This will give you the most missed questions for 3-8 Reading TAKS scores in Region XIV!
It is the PowerPoint I presented at Road Show and at Data Days 2009.

Presentation for RTI workshop Nov.16, 2009. Presentation for GPC Manual meeting Nov. 10, 2009

Chart from the Director of Assessment Programs of the Florida Center for Reading Research concerning reading diagnostic assessments past 3rd grade.

Places to find RTI and Intervention Success Stories

This is the criteria used by Reading First schools.

Learn from Marian Miller of Trent! She taught her 8th graders to write their own TAKS prompts, focusing on Main Idea and Summary! This must be opened with Adobe Acrobat!

Summary:
readingquest.org/links.html

readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html

searchlight.utexas.org/

www.fcrr.org Click on Student Center Activities on the right sidebar.

Text Structure Ideas:
www.texasreading.org/utcrla/materials/middle_school_instruction.asp Click on the Appendix- You won’t regret it! (Handout Packet from 6-8 gtrades)

englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-Online/What-do-you-need-to-know-and-do/English-content-language-and-literature/Reading-and-writing/Language-features/Features-of-text-forms/Narrative (Look for other genres!)

readingquest.org/links.html

www.literacymatters.org/content/text/intro.htm#intro

www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/reading/questions.html

www.info.kochi-tech.ac.jp/lawrie/semanticmapindex.htm

knowledgeloom.org/external.jsp?url=http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/learntolearn/demands.html

Lesson Plans on Text Structure:

www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/compare_contrast.html

www.literacymatters.org/lessons/textstructure.htm

Lesson Plans-ELAR:
www.readwritethink.org/

Teaching Tip: Anchor Charts of the Features of Text Structure and Organizational Ideas.

www.jmeacham.com/centers/centers.anchorcharts.htm

www.cornerstoneliteracy.org/NEWSLETTER/volume_8_4/anchorcharts.html She uses ideas from the Daily Five

Dyslexia Conference
Dr. Reid Lyon came to our our Region Saturday, Sept. 12th.
Check out the presentations in case you missed it:
admin.esc14.net/webs/cfaehnle/reading_dyslexia_and_the_brain_conference.htm

Use this webquest to get ideas about literature circles.

This chart reflects academic or Tier II vocabulary that should be pretaught. I will update it when the new released tests come out this summer.