Open Court

Reading ©

Evaluation
Hunter Dansby
North Carolina
Leadership Academy
Why It Matters

4x ...and in
poverty 13x
2016 - 2017 Percentage of Students Proficient on Reading EOG

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade

24 35 24

6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade

36 34 22
Logic Model
Where should 1st
Graders Be?
 What should 1st
Graders be able to do?
Beginning Of Year
TRC Levels
Assessed September 2017

BOY MOY EOY

Median Level: C

Mean Level: B-C

Success
Stories
Strategies
1. Daily verbal practice
of letter sounds and
blends.

2. Daily spelling practice

3. Writing for
comprehension 3x per
week
Implementation
1. Every day

2. 8:00 - 8:45 am

3.All five 1st

grade
classrooms

4. 70 first graders
 Middle Of Year
TRC Levels
Assessed February 2018

Median Level: E
Mean Level: D - E
*Median Growth from BOY to MOY: 2 levels
*Mean Growth from BOY to MOY: 1.67 levels
 Strategies

LNF - Letter Name Fluency

NWF - Nonsense Word Fluency

WWR - Whole Word Recognition

DORF - Dibels Oral Reading Fluency

Beginning of Year

+ = 63.5%

+ = 36.5%
Middle of Year

+ = 51.2%

+ = 48.8%
 Teacher Talk
“SOUNDS and
SPELLING.” “SOUNDING OUT
WORDS and
READING SPEED.”

“CONFIDENCE in
TEACHING my students “Teaching SPECIAL
HOW TO READ.” SOUNDS for the
more complicated
words.”
REFLECTION
What’s the big impact?
“Open Court helped me with my
spelling. I have gotten a lot better
at saying words faster because of
the fun activities we do in the
morning during Open Court.”