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-Michigan
-Kindergarten
-Middle/High Socioeconomic District
-22 students

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Carlsson-Paige, N., Bywater McLaughlin, G., and Wolfsheimer Almon, J. (2015). Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose. DEY Defending the Early Years.

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Are Kindergartener Really Ready to Read?

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Are Kindergartener Really Ready to Read?

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Little to Gain, Much to Lose?
According to the Alliance for Children studied the true effects on Kindergarten students reading too early. Their basis is the CCSS contradicts and creatives developmentally appropriate practices that will cause long term problems for students.  The Institute’s recent study,
given between 2008 and 2010 to about 1300 children
across the country, found almost identical results.12 The
Harvard Education Letter described the findings under the
heading: “Kids Haven’t Changed; Kindergarten Has" Carlsson-Paige, N., Bywater McLaughlin, G., and Wolfsheimer Almon, J. (2015).
https://deyproject.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/readinginkindergarten_online-1.pdf

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Mills, G. E. (2011). Action Research: A guide for the teacher researcher.

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3.Essential Documents for Districts to Follow

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3.Essential Documents for Districts to Follow

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MAISA and the Reading Network took a hard look at Michigan's reading scores and discovered our state was in an literacy emergency. We are 48th in literacy!!! The spent many hours of dedication and researched the 10 Essential Practices for K-5 grade teachers. This in NOT a curriculum, but a guide on what should be happening in "EVERY CLASSROOM, EVERY DAY, EVERY CHILD".

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1. Study Results on the Effectiveness of K-3 Literacy Coaching.

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1. Study Results on the Effectiveness of K-3 Literacy Coaching.

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Literacy Practices offers researched documents, FREE module training to earn SCECHS and a certificate.

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Home - Literacy Essentials Resource Center

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Michigan State University researchers are providing leadership in a new statewide effort to improve literacy.

Tanya Wright helped write the preschool and K-3 Literacy Essentials outlining evidence-based teaching practices that should happen for "every child, in every classroom, every day" to increase proficiency in reading and writing. She and fellow MSU College of Education scholar Laura Tortorelli are also assisting in the creation of free online training modules based on the essentials that will be available to all educators.

The first modules for the K-3 essentials are now available; the remaining modules are expected to be released on a rolling basis starting in early 2018. The collaborative project is led by the Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators, with multiple partners and funding from the Michigan Department of Education.

"It's a special time in our state," said Wright, associate professor of teacher education. "We have many organizations, districts and universities all working together on a common goal and agreeing on a common set of instructional practices we'd like to see in every classroom."

Examples include supporting literacy motivation, doing read-alouds, instructing students in small groups to address their learning needs and collaborating with families.

"These are things we know from research that all kids need. Sometimes, not all of the essentials are happening in classrooms. Sometimes, they are happening, but not in ways that are well-aligned with the research," Wright said.

Wright and Tortorelli, along with Nell K. Duke of University of Michigan, are featured in some of the training videos to explain research behind key practices. They also designed the content in the modules and worked with Michigan Virtual and teachers across the state to produce classroom videos for each literacy essential.

MSU Educational Administration faculty members Kristy Cooper Stein and Melissa Usiak are also contributing to the project. They helped draft the Literacy Essentials document focused on school-wide or organizational practices to foster literacy. Usiak and Cooper Stein shared the research with literacy coaches from across the state and have made presentations to Michigan school leaders as they prepare to support the necessary systemic changes.

Learn more at literacyessentials.org.

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MSU researchers help lead statewide literacy project

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Michigan State University researchers are providing leadership in a new statewide effort to improve literacy. Tanya Wright helped write the preschool and K-3 Literacy Essentials outlining evidence-based teaching practices that should happen for "every child, in every classroom, every day" to increase proficiency in reading and writing.

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*The Essentials are very new to the education world. Other states are taking notice to Michigan's research , work, and implementation to literacy coaching.
*My wonder is if I will be able to find any current data/student score results that prove the Essentials are impacting student learning?

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Research Question: What is the effect on K-3 Essentials Practices built within a Kindergarten Classroom Literacy Block?

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Research Question: What is the effect on K-3 Essentials Practices built within a Kindergarten Classroom Literacy Block?

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I have a passion for early literacy and I am very interested in researching the essential practices in a Kindergarten classroom and the effects they have on all students. During my coaching work we are taught this document is NOT a curriculum, but the guide help literacy instruction improve in the state of Michigan. We are the 48th state in reading, and county of Muskegon one of the lowest in the state. I want to know the effect of these practices in Kindergarten literacy block.

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MIASA has developed a user friendly

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Literacy Essential Modules - Early Literacy Professional Learning Grant - Early Literacy Task Force - General Education Leadership Network (GELN) - Organizations - MAISA

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We would like to offer special thanks to Dr. Nell Duke, University of Michigan; Dr. Tanya Wright, Michigan State University; Laura Tortorelli, Michigan State University; Michigan Virtual; Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators (MAISA); GELN (MAISA General Education Leadership Network); Michigan Department of Education; Message Makers; and the GELN Early Literacy Task Force for their work on these modules.

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2.Michigan "Maple Plan" to Improve Michigan's Literacy Performance

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2.Michigan "Maple Plan" to Improve Michigan's Literacy Performance

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Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators General Education Leadership Network Early Literacy
Task Force. (2016). Essential coaching practices for elementary literacy. Lansing, MI: Authors.

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8. Literacy Practices we NEED to abandon. 

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8. Literacy Practices we NEED to abandon. 

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https://www.edutopia.org/blog/literacy-practices-we-should-abandon-nell-k-duke

Duke, N. (2016) What Doesn’t Work: Literacy Practices We Should Abandon

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9.Should We Teach 100 Sight Words to Kindergartners?

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9.Should We Teach 100 Sight Words to Kindergartners?

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https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2014/10/09/should-we-be-teaching-100-sight-words-to-kindergartners-
INVERNIZZI, M. (Oct 09, 2014) Should We Teach 100 Sight Words to Kindergartners?. International Literacy Association.