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Section 31a & Section 35j

Section 31a

Section 31a is a state funded program created to help students who for a variety of reasons find one or more of the core subjects challenging. It is designed to help students make gains on grade level assessments. 
 
At the beginning of every school year, students are assessed in reading and math. These assessments determine who is entitled to the extra support provided by the Section 31a program. Throughout the year continued assessments will be done to monitor every student’s progress. Our goal is to ensure every child receives the foundation they need to achieve success at school.
 
The Section 31a Program provides children extra instructional time one-on-one, in small groups, or online. During this time, the NPS staff will work on lessons created to address children's specific needs. 
 
For more information, please contact the Office of Instruction at (248) 344-3520 or visit your school website for building-level information.

Northville Public Schools Literacy Plan 35j

All students will demonstrate growth in literacy skills.

  1. All kindergarten through eighth grade students will demonstrate growth in
    literacy/proficiency in reading as measured by NWEA (target=at least 60%
    achieving NWEA projected growth) and proficiency on state and local
    assessments.
  2. 100% of third grade students will demonstrate proficiency (pass rate), consistent
    with the provisions of MCL 380.1280f (third grade reading law), by 6/30/2024 as
    measured by the state assessment, local assessments and/or portfolio.
  3. At least 90% of students in grades eight through eleven will demonstrate growth
    in literacy as measured by college and career readiness benchmarks in Evidence
    Based Reading and Writing in English Language Arts on PSAT 8/9, PSAT 10 and
    SAT, and local assessments.

Strategic Use of 35J Funding Plan:

The 35J grant will be used to build upon our current literacy practices. Based on the Essentials and ELA Common Core State Standards, Fountas and Pinnell Classroom elements are the core of our ELA instruction. UFLI, LETRS, decodables, Science of Reading professional development, and building our classroom libraries will allow all staff to bolster our K-5 practices. These practices will be supported with job-embedded professional development from our two ELA coaches.

Focus Areas to Address Gaps in Literacy:

Northville Schools uses targeted data from NWEA, Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System, AIMS Web, and other literacy assessments to identify gaps. These gaps are then approached through our Multi-Tiered Systems of Support process (MTSS).

35J Proposed Purchases:

  • K-2 teachers will attend UFLI training and materials

  • K-2 UFLI Sub costs

  • The Reading Strategies Book 2.0

  • Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring Science of Reading to the Upper Elementary Classroom grades 3-5

  • K-2: A Teacher’s Guide to Vocabulary Development Across the Day Professional Book

  • K-5 Wayne RESA training Talking Science Through Texts. Texts will be added to K-5 classroom library collections.

  • Decodable text classroom sets with characters from diverse backgrounds

  • Science of Reading for the Elementary Principal @ RESA

  • Science of Reading for Elective Teachers @ RESA per teacher

  • What Does the Science of Reading Say About School Libraries PD @ RESA

 

Additional PD opportunities K-5:

Funds will be used to provide a stipend in the targeted amount of $1000 for each K-5 employee that completes LETRS.

Abundant Reading Materials:

Northville Public Schools is the recipient of funding, allowing for an allocation to update and purchase new reading materials for all Northville Schools’ Media Centers including Cooke School. This allocation will provide high interest reading materials for all students grades K-26. A committee, to be composed of parents, students, educators, and specifically staff from our media center team, will use data to comprise a book list representative of the many cultures represented at Northville Public Schools. The following list of languages are spoken by more than twenty students according to our MiSTAR Data System: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu.
 
The proposed book list will focus on, but not be limited to, non-fiction books including biographies which are written by authors and about individuals representing various cultures. The student composition of Northville Schools will be an impactful data set reviewed by this committee.


Comprehensive Literacy System

  • Tier 1

    • Instruction: Core reading instruction aligned with the standards, explicitly taught every day, Fountas & Pinnell Classroom

      • Mini Lessons

      • Interactive Read Aloud

      • Word Study

      • Guided Reading

      • Shared Reading K-3

      • Book Clubs 3-5

      • UFLI

  • Tier 2

    • Instruction - Targeted supplemental interventions and support

    • IMSE / Orton Gillingham Approach

    • Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

    • Heggerty

    • UFLI

  • Tier 3

    • Instruction - Targeted interventions which can be small group or individual

    • IMSE / Orton Gillingham Approach

    • Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI)

    • Heggerty

Using Scarborough’s Reading Rope to guide our literacy system, Fountas and Pinnell will be used for language comprehension, and UFLI will be used to address word recognition. Northville uses Fountas and Pinnell and UFLI in tier one to address the essential literacy practices.