​Reading

At Pioneer Springs, reading is a celebration! Reading not only forms the gateway to a world of knowledge and ideas, it is a joyous event in and of itself. Students are encouraged to follow their own interests in reading; in addition to working their way through a series of leveled readers, they also choose a book to take home every night from their classroom libraries.

Because we always want reading to be interest-driven and exciting for students, reading for meaning forms the cornerstone of our literacy program. Beginning in first grade, students meet weekly with a Literature Circle group to discuss connections they feel to characters and events in these carefully selected titles.

As students’ own reading skills grow, so does their ability to formulate their own opinions of narrative content and character motivation, along with the confidence to express those ideas to their peers. This in turn helps build a capacity for empathy that transcends the world of literature to to impact the real-world experience of our students.

R2A Results

Pioneer Springs Community School (60Y000) 201415 Read to Achieve Grade 3 End-of-Year Results		G.S. '115C-83.10 requires each local board of education to publish annually on a Web site maintained by that local school administrative unit and to report in writing to the State Board of Education (SBE) by September 1 of each year the following information on the prior school year:
Note:  The denominator for calculating the required percentages for Rows 1, 2, and 3 is all students in membership at grade 3 for the first day of spring testing.			Number of Students	Percentage
1	Demonstrated reading proficiency on the Beginning-of-Grade 3 (BOG3) ELA/Reading Assessment, the End-of-Grade (EOG) ELA/Reading Assessment, or the EOG ELA/Reading Retest (scored Level 3 or higher)		29	64.4%
2	Did not demonstrate reading proficiency on the BOG3 ELA/Reading Assessment, the EOG ELA/Reading Assessment, or the EOG ELA/Reading Retest		16	35.6%
3	The number and percentage of students exempt from mandatory retention in third grade for good cause. Students may be counted in this category only once.		*	*
The denominator for Row 4 is the number of students from Row 2 minus the number of students from Row 3.
4	The number and percentage of students who took and passed an alternative assessment approved by the State Board of Education (SBE) (i.e., Read to Achieve Test or locally determined SBE-approved alternative assessment). Students may be counted in the numerator and/or the denominator only once for this category.		*	*
The denominator for Row 5 is all students in membership at grade 3 for the first day of spring testing.
5	Total number and percentage of students retained for not demonstrating reading proficiency on third-grade standards (For 2015-16, students who are not proficient will be either: (1)retained in third grade accelerated class, (2) placed in a transition class with a retained label, or (3) placed in a fourth-grade accelerated class with a retained reading label.		10	22.2%
The denominator for Row 6 is the number of retained students recorded in number 5.
6	Charter Schools Only: Charter schools must indicate the number and percentage of retained students recorded in number 5  who do not return to the charter school for 201516		*	*

Note: Privacy laws dictate that for fewer than 5 students, the specific number and percentage should not be given. Therefore, if the number is fewer than 5 students, schools should use an asterisk (*) to represent fewer than 5 students and the percentage. An * indicates that the student population number and percentage is too small to report the value. The percentage and number of students are not shown if the percentage is greater than 95 percent (>95) or less than 5 percent (<5).