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:
- February 11th: Our monthly coaches' webin 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!
- February 17th: In lieu of a Winter Leadership webinar, RCs will work with leaders in schools receiving RC support to review their school's winter data and assist leaders in identify targets and actions based on those data. In addition, the ORFC will summarize and send to schools project-level data that can be used to help school leaders examine their progress in relation to other schools in the project. Leaders in schools not receiving RC support are also expected to review their winter data and identify targets and actions based on those data. The ORFC will also be available to assist non-RC support school leaders with this process.
- February 26th: Our Brown Bag on vocabulary strategies with Cathy Collins Block is scheduled for Friday, February 26th from 12:00 - 1:00. Please visit the brown bag page for more information about this exciting session!
- Please see the attached calendar for additional information.
Recent Tools and Professional Development
- Reading Mastery II Rapid Reads Charts, intended to provide students with additional practice reading words that have been systematically taught in previous Reading Mastery lessons have been posted here on the Instruction/Program-Specific Enhancements page.
- Revised scoring and marking procedures for the Quick Checkouts (Houghton Mifflin & Scott Foresman) have just been posted! Please visit the In-Programs Assessment page to download these new scoring procedures before your next Quick Checkout administration.
2009-2010 Deliverables
- A list of all deliverables for the 2009-2010 school year is available here.
- Upcoming Deliverables Due Dates:
- 2/12/10: Instructional Focus Group Plans
- 2/12/10: Action Plan Updates + New Actions
- 2/26/10: Winter Principal's Data Based Leadership Plan
- 2/26/10: Winter District Data Based Leadership Plan
- Please be sure to include your school and/or district name on all deliverables.