MPESD 3 to 3 Initiative
MPESD 3 to 3 Initiative
Our goal is by the end of third grade, all students will read at grade level. Resources will align with an "all in" approach to addressing early literacy. Students who enter the fourth grade at or above level are best prepared for future success. All students reading competently by fourth grade will change the trajectory of many students.
Early Literacy
MPESD will address Early Literacy by addressing these 4 areas:
Key Strategies
Instructional Practices
Professional Learning
Early Identification Tools
Key Strategies
- Intentional teacher, principal, and district-level focus
- Reading instruction includes implementing phonics instruction using the Fundations and Benchmark Advance/Adelante to create a comprehensive, structured literacy program for students in grades TK-2.
- Administer a Kinder universal screening, K-2 Benchmark digital Oral Reading Records (dORR). iReady Diagnostic Reading Assessment K-8, to determine student strengths and areas for instructional growth and tiers of intervention.
- Implement adopted California standards-aligned reading instructional materials.
- Monitor, calibrate, and analyze the progress of students through district wide principal meetings, guided classroom observations, and i-Ready Diagnostic Reading Assessment data conversations with facilitators.
- Provide comprehensive and dynamic professional learning opportunities for all educators.
Intentional teacher, principal, and district-level focus
Reading instruction includes implementing phonics instruction using the Fundations and Benchmark Advance/Adelante to create a comprehensive, structured literacy program for students in grades TK-2.
Administer a Kinder universal screening, K-2 Benchmark digital Oral Reading Records (dORR). iReady Diagnostic Reading Assessment K-8, to determine student strengths and areas for instructional growth and tiers of intervention.
Implement adopted California standards-aligned reading instructional materials.
Monitor, calibrate, and analyze the progress of students through district wide principal meetings, guided classroom observations, and i-Ready Diagnostic Reading Assessment data conversations with facilitators.
Provide comprehensive and dynamic professional learning opportunities for all educators.
Instructional Practices
Focus on Instruction- Acceleration ![]()
MTSS (Multi-Tiered Systems of Support)
MTSS is an instructional framework that includes universal screening of all students
multiple tiers of instruction and support services, and an integrated data collection
and assessment system to inform decisions at each tier of instruction. The framework
can be used for literacy, math, or positive behavior supports.
Robust Tier 1 Reading Program for all students (Teachers plan, design, deliver, and assess student learning).
- Use board adopted core curriculum for K-2 English Language Arts, Benchmark Advance.
- Provide Supplemental Phonics Program
- All K-2 Teachers trained in how to deliver excellent phonics instruction in K-2 Classrooms
- Use technology educational apps such as Learning A-Z to offer online reading books and assessments anywhere
- Use iReady Personalized Instruction for reading and math (30-49 minutes per subject per week)
- General education teachers differentiate and scaffold instruction to accommodate students with a range of literacy skills and need for guided practice.
- Address State Standards
- Small group instruction or one to one instruction in class
- Differentiated Instruction-provides multiple pathways for teaching and learning
- Formative and Summative Assessments
- Professional Learning in Universal Design for Learning, Crew, Daily 5, Avid, Phonics, ELA
Use board adopted core curriculum for K-2 English Language Arts, Benchmark Advance.
Provide Supplemental Phonics Program
All K-2 Teachers trained in how to deliver excellent phonics instruction in K-2 Classrooms
Use technology educational apps such as Learning A-Z to offer online reading books and assessments anywhere
Use iReady Personalized Instruction for reading and math (30-49 minutes per subject per week)
General education teachers differentiate and scaffold instruction to accommodate students with a range of literacy skills and need for guided practice.
Address State Standards
Small group instruction or one to one instruction in class
Differentiated Instruction-provides multiple pathways for teaching and learning
Formative and Summative Assessments
Professional Learning in Universal Design for Learning, Crew, Daily 5, Avid, Phonics, ELA
Early Identification Tools
Educational Services partners with Health Services to provide a vision and hearing screening for students to identify any vision or hearing challenges that may impede reading development.
- Vision Screener
- Grades TK, K, 2, 5, 8
- Hearing Screner
- Grades K, 2, 5, 8 and all SpEd students
- Speech