What targeted actions are being taken?

What gap or problem does this action aim to address?  

Based on quantitative and qualitative data, how effectively has this action addressed the identified gap or problem?

How will we move forward accordingly? What are our next steps?

1. Staff will focus on integrating specific strategies to support comprehension and vocabulary building.  
2. Staff will use collaboration time to plan the implementation of teaching and learning strategies such as: morning message         (Kindergarten)

explode the sentence, and making connections in pre reading strategies

During a scan of our students’ literacy skills, we identified:

• Very few students reported reading at home for pleasure 
• Approximately 26% of students were emerging in their literacy skills (based on 2023 FSA data)
• 38.7% of students were Emerging or Developing in English Language Arts (based on the June 2024 Summative Learning Update)

 One of our Kindergarten teachers reported these observations after implementing a ”morning message” on a daily basis:

• Students began reading the message independently
• Students began “playing with the words”, and finding joy in creating sentences with their new vocabulary
• Students started looking for the new words that they learned in books, and then writing them in their journals

Our next steps for the 2025/26 year will be:

• Implement a school wide reading assessment to track our students’ progress over several years, and to identify areas to target during the school year
• Develop school wide initiatives to encourage and cultivate a love of reading for pleasure
• Continue to track “reading for pleasure” data through the Learning Survey
• Continue to track report card data in literacy from year to year