YEAR 1

Title

Participants

Focus

Introduction to

Reading Rescue

Workshop

§          District office administrators,

§          school principals

§          assistant principals

§          resource teachers

§          Title 1 teachers

§          classroom teachers

§          Overview of Reading Rescue Program

§          Professional development

§          Contract obligations

§          Anticipated results

§          Research base

 

Level 1 Initial Training

Day 1

All who will tutor:

§          teachers

§          educational assistants

§          school principals

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          other staff members

§          What it takes to leave no child behind

§          Overview of Reading Rescue Program

§          Classwide Screening Assessments:

o         administration and scoring

o         identification of Rescue students

§          Individual Assessments of Emergent Literacy:

§          administration and scoring

§          Individual Assessment of Sight Words

Level 1 Initial Training

Day 2

All who will tutor:

§          teachers

§          educational assistants

§          school principals

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          other staff members

§          Individual Assessment of Oral Reading and Comprehension

§          Record Keeping

§          Easing In Activities

§          Assessment as the basis for instructional decision making

§          The Reading Rescue Lesson

Principal's And District Coordinator’s Level 1 Initial Training

§          School principals

§          District-level Coordinator(s) (if one is designated)

§          Review of contractual agreement

§          Principal's role in program success

§          Coordinator's role

§          Heading off potential problems

§          Assuring anticipated results

§          Celebrating tutors

§          Integrating Reading Rescue into the School Improvement Plan

Follow-up Training

Level 1.1

(Provided after tutors have tutored for 20 to 30 sessions)

All who will tutor:

§          teachers

§          educational assistants

§          school principals

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          other staff members

§          Examination of assessment data:

§          review of individual assessments

§          clarification of any confusions

§          Determination/exploration of skilled vs. unskilled tutoring during each lesson component

§          Analysis of Word Study

§          Critique of a videotaped Reading Rescue lesson

§          Graduation Criteria

§          Easing Out

Follow-up Training

Level 1.2

§          All who will tutor:

§          teachers

§          educational assistants

§          school principals,

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          other staff members

§          Milestones to literacy development

§          Timed readings

§          Analysis of tutoring log

§          Self-analysis of Sentence Writing

§          Analysis of Written Records

§          Critique of a videotaped Reading Rescue lesson

Initial

Summer Institute

§          Reading Rescue school coordinators

§          Other trained tutors

§          To prepare the Coordinator for his or her role as the leader of the Reading Rescue program

§          To equip the Coordinator to provide continuous staff-development in analysis of written record data as the basis for instructional decisions

 


 

YEAR 2

Title

Participants

Focus

 

 

Follow-up Training

Level 2.1

(Provided in the first part of the second year, after tutors have tutored two

children)

 

All who will tutor:

§          teachers

§          educational assistants

§          school principals

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          other staff members

§          Lesson changes across the phases

§          Analysis of New Book introduction

§          Patterns of text organization

§          Narrative Text

§          Phase IV of tutoring

§          Comprehension strategies for narrative text

§          Analysis of why Rescue instruction accelerates achievement

§          Classroom applications of Rescue strategies

§          Critique of a videotaped Reading Rescue lesson

§          The resistive student in Rescue lessons

Principal’s Support

§          school principals

§          Review of Year One results, goal setting for Year Two

§          Overcoming challenges encountered in Year Two of Rescue’s implementation

§          Research/Program updates

§          Review contractual agreement

 

 

 

 

Coordinators as Coaches (CAC)

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          Reading Rescue consultant provides on-the-job training for the school coordinator through joint observation of Rescue lessons. 

§          The Coordinator learns techniques for providing feedback to tutors by observing the Consultant's feedback to tutors.

§          The Coordinator and Consultant conference on the lessons they observed to achieve interrater reliability on the Rescue Lesson Observation Instrument

Level 2

Quality Assurance Visit (QAV)

(Provided for schools who have completed their first year-and-a-half of Reading Rescue implementation)

§          Rescue tutors

§          Reading Rescue school coordinators

§          school principal

§          Interviews with school principal, school coordinator, and tutors

§          Review of Classwide Assessments and selection of Rescue students

§          Observation of tutoring

§          Optional meeting with tutors

 

 

Follow-up Training

Level 2.2

(Provided in the last part of the second year)

All who will tutor:

§          teachers

§          educational assistants

§          school principals

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          other staff members

§          Patterns of text organization

§          Expository Text

§          Phase IV of tutoring

§          Comprehension strategies for expository texts

§          Comprehension strategies during oral and silent reading

§          Writing in response to text in Rescue lessons

§          Critique of a videotaped Reading Rescue lesson

Advanced

Summer Institute

§          Reading Rescue School Coordinators

§          Other trained Rescue tutors

§          Extension of the knowledge of the research base underlying instructional strategies used in the Rescue program

§          Preparation for responsibility of the in house continuing staff development for the Reading Rescue program

 


 

YEAR 3

Title

Participants

Focus

Follow-up Training

Level 3.1

(Provided in the first half of the third year)

All who will tutor:

§          teachers

§          educational assistants

§          school principals

§          Reading Rescue school coordinator

§          other staff members

§          Matching students to books for Rescue instruction

§          Systematic phonics instruction in Rescue lessons

§          Word study using word families

§          Prompting for independent word analysis across the phases

§          Children who don't accelerate quickly

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