Kingsford Heights Elementary highlights K–2 reading interventions during school spotlight

At the board meeting, Kingsford Heights Elementary teacher Holly Wyman presented the district’s early reading approach, describing curriculum and assessment practices intended to build phonics and decoding skills.

Wyman described the district’s K–2 use of Amplify (CKLA) and the Boost Reading online tool, noting that intervention teams meet every 10 days to provide 40‑minute small‑group supports and that students complete one‑on‑one diagnostics after each cycle. To illustrate, Wyman led a short nonsense‑word fluency demonstration with volunteers to show how the MClass diagnostic measures decoding speed and accuracy.

She said teacher and resource staff can view individual student profiles to identify specific skill gaps and use the program to prescribe the next instructional set. Wyman said the district uses these diagnostics both to support RTI (response to intervention) and to prepare students for benchmark assessments such as I‑Ready.

Board members applauded the student demonstration and recognized the program as a districtwide practice used across elementary schools.