CIRCULATION 15,000 Free October 5, 2018 Truck Scrapes Tunnel Top And Halts Travels for Hours By Stefanie Jackson Chesapeake Tunnel Joint Venture, the A tractor-trailer traveling northbound company constructing the new parallel on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel tunnel at Thimble Shoals channel. was involved in a single-vehicle accident Bridge-tunnel officials gave details inside the Thimble Shoals tunnel on about the accident in a follow-up press Monday at approximately 11 a.m. release. The truck was transporting a No one was injured, but traffic de- piece of heavy construction equipment lays persisted for about 16.5 hours un- from Island One to Island Two, one of til approximately 3:30 a.m. Tuesday. four manmade islands that are part Some travelers reported on Facebook of the bridge-tunnel system, when the being delayed as much as 6-8 hours. tractor-trailer struck the tunnel ceiling. The tractor-trailer belonged to (Continued on Page 5) Photo, left, courtesy of Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Photo, right, by Rob Heady Damage to the Thimble Shoals tunnel (left) shut down the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel for part of the day Monday. Intermittent closures and alternating lane closures delayed travelers by as many as six to eight hours. Those stuck in traffic made the best of their time on the bridge, like this unidentified man who happened to have his fishing gear on hand. 2 • EASTERN SHORE POST • OCTOBER 5, 2018 Northampton Hopes Level Literacy Intervention Will Boost Middle School Reading Skills By Stefanie Jackson er program, but puts “real books in kids’ Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., School students could be brought in Northampton Middle School Princi- hands,” he said. and The Ohio State University in Co- to assist with small-group reading pal Ron Yorko met with the Northamp- He wanted to clear up the misconcep- lumbus, Ohio. The Literacy Collabora- instruction. ton school board on Sept. 27 to explain his tion that the Level Literacy Intervention tive is based on the work of educators, Yorko did not give Parks and Molera plan for schoolwide implementation of is only for elementary school students. In researchers, and authors Irene Fountas a hard “no,” but he was hesitant to ap- the Level Literacy Intervention in what the LLI program, reading levels corre- and Gay Su Pinnell. prove the suggestion because the high he called “an all hands on deck approach” spond to the letters of the alphabet, with The Literacy Collaborative is de- school students have no background or to improve student reading skills. A as the lowest level and Z as the high- fined as a “comprehensive literacy re- training in literacy intervention, he said. The larger goal is for Northampton est for elementary school through mid- form model” for providing, in addition LLI assessment training was done Middle School to surpass its current dle school. High school and adult-level to a “good first teaching, multiple layers at the end of September and the assess- state accreditation rating of “accredit- reading levels are categorized as Z+. of intervention” that “are theoretically ment was scheduled to be completed this ed with conditions” and achieve the top There are several other Virgin- aligned and research-based.” LLI is rec- week. Next week, students in English rating of “accredited.” The school divi- ia school divisions that use the Level ommended as an appropriate literacy skills classes will be regrouped accord- sion’s other three schools, Northamp- Literacy Intervention at the middle intervention for use in small groups. ing to their LLI reading levels, and the ton High School, Kiptopeke Elementary school level, including Hanover Coun- One obstacle Northampton Middle new reading program will start Oct. 15. School, and Occohannock Elementary ty, which implemented an LLI initia- School must overcome is that staffing After three weeks, the middle School (where Yorko was the principal tive in grades K to 8. is limited, so LLI activities must be school’s LLI team will meet to discuss last year) are all currently accredited. According to Yorko’s research, the done with groups of eight students in- individual student progress and prob- English teachers, special education two “most methodically rigorous, inde- stead of four, the ideal small group size lem solve for any student who has not teachers, and others will collaborate to pendent studies of LLI found that stu- for the intervention to be most effec- shown improvement. make the initiative successful and en- dents in LLI intervention groups made tive, Yorko said. Yorko recommended the Level Lit- gage students in an extra 45 minutes statistically significant improvements” To help mitigate that issue, Yorko said eracy Intervention over Read 180, the of reading every day that will happen on a variety of assessments “compared students will be grouped by reading lev- reading program previously endorsed during fifth period English skills classes. to students in control groups who re- el. For example, students on reading lev- by the school board. Researchers sug- Yorko recommends the Level Liter- ceive no literacy intervention.” els H and I would be grouped together. gest Read 180 must be used in 90-min- acy Intervention because unlike oth- The Level Literacy Intervention is School board members Randy Parks ute blocks to be effective, and the min- er supplemental materials for improv- recommended by the Literacy Collabo- and Jo Ann Molera suggested that imal amount of reading improvement ing reading skills, LLI is not a comput- rative committee, with members from “high-functioning” Northampton High achieved is not worth the cost. New, Local, Used, Collectible & E-Books • New & Used CDs Meet-and-Greet and Fundraiser for U. S. 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