Oregon Reading First Center
Welcome to the Oregon Reading First website.
Oregon Reading First is a state initiative funded by the Federal Government as part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Through this initiative, Oregon schools will receive support and professional development to help schools achieve the goals of all children being readers by the end of third grade.Through the use of scientifically-based reading research, we expect to meet the needs of each reader and to prevent children from reading difficulties. This website provides general information on our efforts as well as specific supports to schools participating in the project.Oregon Reading First Schools
Spotlight
National Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report - Critique in the Context of Oregon Reading First Summary Brief of Oregon Reading First Response For information regarding the impact of Oregon Reading First on English Learners, please see: For Oregon Reading First Impact Data, please see: For a link to the National Reading First Impact Study, please see: |
Humboldt Elementary School, in the Portland Public School District, has just completed its fourth year as a Reading First School. Learn about their success story in this eight and a half minute documentary, Hope for Humboldt, by Andrea Nowack and Amira Dughiri.
William Walker Elementary School, in the Beaverton School District, has just completed its fourth year as a Reading First school. Learn about how William Walker has been implementing the components of the Schoolwide Reading Model in this fifteen and a half minute documentary, K-3 Literacy in Oregon: The William Walker Story. Due to the large file size, you will be prompted to download the file to your computer. If no default application to open the .mp4 file is selected, select to open the file with QuickTime.
The Oregon Department of Education, along with the Oregon Reading First Center, are proud to announce the identification of three Beacon Schools in the state of Oregon: Humboldt Elementary in the Portland Public School District, Jefferson Elementary in the Medford School District, and Lincoln Street Elementary in the Hillsboro School District. For more information, please visit our Beacon Schools page.
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K-3 Literacy Statewide Outreach
- The purpose of K-3 Literacy Statewide Outreach is to support districts and schools in their implementation of the Oregon Literacy Framework. This framework is designed to provide teachers, administrators, parents, and other stakeholders with a blueprint of what districts and schools in Oregon can and must do to help students learn how to read and move toward reading to learn.
- The Oregon Reading First Center is currently working with the Oregon Department of Education to determine Outreach options for the 2009-2010 school year. As more information becomes available we will post it here, so please continue to check back for updates.
Oregon Reading First News
Oregon Reading First 2009-2010 Calendar
A draft of the 2009-2010 calendar is posted! Here are a few important reminders:
- March 19th: Our Brown Bag on Peer Assisted Learnin Strategies (PALS) with Devin Kearns from Vanderbilt University is scheduled for Friday, March 19th from 12:00 - 1:00. Please visit the brown bag page for more information about this session.
- April 1st: We will be hosting a one-hour webinar from 2:30-3:30 to introduce participants to the exciting new features and changes in the DIBELS Next materials that will be available for schools to use this fall. More information to follow!
- April 8th: Our monthly coaches' webinar is scheduled from 2:30 - 3:30. Participation is required for all coaches' in schools receiving RC support. Please remember to bring copies of your Kindergarten NWF sorting grid and one LPR report!
- April 23rd: Our Brown Bag on vocabulary consciousness and active engagement with Kevin Feldman is scheduled for Friday, April 23rd from 12:00 - 1:00. Please visit the brown bag page for more information about this exciting session.
- April 27th: The ORFC will be hosting a PALS workshop in the Portland area on April 27th in the Portland area. The morning session (8:30 - 11:30) will focus on Grade 1 PALS and the afternoon session (12:30 - 3:30) will focus on K-PALS. Registration for this event is required through the Miko Group. Please see the flier for more details.
- Please see the attached calendar for additional information.
Recent Tools and Professional Development
- To download a copy of the presentation that Devin Kearns will be referring to during our Brown Bag session Friday, March 19th, please click here or visit our Brown Bags page.
- Would you like to conduct a classroom observation focused solely on English learners? Please click here (or visit the Observations page) to download an observation form designed specifically for this purpose.
- Are you providing literacy instruction in both English and Spanish and assessing students using DIBELS and IDEL measures? If so, please click here to download DIBELS/IDEL interaction tables that can help you determine instructional priorities for small group instruction in both languages.
- The DIBELS Scoring Reference sheet created by the ORFC has been revised. Please click here to download the most recent version.
2009-2010 Deliverables
- A list of all deliverables for the 2009-2010 school year is available here.
- Please be sure to include your school and/or district name on all deliverables.