Monitoring Student Progress Using Excel; Guided Practice - Page 5

You need to implement a new intervention for Sarah to increase her CWS. When examining her recent writing samples, you decide Sarah could benefit from a planning strategy to help her generate more content.

Task 10: Create a New Intervention Line and Label The New Phase:

• Step 1:Use the Line Tool to insert a new intervention line using the steps from page 3.
• Step 2:Use the Text Box Tool to label the new phase, "Planning Strategy" using the steps from page 3.
• Step 3:Write a more detailed description of this intervention in the area below Sarah's graph.

CHECK YOUR WORK

Task 11: Collect More Data and Make a Decision:

You collect the following data over the next 7 weeks:

• 1/02/2012: 13 CWS
• 1/09/2012: 15 CWS
• 1/16/2012: 15 CWS
• 1/23/2012: 18 CWS
• 1/30/2012: 20 CWS
• 2/06/2012: 23 CWS
• 2/13/2012: 25 CWS
• 2/20/2012: 26 CWS

Graph these data in the appropriate cells after the baseline.

CHECK YOUR WORK

Task 12: Make a Decision Based Upon Sarah's Data:

Examine the last 7 data points on Sarah's graph. Decide if you should:

• Keep your instruction the same,
• Provide some type of intervention or
• Increase Sarah's goal to something more ambitious

CHECK YOUR THINKING

This concludes the guided practice activity. If you have any questions or comments on how to make this activity better, please submit email to to link below. Thanks!

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