I currently teach in a third grade classroom, my school is Title I and we are in our third year of not making AYP. We are requied to teach a 90 minute literacy block. 30-40 minutes of whole group instruction with a 60 minute rotation for stations and small group instruction. We are NOT permitted to teach any other curriculum during this time and cannot have students engage in writing activities unless it is in direct response to something they read. We MUST teach from the basal in the order dictated by the county. My question is...we are supposed to be differentiating the stations for four levels of abilities. I know that we aren't doing this correctly and sometimes not at all. How do we go about doing this? We get very little common plannig time as a grade level. Our grade level chair is expereinced with 20+ years of teaching, but the rest of us have little experience. I have looked at several great books but many of them assume you get to choose the curriculum or can integrate other subjects into the literacy block. I am truly at a loss as to what to do. There is no additional adult with me during this time. I have about five low readers, and the rest of the class is average or slightly above. HELP!!! I feel like I am about to loose my mind. Rosie
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