![]() ![]() When reading with your child, change it up to engage them: Ask comprehension questions like: “If the story continued, what do you think would happen next?” or “Is there anything in this story that reminds you of something?”.Read together or at the same time, so your child knows it’s a priority and love for learning in your household. Read every day for at least 20 minutes.Also, the M-STEP proficiency exam isn’t the sole measure districts can refer to their own assessments in demonstrating a student’s proficiency. However the law allows several “good cause” exemptions, including the opportunity for parents to excuse their child from retention if approved by the local superintendent. It may include a “Read at Home” plan to help support out-of-school reading, as well as the student’s strengths, areas of concern and a progress monitoring plan.Īccording to the law, by the 2019-20 school year all third-graders need to be within one year of grade level in reading or face retention. The IRIP is required by law to identify the reading intervention services a child will receive, and to help remedy any deficiencies identified in an assessment given at the start of the school year. “So the idea here is for us to leverage the librarians’ skills and services so families can come to the library and feel comfortable with needing and asking for help,” Nassar said. ![]() As the IRIPs were introduced for the first time this school year, all KDL and GRPL branches are ready to stimulate and reinforce reading skills, and encourage parents to bring in their struggling reader for supplemental support.Īs third-grade reading proficiency varies anywhere from 23 percent to 76 percent across the county, Nassar hopes families will visit their local library branch to engage with reading. In a partnership with Grand Rapids Public Library, Kent District Library and Grand Rapids Public Schools, Kent ISD early literacy coaches has trained about 100 GRPL and KDL librarians to be literacy cheerleaders. Partnering to train 100 librarians in the new third-grade reading law were, from left, Mike Nassar, Community Literacy Initiative director at the Literacy Center of West Michigan Lindsey Dorfman, director of branch services and operations at Kent District Library and Marla Ehlers, assistant library director at the Grand Rapids Public Library The trainings were coordinated by Mike Nassar, director of the Community Literacy Initiative at the Literacy Center of West Michigan, and conducted by early literacy coaches from Kent ISD. ![]() K-3 students needing extra help are given IRIPs to help them get there.Īlthough parents have been hesitant to let her read the document, McCoy was briefed on all things IRIP during a training on the new law. Librarians, like McCoy, are primed to help parents and their children improve the student’s reading, so the student is at grade level by the end of third grade, as required by the law. The reason? The child’s Individual Reading Improvement Plan (IRIP) from his or her school - a key component of the new state third-grade reading law. “We want to get the right book in a child’s hands at the right time,” said McCoy, a library assistant at the downtown Grand Rapids Public Library.īut while she delights in encouraging young readers, McCoy has lately become a sounding board for worried parents who have come to the library with their child. A librarian fills out a sample read-at-home-action-plan during the training She reaches for books as they answer, then lets them explore book jackets and flip through a few pages. McCoy asks a lot of questions: about the last book they read, their hobbies, what happened on their best day yet. It’s clear she wants to help them cultivate a love of reading. Chelsea McCoy dives headfirst into imagination: wildly, enthusiastically, getting right on the floor with youngsters. ![]()
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