2131.01 - READING INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS AND KINDERGARTEN ASSESSMENT

School District Of Westfield

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2131.01 - READING INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS AND KINDERGARTEN ASSESSMENT

The Board of Education shall approve a program of reading goals for students for grades kindergarten to 12.

To promote student's reading skills, requires the District Administrator to employ a certified reading specialist who will be responsible to develop and coordinate a comprehensive reading curriculum for students in grades kindergarten to 12. The District Administrator may fulfill this obligation by contracting with another District or with the Cooperative Educational Service Agency for the services of a certified reading specialist.

The goals shall be based on an assessment of existing reading needs of students. Subsequently the students shall be assessed based on the reading goals.

The Director of Instruction shall annually prepare a report evaluating the reading curriculum of the School District and forward the report to the District Administrator who shall present the report to the Board.

Assessments of Reading Readiness

An appropriate, valid, and reliable assessment of literacy fundamentals provided by the Department of Public Instruction, shall annually be used to assess each student enrolled in four (4) year old kindergarten for reading readiness. The District and the governing body of each charter school established under 118.40 (2r) Wis. Stats., shall annually assess each student enrolled in 4-year-old kindergarten to second grade in the school district or in the charter school, for reading readiness. The District shall use the evaluation instrument developed by the Department of Public Instruction.

The results of a student's assessment shall be reported to the student's parent or guardian.

A student whose assessment indicates that s/he is at risk of reading difficulty shall be provided with interventions or remedial reading services.

Interventions or remedial reading services shall be provided for a pupil in grades kindergarten to 4 if any of the following occurs:

A.	The student fails to meet the reading objectives specified in the reading curriculum plan maintained by the school board.

B.	The student fails to score above the state minimum performance standard on the reading test and:

	1.	A teacher in the School District and the student's parent or guardian agree the pupil's test performance accurately reflects the student's ability; or

	2.	A teacher in the School District determines, based on other objective evidence of the student's test performance accurately reflects the student's reading ability

	3.	The student's reading assessment under 118.016, Wis. Stats. indicates that the pupil is at risk of reading difficulty. If this subdivision applies, the interventions or services provided the pupil shall be scientifically based and shall address all areas in which the pupil is deficient in a manner consistent with the state standards in reading and language arts.

Wis. Stats. 115.77, 118.015, 118.016, 121.02 (1) (c)
118.015, Wis. Stats.

Revised 10/16/13
Revised 4/16/14