SMART+goals

SMART Goal: Increase sight word vocabulary by two words a week using the Dolch sight word list for reading fluency. Students will know 100 sight words by the end of the school year.

Strategies and Action Steps: · Display words on word wall. · Sight word work stations · Flashcards · Small Group Instruction for differentiation · Individual Sight Word list · Computer program- Fry Sight Word activity computer games.

Responsibility: Teacher, Volunteers, Title I, Classroom Aides, and Classroom Assistants.

Timeline: Assessments administered every two weeks for the school year.

Evidence of Effectiveness: · Compilation of results from assessments. · Graph/Chart progress of sight words correctly identified.

Results of Action Research: In the past two weeks, 89% of our students were able to gain at least two words a week from the Dolch Sight Word List. For those students who were unable to gain those two words a week, additional interventions were provided to help them reach the goal for the following two week period.

SMART Goal: Increase oral reading fluency by two words per week.

Strategies and Action Step: · Repeated reading · Readers Theater · Small group instruction · Phonics/whole language · Poetry

Responsibility: Teachers, Title I, Classroom Aides, and Classroom Assistants

Timeline: Assessments administered every two weeks (progress monitor-CBM)

Evidence of Effectiveness: · Compilation of results from assessments. · Graph/Chart progress of sight words correctly identified.