Our students will learn key academic skills - like reading, writing and math - to encompass the knowledge and processes associated with intellectual development. As learners and meaning-makers, students take subject-specific concepts and content and transform them into a new understanding.
Goals
- Improve student success in literacy.
- Improve student success in numeracy.
Literacy: To increase student success in literacy and support their literacy growth, we are committed to implementing effective teaching strategies that foster strong, fluent reading skills. Achieving reading fluency and comprehension by the end of Grade 3 is both a District-wide priority and a key goal at Máthxwi Elementary. While the data highlights the dedication and hard work of our staff and students, it also underscores the continued need to focus on literacy achievement for all learners.
Some Activities to Support Literacy Include:
- Sound Wall, Phonics Assessments
- Decodable books/Chapter Books) Word ladders
- Strong Nations Guided Reading leveled books.
- LSS literacy resources (with CR4LL funds)
- Primary classes use UFLI along with Heggerty.
- Intermediate classes use Morpheme Magic, Reading Power – Adrienne Gear & explicit lessons on comprehension skills.
- Daily 5 / Café instruction
- Literacy centres
- Words their Way and Writing Power
- Piloting ACT for Divisions 1,2, & 3
- Indigenous literacy program (during class and after school)
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Summative assessment:
- Classroom-based assessments
- PM Benchmark Assessments (November, March, June). No testing above level 30.
- District Gr. 3 Write (Spring)
- Provincial Gr. 4 FSA
- BC performance standards for writing
Formative assessment:
- Kindergarten/Grade 1 Acadience Literacy Assessment
- Core phonics screeners
- PM Benchmark Assessments (All Gr. 1 –5 students, below level 30)
- ACT Reading Comprehension Assessment (Gr. 4 – 5)
- Acadience Screener
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Numeracy: To support their numeracy growth, we are committed to implementing effective teaching strategies that foster strong, fluent numeracy skills.
Some Activities to Support Numeracy Include:
- manipulatives and number lines to address gaps in skills and multiplication charts.
- Real-world math activities (e.g., counting money, telling time) are adapted to build confidence and relevance.
- SNAP – Intermediate classes are using SNAP to assess student growth.
- Power of Ten
- Tara West Math Centers
- Math Place
- Mathematics Tasks for the Thinking Classroom K-5
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Data:
- Classroom assessment data (e.g., number sense assessments, problem-solving tasks) showing improved number sense.
- Student engagement levels during hands-on math activities.
- Teacher observations of student understanding of mathematical concepts.
- FSA Numeracy data (Gr. 4)
- SNAP assessment for Grade 4 & 5
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