______ School Literacy Plan

Grades K-2
READ 680, Julie Steele
 What is the hardest
thing about
teaching reading?
Think-Pair-Share

https://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/the-english-language-makes-no-sense
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150605-your-language-is-sinful
Where We’re Headed Today…
What Are We
Doing?

Why are we How are we

doing it? going to do it?

Expectations and Timeline of

DIBELS Data PALS Data Support Implementation
 What is UFLI Foundations?
What are we ● Research based
Evidence based
doing? ●
● Foundational skills program
● Includes systematic and explicit
Implementation of UFLI phonics instruction
(University of Florida ● Follows a clear scope and
sequence
Literacy Institute)
Foundations Program
“UFLI Foundations strikes the perfect balance between structure
and responsiveness to students’ needs. The program features
ample opportunities for students to practice, along with built-in
gradual release. It provides teachers with detailed lesson plans,
a PowerPoint slide deck to accompany each lesson, and
downloadable materials for homework or center activities.”
-UFLI Foundations Website
 Why Do We Need a Foundational Skills Program?
Our data is reflecting a common trend of learning loss during the pandemic and a
strong need for high-quality instruction across our school to help students make up
for lost time!
● Simple View of Reading (Decoding x Linguistic Comprehension= Reading
Comprehension) means that students can never have reading comprehension
skills higher than their ability to decode!

● Proficiency in foundational skills can predict long-term reading achievement

and can support long-term reading success!
 Remember…
Ideal Multi-Tiered Support
System Model Assumes:

● 5% of Students in Tier 3
● 15% of Students in Tier 2
● 80% of Students in Tier 1

However, our assessments of

foundational skills leave us with
the opposite scenario…

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Dibels Kindergarten Data:
Letter Naming Fluency

Tier 1: 39%
Tier 2: 18%
Tier 3: 44%
Dibels First Grade Data:
Nonsense Word Fluency

Tier 1: 34%
Tier 2: 17%
Tier 3: 49%
Dibels Second Grade Data:
Oral Reading Fluency

Tier 1: 53%
Tier 2: 11%
Tier 3: 36%
PALS Kindergarten Data
~14% of
students
below
benchmark
PALS First Grade Data
~19% of
students
below
benchmark
PALS Second Grade Data
~37% of
students
below
benchmark
 Because of our large ratio of students scoring in the
intensive range on assessments of foundational skills, we
need a foundation skills program that:

Addresses all components of word level reading, including:

○ Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness to an Advanced Level (remember what
you’ve learned about orthographic mapping in LETRS! 😃)
○ Print Concepts
○ Explicit Phonics and Decoding Instruction
○ Blending
○ Word Chaining
○ Heart Word Instruction tied to Phonics
○ Guided Spelling
○ Connections in Decodable Text

And, UFLI provides all of this in a simple, affordable, easy-to-follow format!

 How are we Going to Implement it?
Expectations and Support
Expectations: Support:
● Teachers, instructional aids, and specialists
will implement 30 minute UFLI Foundational
Skills Lessons Daily
● All teachers, specialists, and support staff will
attend two days of UFLI training and
debriefing
● UFLI Lessons will be delivered to
differentiated groups based on targeted
strengths and areas of need
● Administrators will create school schedule to
include daily uninterrupted and protected
forty minute foundational skills blocks (to
include transition time)
● Reading specialists will lead UFLI training
during required professional learning days
during pre-service week in August
● Reading specialists will support teachers in
administering screeners at three points
during the year and then in analyzing that
data to form flexible groups; also, specialists,
ESL teachers, and SPED teachers will teach
UFLI lessons to students with IEPS, learning
English, and/or needing Tier 3 intervention
 How are we Going to Implement it?
Timeline for Implementation

Summer 2023 August- September 2023 On-Going, 2023-2024 January 2024 May 2024

Summer Back to School! Excellent Mid-Year School-Year

Learning! Teaching and Assessments! Wrap-up/Evaluation!
Collaboration! Administer end-of-year
Watch and reflect on
assessments
first UFLI Video (one
Beginning of year Teach daily UFLI Administer mid-year
hour- you will be paid
DIBELS and PALS lessons during 30 DIBELS and PALS Complete UFLI feedback
a stipend for this
Screeners: assess minute UFLI block screeners forms
work!)
and analyze data
Meet 2x/month as Reanalyze data and Analyze success of
Attend two-day program thus far and
Use data to form grade-level PLC adjust student groups
training during plan for needed
teams for support as needed
required PL days student groups adjustments
and training
Other Important We will use the LETRS Word
Inventory (from last year’s LETRS
Notes… training!) to analyze where to
begin instruction using UFLI
Scope and Sequence
 Other Important Notes…
Because our data shows deficits in foundational skills, this will be our focus
area; however, we must continue to supplement with our strong oral
language, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction during the remaining
time in our literacy block. We will not be making changes to this instruction at
this time.
 We are here for you! You are
amazing teachers, and we will
Other Important be here every step of the way.

Notes… Your LETRS training makes you

qualified and SO ready to
implement this instruction!
 Other Important Notes…
Remember who we’re doing this for….. Our wonderful students!
 ● Spend time looking through
UFLI manuals and lessons as a
Today’s Last team.

Fifteen Minutes ● Ask any questions you might

have!
 Questions?
Want to know more?
Stop by or email me anytime: steelej1@charlottesvilleschools.org
 References
UFLI foundations (n.d.). University of Florida Literacy Institute. https://ufli.education.ufl.edu/foundations/