MLPP-Michigan Literacy Progress Profile training will continue for this year focusing on K-3. The Macomb ISD has updated the MLPP 2001 and added a few new assessments as well as wonderful research based strategies for instruction. We have been working on literacy training for middle school teachers grades 6-7-8, called MiCLASS (Michigan Content Literacy Assessment Standards and Strategies). The literacy training is all aligned to the Michigan Curriculum Frameworks Content Standards and Benchmarks and the New Grade Level Content Expectations.

The MLPP K-3 is an instructional system that provides one way teachers can document and explain what they know about a child's literacy learning and performance levels. The assessment tools, portfolio and individual student profile, along with instructional strategy guidance allows for a common language across classrooms and schools as a child progresses through early literacy experiences. The assessments that allow the teacher to dig deeper into what children understand about literacy and how they process text are: Phonemic Awareness, Concepts of Print, Known Words, Letter/Sound Identification, Hearing and Recording Sounds, Sight Word/Decodable Words Lists and the instruments that assess the milestone behaviors are: Writing, comprehension, Oral Language, Oral Reading, and Literacy Attitudes. 

MLPP 4-5 is an instructional system that allows teachers to look deeper into their practice and develop a better understanding of literacy strategies that increase student success, and assist students in taking responsibility for their own learning. MLPP 4-5 focuses on exemplary teaching and learning and the assessments that drive instructional practices in literacy development. Differentiation of instruction to meet the needs of all learners is a key element in the MLPP 4-5 training. The WMISD has trained trainers for MLPP 4-5 in all of our LEAs.

MLPP Appropriate Use:

•   Administered by teacher who has 35+ hours of MLPP training

• Purposeful collection, analysis and use of MLPP data to inform classroom practice and decisions

• Communication of results and interventions to parents and other educators

• Incorporate into existing on-going activities of the classroom

MLPP FACTS:

During the past few years over 10,000 Michigan Educators learned how to:

• Use the MLPP assessments to determine the strengths and needs of students
• Collect samples of student work and write anecdotal notes to supplement MLPP data
• Create individual and class profiles from MLPP assessment results
• Analyze the data collected from the MLPP to determine the best instructional methods and materials
• Provide appropriate support to assist all children to make significant gains in their literacy growth
• Communicate to parents specific information about their child’s literacy growth
• Share successful implementations of the MLPP assessments and interventions with other teachers