September payday update
School Highlights

HERE’S A QUICK SUMMARY OF THE IMPACT OF DR. CUPP READERStm IN 17 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. COMPARE YOUR RESULTS TO SEE HOW YOU ARE DOING. CHARTS ON FOLLOWING PAGES GIVE MORE DETAIL (# OF STUDENTS IN EACH BOOK, AVERAGE BOOK, AVERAGE NUMBER OF SIGHT WORDS MASTERED, ETC.)

 

Of a total of 2558 students, the average Kindergarten student has learned 6 sight words and the average first grader has learned 85.  This first month, three schools are above average in both categories (103, 107 and 115).

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In Kindergarten, the average book level overall for September, 2003 was Book 1 (1.80) with the largest percentage of students overall (37%) working in that book – over 600 students out of 1636.  

 

These average students have mastered the letters /b/, /t/, /a/, /c/, /r/, /m/, /n/, and the rimes /at/ and /an/ plus four sight words. 

 

They have been able to read an actual story and have already begun to practice comprehension, self-correction, spelling, and fluency in the first month of kindergarten.

 

In Kindergarten, the top performing school (#103) spent 60 minutes in small group instruction daily using Dr. Cupp ReadersTM.
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There is a much greater range of student abilities in first grade than in kindergarten with students ranging from readiness level to Book 60.

In first grade, the average book overall for September was Book 23 (23.69) with the largest percentage of students overall (17%) working in books 31 & 32.   The average student has mastered all the consonant letters and sounds and has learned all the short vowels except /e/. 

 

The top performing school (working in Book 32 on average) also is the school with the largest percentage of students eligible for free and reduced lunch.  They have mastered all the consonant letters and sounds, and have learned all the short and long vowels.  They also have been introduced to a technique for switching long and short vowels to correctly decode words, addressing R-control vowels, closed syllables and open syllables and can read some three syllable words.  These skills will continue to be reinforced through book 43.

 

On average, first grade students had mastered 85 sight words.  Again the school with the greatest percentage of students eligible for free and reduced lunch knew the most sight words at 127.

    PAYDAY SUMMARY – SEPTEMBER, 2003 – Kindergarten                                             * Free & Reduced  = Free and Reduced Lunch

          Number of students in each book (R1-R7 represent readiness levels) sorted by % of Free & Reduced Lunch Students (Highest to lowest)


School
Code

%

Free &

Reduced*

    Average

  Level/Book

Per school

R1

R2

R3

R4

R5

R6

R7

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

Only 2 students over Book 23

 (See *s)

109

80

Book 1 (1.45)

 

 

42

 

 

 

 

34

18

21

 

5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

102

73

Book 1 (1.82)

 

 

 

 

 

 

4

21

9

11

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

110

66

Book2 (2.03)

9

9

 8

10

2

 

3

56

26

18

3

6

 

2

1

 

 

4

 

3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

116

63

Book 1 (1.52)

3

 

20

7

 

10

4

76

53

40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

104

58

Book 1 (1.07)

 

17

 

 

 

 

15

15

5

  7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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