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Lodi School staff outline literacy, classroom expectations and staff-engagement plans as referrals fall
Summary
District teachers and staff presented literacy efforts (fluency, vocabulary, syntax), a classroom teaching matrix and staff-engagement activities; presenters said referrals fell from 335 to 209 this year after the matrix was rolled out.
Teachers and staff from the Lodi School District presented a package of literacy strategies, a new classroom teaching matrix and staff-engagement activities at a district meeting, and cited a drop in referrals this year from 335 to 209.
District presenters described classroom-level literacy work across grades — including timed oral-reading fluency practice for kindergarteners, explicitly teaching three to four high-value "tier 2" vocabulary words before reading, and sentence-structure activities to build syntactic awareness. "Fluency is the bridge connecting word recognition and comprehension," one presenter said, explaining grade-level timed targets and classroom routines meant to build automaticity and…
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