READING & MATH INTERVENTION
 

READING INTERVENTION

Reading Intervention has been a special program here at Thurmont Middle for the last five years. Students in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades are part of the program. The purpose of reading intervention is to assist students who are having some problems with different reading strategies. In addition to improving their own reading skills, the students have become involved in improving reading for our entire community. Each spring the students host Book Buddies and invite children from our feeder pattern to a fun night of storytelling and reading. As each child leaves that night, they carry home a bag of new books to read. The students in reading intervention have become the leaders in reading here at TMS. 
  
MATH INTERVENTION
 
Math Intervention is a program that Thurmont Middle School has developed to meet the needs of students who require extra support in math.  Students are given a diagnostic test as a way to identify skill gaps.  Then they are given work to practice skills that have been identified as areas of need.  It is a program that is designed to provide the students with individualized instruction.  After completion of practice worksheets or end of term, students are given a post-test to evaluate student improvement.

Students are offered math intervention if they received a basic score on the Maryland School Assessment (MSA) in math.  The MSA is our best indicator of the students’ success on the High School Assessment.  The High School Assessment is a graduation requirement.  It is our hope that we will provide the students the assistance they will need to ensure success in all math classes as well as the state standardized tests.