Welcome to Title I

Parent Orientation Meeting

What is Title I?

• Title 1 provides supplemental federal funding for low achieving children, especially in high-poverty schools.

• Title 1 is a program which provides extra academic support and learning opportunities for children farthest from meeting challenging state standards.

How Does the Money Get to My School District?

• The money travels from the US Government to your school district then to your school building.

• Census data is used to determine the amount of Title 1 money your district receives.

How Does a School Become a Title 1 School?• The number of students that

get free and/or reduced lunch is used to determine the district-wide poverty and school poverty.

• Title 1 can serve schools at or above the district-wide poverty average.

Will My Child Receive Title 1 Services?

Services are given to studentswho are in need of academichelp, according to the statestandards and the collection ofthe school's data. This is NOTbased on the poverty of thestudent's family.

How Does Title 1 Help Schools?

Title 1 helps your school by SUPPLEMENTINGand improving the regular education programsoffered at your school to help students meetthe State standards.

• Small Group in Class Assistance• Supplemental Education Services• Title I Tutoring• Parent Involvement

What Types of Services are Offered?

It is up to the individual schools to design a programto help students improve academic achievement tomeet the challenging State standards, meet the needsof students, and provide professional developmentfor teachers and parents.

• Small Group in Class Assistance• Supplemental Education Services• Title I Tutoring• Parent Involvement

Title I Services Henry P. Fieler

Elementary School

Student Selection Process

• Gr. K: IRDA assessment, Pre-Kids Readiness Test, Peabody Vocabulary Test

• Gr. 1: IRDA assessment, DIBELS Nonsense Word Fluency Check

• Gr. 2-4: IRDA assessment, Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) Lexile, DIBELS Fluency Check

• Gr. 3-4: Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) Lexile, MacMillan Reading Series Placement results, DIBELS Fluency Check

Students are selected for Title I servicesbased on data from three assessments:

Description & explanation of the curriculum to be used

• Phonemic awareness• Phonics• Fluency• Vocabulary• Comprehension.

Working in small groups, students use theMacmillan and Rigby Reading Series, alongwith supplemental materials, to review thefive areas of reading instruction. Thisincludes:

The goal of all instruction is to help studentsmaster the Indiana Academic Standards forReading & Language Arts.

Phonemic Awareness• Phonemic Awareness is the ability to

hear, identify and manipulate sounds in words.

• Phonemic Awareness is important because it is the basis of spelling, word reading, and comprehension.

• We work on Phonemic Awareness by making words with letter tiles and switching letters to make new words.

Phonics• Phonics helps children learn the

relationships between letters and sounds.

• Phonics is important because it enables children to decode words and helps them use predictable patterns in spelling.

• We work on Phonics by sounding out nonsense words to see if students can apply the rules we’ve taught.

Fluency• Fluency is the ability to read a text

accurately and quickly.• Fluency is important because it frees

students to understand what they read.• We work on Fluency by doing “Partner

Reading”. We take turns reading aloud to show how read smoothly and how to change your voice when reading sentences with question marks or exclamation marks.

Vocabulary

• Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively.

• Vocabulary Instruction is important because readers must know what most of the words mean before they can understand what they are reading.

• We introduce new words and make connections with words we already know. For example, we talk about antonyms and synonyms for words.

Comprehension

• Comprehension, or understanding what is read, is the reason for reading.

• Comprehension instruction is important because readers need to learn strategies to help them make sense of what is being read.

• We help students comprehend what they read by introducing strategies such as predicting before reading and summarizing after reading.

Forms of academic assessment used to measure student progress

• Fluency – DIBELS (words per minute) screenings.

• Comprehension - Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) 3 times a year.

• Treasures & Rigby Reading Series Weekly and Unit Tests (80% Mastery)

Proficiency levels that students are expected to meet

• End of Gr. 1: 40 words/minute• End of Gr. 2: 90 words/minute• End of Gr. 3: 110 words/minute• End of Gr. 4: 118 words/minute

DIBELS Fluency Screening (Words Per Minute)

Proficiency levels that students are expected to meet

• End of Gr. 1: Lexile 300• End of Gr. 2: Lexile 500• End of Gr. 3: Lexile 600• End of Gr. 4: Lexile 700

Scholastic Reading Inventory Lexile Scores

Proficiency levels that students are expected to meet

• Knowledge of Letters & Sounds• Recognition of Basic Sight Words• Ability to read 3-4 Letter words

and short sentences• Awareness of Vocabulary

Concepts

Kindergarten Reading Skills

Parent Involvement

Parents are an Important Part of Title 1!

• Schools offer a variety of workshops, to parents, about many topics on how to help their child.

• Parents are needed and encouraged to help plan/change Title 1 school's policy, participate in classroom visitations, attend informational meetings, attend Parent/Teacher conferences, and to help evaluate the overall program of the school.

• Title 1 helps parents understand the laws of education.

Fieler School Parent Involvement Policy

• A Parent Orientation Meeting • Winter Parent and Child Workshop • A Scheduled Parent Teacher Conference • A Spring Parent Input Meeting

This document informs you of your rights to be involvedin your child’s education. Parents of children enrolled inthe Title I Reading program shall be invited to participatein the following events:

Merrillville Community School Corporation Parent Involvement Policy This document informs you that the school district, MerrillvilleCommunity School Corporation, will provide assistance to eachschool as it prepares for the parent meetings.

The school district will also conduct, with the involvement ofparents, an annual evaluation of the content and theeffectiveness of the district parent involvement policy.

Parent Concern Procedures• A complaint may be submitted by any

individual or organization, and is defined as a written, signed allegation that a federal or state law, rule, or regulation has been violated by a Local Educational Agency (LEA) or the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE).

• A complaint may be filed by parents, teachers, administrators, or other concerned individuals or organizations.

• An examples of complaints might be failure to host an annual meeting or failure to allow parent input into the Title I program.

School Name:

Parent Name:

Student Name: Grade:

Date:

Address:

Phone #:

Email:

Description of complaint:

Person/Persons you have talked to prior to this formal complaint:

TO BE FILLED OUT BY PRINCIPAL/ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

What was resolved during this process:

Description of next step:

Signature of Parent Signature of Principal/Assistant Principal

Title 1 Parent Concern Form

Online ResourcesMerrillville Community School Corporation www.mvsc.k12.in.us

Merrillville Community School Corporation Student Informationwww.mvsc.k12.in.us/k12datamine/

Indiana Department of Education Title Iwww.doe.in.gov/TitleI/welcome.html

The Indiana Partnerships Center www.fscp.org/

ISTEP+ Student Reports & Parent Network Information www.InParentNetwork.com

Elementary WebsitesMacmillan Reading Seriestreasures.macmillanmh.com/indiana/students

Starfall learn-to-read website for Pre-K-2nd www.starfall.com/

Clifford, the Big Red Dog for K and 1st grade teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

Indiana Academic Standards K- 8 Activitieswww.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm

Website listing for each area of the curriculum www.buddyproject.org/jfy/kids/links/default.asp

Questions?

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