Students in grades kindergarten through fourth grade are engaged in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and thinking critically about text through our daily Readers and Writers Workshop Blocks. Students also engage with the Big 5 from the National Reading Panel (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension) through a daily 30-minute Structured Literacy block that aligns with the Science of Reading. Student growth is measured through a variety of assessments including DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency, Kilpatrick PAST, Institute for Multi-sensory Education’s Orton-Gillingham weekly assessments, and Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System. In compliance with New Jersey Public Law 2013, c.210, all students are given a MAP Reading Fluency Dyslexia Screener to help identify students who possess indicators of dyslexia. Students also have access to Lexia Core 5 to help reinforce their daily literacy learning. Lexia Core 5 is recommended for nightly homework practice. This online learning platform reinforces skills such as decoding, encoding, fluency, phonological awareness, and morphology study. As a district, we encourage you to read nightly with your child to help foster a love of literature.
Language Arts/Literacy Vision Statement
The Robbinsville Public Schools Language Arts/Literacy Program will provide each student with the literacy skills necessary to become lifelong learners by strengthening and enhancing their knowledge which will enable them to read, write, speak, listen, and view critically and creatively. Our students come to school to learn to read, so they can read to learn.
In order to achieve the vision of creating lifelong literate learners the Robbinsville School District will:
- Utilize differentiated instruction practices to meet the needs of all learners.
- Incorporate small and large group instruction.
- Expose students to all genres.
- Integrate reading and writing in all content areas.
- Incorporate teacher read-aloud, shared reading, guided reading, and
- interactive reading into all grade levels.
- Incorporate the Science of Reading through Daily Structured Literacy practices
- Teach decoding and encoding strategies.
- Teach explicit phonological awareness to students in kindergarten through second grade
- Teach reading comprehension strategies.
- Assess students through rubrics, checklists, and diagnostic approaches.
- Develop word study lessons aligned with the Institute for Multi-sensory Reading Orton-Gillingham philosophy
- Provide opportunities for parent involvement.
- Provide teachers will professional development opportunities.
- Provide teachers with research articles.
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