Student Performance Goal: All students will improve their reading comprehension in all curricular areas.
Support data (used to select the goal): ITED comprehension scores, Teacher Needs Assessment	Standardized Assessments: 8^th and 11^th Grade--ITED Reading Comprehension, 8^th grade--Gray Oral and Silent reading comprehension (GORT-4 and GSRT) Local Assessments: District Language Arts Assessments: 8^th Grade: 8.1.3, 8.1.5, 11^th Grade: 12.1.6, 12.2.4 Teacher checklist: 11^th Grade checklist completed by American History teacher (fall and spring) for each student, indicating the student's level of competency in reading and comprehending text				Supporting Research for Intervention Reading of nonfiction and fiction materials efficiently and with comprehension depends, in part, on the ability to anticipate and discern the structure of the text. These abilities must be systematically taught and students held accountable for their use in guided practice in all curricular areas.
Intervention #1: All 7^th-12^th grade students will improve text comprehension in all curricular areas
Activities to implement the Intervention		Person(s) Accountable	Timeline		Resources	Staff Development	Plan for Monitoring Implementation and Effectiveness
			Beginning	End-fully implemented
Students will apply knowledge of text structure in the reading of class materials by using a variety of concept organizers: *Teachers identify the text structures used in reading materials for courses *Teachers develop concept organizers to be used as comprehension aids for the teaching and learning of their specific course reading materials *Teachers teach students how to choose and use organizers for their specific course reading materials *Teachers hold students accountable for selecting concept organizers and the reading and comprehension of course materials		Classroom teachers	Fall, '02 Fall, '02 Fall, '02 Fall, '03	Spring, '03 Spring, '03 Spring,'04 Spring, '04	A variety of concept organizers for teachers to use as models Time given for content area teachers to work together to choose and design concept organizers for their courses	Inservice for all 7-12 grade teachers Followup inservice to answer questions and review	Teachers on a quarterly basis turn in a survey which indicates the degree to which they are implementing the activities and questions/requests for further inservice, practice, or work time