Literacy Footprints in Early Kindergarten

 

Female infant school teacher working one on one with a young white schoolboy, sitting at a table in a classroom writing, looking at each other, close up. Stock Photo. Clipart.com School Edition, Vital Imagery Ltd., 01-04-2019, https://schools.clipart.com/download.php?iid=1595800&tl=photos. Accessed 29-09-2021.

I am going to be doing my ICDP on the topic of using the Literacy Footprints Kit to improve my guided reading instruction.  By using these kits consistently as they are intended to be used I believe our kids will show greater growth in the are of guided reading.  I believe this will be beneficial in helping to prepare them for kindergarten, which is my goal as an Early Kindergarten Teacher.  I will work to improve my note taking during guided reading time and I will work to get to groups consistently so they have plenty of opportunity for growth in the area of literacy.  We also have plans to implement some shared reading strategies that we learned this summer that will help support the work we are doing in our guided reading groups.

This school year the goals for EK have changed.  We have the expectation of getting our students to a level C by the end of the school year.  When looking at our data from the end of last year only 34% of our Early Kindergarten students were reading at a level C.  I want to use these kits to  accomplish this goal for more of our students.  Last year we only had the kids for part of the school year so I am looking forward to using the Literacy Footprint Kits all year.  

I plan to focus my research on the progress that can be made by consistently using the Literacy Footprints Kits to improve student achievement when it comes to literacy.  I will focus on strategies in Jan Richardson's book as well as the kits to improve my teaching.  I plan to use the resources that came with the kit, the resources I have received from Jennifer Burns on the topics of shared reading and guided reading, and Jan Richardson's books:  "The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading" and "The Next Step Forward in Word Study and Phonics".  

I will know that growth has been made in this area by using our EK leveling data from last year.  If we are successful in implementing the Literacy Footprints Kits for the school year then our leveling data will improve from last spring to this spring.