Reading Sage: Reading Intervention: Reading Boot Camp

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Reading Intervention: Reading Boot Camp

Reading Intervention Overview

Reading Boot Camp is a free open-source reading Intervention program designed to turn around an entire school in just 20 days! Teaching every child in your school to read in twenty days is not only radical but saves thousands in program cost. Turning the reading establishment on its head and saving a lost generation is a radical idea. Spending education budgets on great literature for students, instead of reading software, basal readers, reading intervention programs, and teacher in-service training is a radical idea. Insuring that all students have a real future is just a pipe dream if we stay on this path of chasing reading rainbows. Teaching ten years in high-poverty schools, with over 85% of the students at risk, has taught me we have lost our way and the establishment is broken. We buy into every program that comes down the pike promising success, yet here we are failing our most needy students. Putting great literature, poetry, and books in children’s hands is the foundation of Reading Boot Camp, not predigested workbooks, endless teacher-made photo copies, and needless busy work. Reading Boot Camp is back to basics with a sledge hammer to the outsider. Students find it rewarding and fantastic!

Reading Boot Camp Purpose
urposes 1) Launch students into the rigorous and intensive
reading and writing program that is taught throughout the year:
2) Accelerate the closure of the academic achievement
gap in lowest quartile students; and 3) Teach the students
school etiquette, classroom manners, discipline, responsibility
and a foundation in classic children’s literature...

Reading Boot Camp is a sure fire way to rev-up reading in your classroom. RBC has no magical remedy, just uses consistent teaching practices, significant time on task~reading with student accountability, coupled with high interest reading, student motivation and effort. Students who participated in Reading Boot Camp the summer of 2011 at Wilson K-8 and then for three weeks as the 2011 school year began, enjoyed the routines of daily singing to music with lyrics, poetry readings, word work drills, reading fluency drills, student choice in reading, academic word games, and motivational brain breaks which translated to student success. Does Reading Boot Camp work, YES! Students grow in their reading ability, are motivated to read, recite, and sing to lyrics, while reading which equals a high level of student engagement and more time on task reading!”

Cindy Senn, Wilson k-8 Reading Specialist/Teacher

TEACHING STUDENTS TO NEVER GIVE UP!

Students make explosive reading growth!

Reading Boot Camp Results 2011-2012 school year!
This year’s 4^th grade class started with 31 students, 95% qualifying for free and reduced lunch, 12 ELL/ESL students, one (NES) Non English Speakers, and 5 students on IEPs or 504s. 7 of the 31 students are reading at a proficient level according to the NWEA MAP tests. The class reading mean is 191.76(2^nd grade reading level)
Reading Boot Camp Results:
Seven new students are now reading at grade level after 20 days! 90% of
Students made one year growth in reading based on NWEA Map results. The class mean before Reading Boot Camp was 191.76 RIT post RBC was 200.19, 20 days! The expected summer growth according to NWEA MAP norms is 1.8 and the actual class growth was 8.48. (Students in our district do not make summer expected growth gains.
End of Year Results: The end of the year MEAN 208.1! 2012

Reading Boot Camp Results 2010
37% started the year reading at grade level now
74% are reading at grade level in 25 days!
Reading Boot Camp Results 9/2009

Jumping 40 percentile
points in Reading in 20 Days!

27% on Day ONE, 73% on Day Twenty!

Reading Program Effectiveness: 20 Days!
Eight new students are now reading at grade level after 29 days! 85% of
students made more that one year growth in reading. The mean for students
not participating in Reading Boot Camp is 194.3 RIT for 4th grade, students
participating in Reading Boot Camp the mean is 205.4.

Four schools and many more classrooms are participating in RBC this year!

Four classrooms are participating at our school and all show statistically
significant gains in reading fluency and comprehension! 8/2010

Meeting the new Common Core Standards!

The Reason Reading Boot Camp Is Successful!

1. Language and reading is a function of auditory learning, students learn 6 times faster when listening, reading orally, and speaking. Language and vocabulary are mastered with repetition and modeling. When a reading teacher relies too heavily on silent reading and silent writing activities, the speed of auditory learning is lost. By finding creative and effective ways to provide more listening, oral reading, and speaking activities during Reading Boot Camp, you can give all learners in your reading class an accelerated chance to develop their literacy skills. During Reading Boot Camp the students are ether reading text or listening to text being modeled the entire day. The repetition of seeing, hearing, and speaking daily builds pathways exponentially the further you get into the program the greater the automaticity. By day twenty, the brain pathways are automatic, automaticity has been achieved, the 2350 most used words are ready to use.

2. Reading Boot Camp is just that, camp, with camp counselors (teacher) providing highly focused fast, rigorous, challenging, fun listening, reading, and speaking activities all day long.

3. Students as teachers, using cooperative partners for 90% of the activities builds accountability for the teams, partners, and personal learning. Students are trained to work as teachers with the ability to run all Reading Boot Camp activities with little assistance from the teacher. Students know all expected learning outcomes and work to meet individual goals and team goals. Students as teachers multiplies the effectiveness of on task behavior and helps student monitor individual progress and partners progress (Force Multiplier).

4. The 2350 most used English words including the Dolch sight words are modeled, read, written, or spoken 30-60 times per day during Reading Boot Camp. Students are also exposed to 10,000-20,000 new vocabulary words during the reading of a vast collection of literature that includes poems, plays, fairy tales, parables, fables, short stories and chapter books. Students build auditory English language skills with, idioms, cognates, definitions, and important examples of key phrases used in English.

Explicitly teaching academic vocabulary is part of my daily reading and writing instructions, and this has placed my Title I student at the top of the state in testing the last five years! I like to set trends not follow them!

The 20 Day Intervention Is Fast, Rigorous, Enriching, and Fun.

Reading Boot Camp Quick Look

RBC Learning Goals for Fluency, Reading Comprehension and Academic Vocabulary Knowledge!

20 full days are need to meet all literacy goals!

Phase One: Phonics, Phonemic Awareness and Fluency

Grade Level Fluency Goals

1st Grade 80 Words Correct Per Minute

2nd 140, 3rd 160, 4th 180, 5th 195, 6th 205, 7th 210, 8th 215 wcpm

Phase Two: Reading Vocabulary and Academic Vocabulary

Students Will!

In 1^st grade Review, Preview, and Learn 400 words!

Learn All Academic Words for Grade!