| Marilyn Payne-Reading Specialist for K-3 |
Landstown Elementary has two reading specialists who work with students to develop their reading and writing skills. Marilyn Payne assists students and teachers in kindergarden through third grade. Cathy Wright provides assistance to the fourth and fifth grades.
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The Language Arts Program at Landstown is designed to meet the reading and writing needs of all students. Using a "Balanced Literacy Approach", students learn decoding and comprehension skills through whole class, small group, and individualized methods of instruction. Writing for a variety of purposes is also stressed.
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The DRA level at which a student is reading helps to determine the difficulty of the books he can read.
The following is a general guide to the various DRA levels.
Levels A-2
-Text has repeated word and sentence patterns
-Usually only one line of text per page with large pictures
-Words are large and well spaced
Number of words in the texts range from 20-40
Levels 3-6
-Text has simple stories that contain repetitive words, phrases and sentences
-Pictures provide lots of support
-One to three lines of text for each picture
-Number of words in the texts range from 40-75
Levels 8-14
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Link to Selecting Books by DRA Levels |
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The Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA2) is a systematic program that allows the teacher to observe, record, and evaulate a student's reading ability. During this one-on-one evaluation, the child reads specially selected and leveled reading texts. This individualized assessment helps the teacher determine each student's reading level and identify what the student needs to learn next.
These assessments will be conducted in September and October.
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The Language Arts Assessment Tests are developed by the Virginia Beach Public Schools for second and higher grades. They are designed to measure each student's progress on grade level objectives throughout the year. The test items are constructed to reflect the format of the SOL and Stanford 10 tests. These selections are read independently and are untimed. The results are analyzed to plan whole class and small group instruction.
These tests are given in September, December, and March.
Link to Testing-Language Arts Assessment |
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Landstown Elementary School
Marilyn Payne
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