word parts. • Emphasis on reading more complex words(harder and bigger)- all more fluently. • Teaches word parts first then incorporates the words into sentences and connected text. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Explicitly incorporates spelling to teach/ reinforce word analysis. ||  ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • Explicit Vocabulary Instruction/ Utilizes five-step research based process for acquiring new vocabulary (Vocabulary's CODE) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> •    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Challenging/ Rigorous vocabulary- Conceptual Linked • Multiple and repeated exposure to new words • Explicit teaching of meaning of prefix, suffix, word roots. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Teaches high utility, irregular vocabulary words. ||  ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Contains passages with familiar words or those comprised of phonic elements and word types previously introduced. • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Builds towards challenging end-of-year WPM target. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Materials and instruction emphasize accuracy, expression and phrasing as well as rate. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • Provides materials and structures that introduce repeated readings after students read words accurately. • Includes appropriate, leveled materials that allow fluency practice for at-risk, grade level and advanced readers ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ===** Criterion One: Rigor and Student Work **===
 * ===** Criterion Two: Curriculum Alignment **===
 * ===** Criterion Three: Curriculum and Instruction: Phonics/ Word Study/ Spelling **===
 * === **Criterion Four: Curriculum and Instruction: Vocabulary Instruction/ Irregular Words** ===
 * === **Criterion Five: Curriculum and Instruction: Fluency Instruction** ===
 * === **Criterion Six: Curriculum and Instruction: Comprehension Instruction** ===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Provides selections balancing narrative and expository text. The amount of expository text increases with the grade levels. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • Teaches text structures for varied narrative and expository text types. • Explicit instruction to interpret/ comprehend non-text features (charts,graphs, and diagrams.) • Explicit strategy instruction: metacognition, connections, questioning, visualization, summarization, determine importance, inferring (varied forms) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Teaches strategy with the aid of carefully designed examples and practice. (Gradual release- think aloud, shared reading, guided reading, independent) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Strategy instruction spirals and builds across units and grade levels. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Development of schema by active connection of new information with current knowledge. ||  ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Produces rich student product reflective of the breadth of writing purposes: narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive, analytic/ responsive <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Provides instruction tightly aligned to the Six plus One Traits of Writing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Provides explicit, systemic grammar (usage, construction, punctuation) instruction. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Teaches and reinforces all stages of the writing process. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Offers exemplars and clear rubrics to help assess student writing and provide feedback.
 * === Criterion Seven: Curriculum and Instruction: Writing ===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">     <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">   ||   ||   ||   ||

• <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Assessments go beyond parallel tasks (NYS assessments) and provide for more real-life application. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> •   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Assessments target all components of reading. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">•    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Assessment tasks provide data that can be used to determine what kids individually and collectively need to learn. • Data is easily used to reliably identify students at risk of intervention. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Assessment tasks are balanced: they include some selected response and checks for understanding with data from constructed and extended responses. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Provides informative rubrics to help gauge performance and give meaningful feedback to students. ||  ||   ||   ||

Criterion Nine: Differentiation
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Makes suggestions to group and regroup students based on performance. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Content of readings and assignments is broad enough to tap into diverse learner interests. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">• Materials and instruction provide appropriate challenge for diverse student populations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Utilizes strategies to provide instruction in different modalities and styles. ||  ||   ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">At-risk students respond to the interventions as measured by program and district measures. • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Intervention program maximizes opportunities for acceleration both inside and outside the regular classroom. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Materials     <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> provide levels of service based on intensity of need. • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Intervention materials are closely aligned and scaffolded in content and teaching points to core program. ||
 * === **Criterion Ten: Intervention** ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> **Criterion Eleven: Teacher Materials and Support**  ===

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • The materials and support make the program easily implemented by the breadth of teachers. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">•    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">There are rich resources that are easily understood and used. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Resources are plentiful but not overly cumbersome. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Materials are easily utilized within a 90-120 minute instructional block. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">    <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Company support and training help clarify the proper use of materials. All materials are provided in a timely manner. Customer is support responsive. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> • <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Materials are developmentally appropriate and tap into natural student interests. ||