SCHOOLS SEEKING FUNDING; LANCASTER DISTRICT PLANS READING SKILLS PROGRAM.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer The Lancaster School District Lancaster School District may refer to:
The district is applying to the state Department of Education to obtain $164,502 in funds for instructors teaching kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through third grade, and $180,128 for those teaching grades four through eight. ``It will help develop programs and training for teachers to target kids falling behind in reading,'' district board President Greg Tepe said. ``It's critical for kids to not fall behind. If they do, they fall behind in the rest of their schooling. We need to reach kids at an early age and intervene to make sure they maintain their grade-level reading skills.'' The board will discuss the grant at its meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the district boardroom, 44711 Cedar cedar, common name for a number of trees, mostly coniferous evergreens. The true cedars belong to the small genus Cedrus of the family Pinaceae (pine family). Ave. District administrators are recommending the board approve participation in California's 1997-98 Reading Instruction Development programs, designed to provide training for teachers in phonemic awareness Phonemic Awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to distinguish phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. For example, a listener with phonemic awareness can break the word "Cat" into three separate phonemes: /k/, /a/, , phonics phonics Method of reading instruction that breaks language down into its simplest components. Children learn the sounds of individual letters first, then the sounds of letters in combination and in simple words. instruction, diagnosis of reading deficiencies, research on learning to read, structure of the English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. , improving comprehension and pupil-independent reading. A program description enclosed en·close also in·close tr.v. en·closed, en·clos·ing, en·clos·es 1. To surround on all sides; close in. 2. To fence in so as to prevent common use: enclosed the pasture. with the application for the grades-four-to-eight funding said the district serves a diverse and rapidly growing community. ``This increase in population has been accompanied by an increase in the number of students at risk,'' the report said. ``Some schools have 80 percent of their students on the free or reduced lunch program. Teachers at the middle grades previously focused on content-area skills but now find themselves increasingly challenged with students who can not read or comprehend the materials presented to them. This creates frustration in the teachers and students,'' the report said. |
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