(1) Coolidge Elementary School aims to improve students' ability to find supporting evidence in texts so that 85% of K-5 students achieve grade-level benchmarks in reading. (2) The school will focus on higher-level comprehension, using evidence from texts to support answers. (3) Initiatives include book rooms, buddy reading, home reading logs, birthday books from the PTO, and reading incentive programs.

1. Coolidge Elementary

2. School Improvement Plan
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2010-2011
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3. their ability to find supporting
evidence in text so that 85% of all
K-5 students will achieve grade
level proficiency on the Fountas
and Pinnell Benchmark
Assessment by May of 2013.

4. Finding
evidence in
text

5. Sample Passage
It was time to head home from school. Lee could
not find his hat. He had seen Jim near the hats
and coats earlier. “You took my hat,” Lee said.
Jim said he did not, but he would be happy to help
Lee look for it.
Why does Lee think that Jim took his hat?

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8. Higher level:
Using evidence
from
text

9. Book Room

10. Volunteers listen to readers.
Parents read to students.
Parents read to students.
Parents read to students.

11. Buddy Reading

12. home
reading
with parents
with parents
with parents
with parents
with parents

13. At home reading logs

15. Birthday
Books
provided by Coolidge
PTO
PTO
PTO

16. Reading Incentive
Programs

17. Technology:
websites

18. *Gr 4 YPP cluster # C10, C11, C19, C20
*Gr 5 YPP cluster # C10, C12, C15, C16

19. Bubble Gum
Facts
Five Facts
per
week
for each grade
Using writing in math

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Color coded by grade level

23. Lots of math facts!

24. Emphasis on interpretation of graphs

25. Practicing Facts

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Kids learn at different
rates,

27. and in different ways.

28. Technology:
Using iPads to
practice facts
Using iPads to
practice facts

29. Strategies to learn facts

30. Staff collaboration to select facts and to
monitor student progress

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33. Math practice in the
computer lab

35. Family Math Night

37. Math is fun!

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Maddie

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Jacob

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Selia and Caiden

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A parent speaks . . .

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We’re making a difference!

45. Le Ann Metzger, Principal