New Visions Literacy Partnership Week 1 Workplan

• Needs assessment: work with teachers to identify the needs of the target students (including examining students' IEPs, reading levels, reading strengths and weaknesses, academic backgrounds, and language backgrounds (ELLs)
• Getting to know the students (to establish rapport with the target students) through observation and working closely with them (at this point, you may do read- aloud or help teachers with learning activities)
• Write a journal reflection blog entry on week 1 field experience (Focus: how to use student needs assessment data to inform your intervention strategies). Use the two articles discussed in class for reference. Also, don’t forget about the ELA standards.
  To Meet Your Students Where They Are, First You Have to Find Them: Working With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse At-Risk Students by Ken Pransky &Francis Bailey http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rt/selections/abstracts/RT-56-4-Pransky.html
  Looking Inside Classrooms: Reflecting on the “How” as Well as the “What” in Effective Reading Instruction byBarbara M. Taylor, Debra S. Peterson, P. David Pearson, Michael C. Rodriguez http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rt/selections/abstracts/RT-56-3-Taylor.html
• Determine intervention strategies (We will work together on this one)