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Name: Paula Bloker
Email: blokerp@vail.k12.az.us
Goal Number: 2
Objective Number:
Organization: Vail Inclusive Preschool
Location: Vail, Arizona

Type: Staff Meeting
Name Meeting: Interventions Identified
Attendance: 16
Audience: Single School
Date: 11/24/08

Description:
After reviewing data from the test, Get It, Got It, Go, teachers decided that a focus area for intervention would be vocabulary. On the test it is called, picture naming. These focused interventions are provided on a daily basis and reflect best practices that support vocabulary development in all children.

Some of the vocabulary interventions include sorting into groups a variety of pictures by their function, talking about that function in detail and acting it out if appropriate, with props and gestures to support meaning.

Vocabulary words from story themes or ongoing classroom activities are the vocabulary concepts that are targeted for focus. Teachers use varied vocabulary and draw attention to targeted words with time to extend and deepen a topic over multiple turns and opportunities.

Teachers also make the parents aware of the vocabulary words and suggest strategies to families that are used in the classroom that support vocabulary development. Specific books are suggested that may also contain the selected vocabulary and concepts as possible books to be read at home.

The next testing cycle of, Get It, Got It , Go will be administered in December to all the 4 year old students. This data will be compared with the data that was collected in our first cycle of testing which was done at the start of the school year. Data will then determine our next targeted instruction.