1. Evidence of Learning
Project

2. Purpose To identify causes and enlist strategies
to improve reading skills in struggling readers.
My school has been a Literacy Demonstration Site for several years with a strong ARI trained faculty. In the past, the majority of children who had come through our program came to the fourth grade with a love of literature. Because we have recently incorporated another school into our population and our transient population has been high, I have a new class this year that includes many children who are new to Central and seem new to the emphasis of reading across the curriculum.
This year, I have had a large percentage of struggling readers from which to choose to target for improvement. I chose “Bobby”.

3. Bobby did not want to read!

4. Bobby came to the fourth grade…
from another school system in Tuscaloosa
with a negative attitude and emotional outbursts
with immediate evidence of behavior problems
(but with a well adjusted twin sister in another class)
evidence of writing difficulty
weak academic skills
low test scores (SAT – 2-3 Stanines)
unaccustomed to making reading choices
unwilling to participate in class work
with a fixation on drawing Dragon Ball Z pictures

5. Pre ~ Data
In my class…
Instead of a BELL curve
I had a WELL Curve

6. Bobby needed… Immersion in Reading Activity Motivation
Instruction
Bobby needed…
Immersion in Reading Activity Motivation
Samples of Success
Volumes of reading
Comprehension Strategies

7. There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

8. Using Bobby’s Talents to illustrate Social Studies Text

9. Guided Reading
This form is adaptable to flexible grouping and flexible lessons. All areas need not be covered in every lesson.

10. Technology Motivates

11. The Best Thing In The World
Once upon a time, there were four brothers who lived in a far away land. Their father was an old king. One day he said, “I will not live long now. Today you must start out into the world. In a year, bring back the best thing you have found. The one who can pick the best thing shall be the new king.”
The Dolch Story

12. Small group lessons during Drama Periods

13. Post ~ Data

14. ConcLusion

15. December 13, 2002
AT THE BEGINNING OF THEYEAR I WAS GETING THE WRONG BOOKS
WHEN THE TEACHER TOLD ME TO GET BOOKS ON MY
LEVEL BUT I DIDN’T LISTEN SO I GOT BOOKS THAT WHER NOT ON
MY LEVEL AND I MAD ZEROS ON THE TEST AND I KEP DOING IT
UNTIL I GOT THE BOOKS ON MY LEVEL AND A CUPEL OF NOTS HOME
AND MY MOM HAD COMFINSIS WITH THE TEACHER NOW I MACK
HUNDREDS AND NINDIS YESTER DAY I MADAHUNDRED ON MY TEST
TODAY I MAD A SEVENDY ON MANIAC MAGE I MAD MY LEVELALMOST
FOR THE 9 WEEKS AND THAT IS MY READING STORY

16. …and the boy read happily ever after.