At my school (grades 5-8, 265 kids, rural area, high # free & reduced), we decided to designate the first half hour of the day school-wide to the following: Mon & Thurs- SSR, Tues & Fri- Homework help, Wed-Advisories. On the Homework help days, kids needing help in math often will go to their grade level math teacher, etc.
The 7th grade team became concerned this past Dec. with kids who were having difficulty keeping up, but who did not qualify for Special Ed. We identified the 10 neediest, and are reserving their first half hour to the following with the literacy specialist (me): 2 days we work on fluency & SSR (incl. choral reading, repeated readings with graphs), 2 days reviewing fix-up strategies & word study (incl. word sorts), 1 day a week- advisory ( we talk about their academic successes for the past week, they do dialogue journals w/ me, and they set weekly short-term goals). Last June, each grade-level team met with me and the principal to create the heterogeneously grouped classes (3-4 per grade level). With the schedule in hand, we wanted to ensure that the neediest kids who were not Sp.Ed. were going to be able to receive reading intervention classes without being pulled out of their regular reading/writing classes. We ended up taking kids out of either a foreign language, some health classes, some social studies, or some activity periods (25 min. before lunch, gr. 5 & 6). This scheme has worked pretty well this year, and everybody seems happy with it. Parents are supportive, too. Hope this gives you some ideas! Rebecca On Feb 29, 2008, at 9:57 AM, The Plumtree wrote: > No I do not necessarily mean RTI---We are a school that does pretty > well, > API in the high 800's. Last year, our scores dropped 6 points, and > the > district is all over us and our new principal. As a staff we are > seeing more > and more kids in need of serious help. These kids either don't qualify > and/or the won't be qualified. It is the same old story, yet we have > kids > who are not doing well. > > Language arts is my passion, and after reading about schools doing > interventions, I thought this might be an approach we could do. I > made the > suggestion that perhaps we could have our own school wide or at least a > primary wide intervention. And now I have been asked to talk about it, > at > our staff development day next Friday. So I wanted to find out if > other > schools are doing anything like this. My idea is that perhaps the 1st > 30 to > 45 minutes of the day we could do interventions. Kids that need > decoding, > comprehension, fluency building, and grade level kids getting some > intense > work, and then back to their rooms. > > I read some ideas like this before and I am wondering how other > schools, > organize such an adventure. However, I am not talking farming the kids > out > for reading groups as was done in the past. > > Thanks for any and all help > > Marti > > > Original Message ----- > From: "KENNETH SMITH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" > <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> > Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:53 AM > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] school wide interventions > > >> By school-wide intervention, do you mean RtI? We are piloting it this >> year >> and have been using DIBELS to identify students for different tiers of >> intervention. Students receive interventions either in the classroom >> (as a >> push-in) or for more intensive interventions, they are pulled out. We >> provide structured interventions in the specific area of concern, >> based on >> the DIBELS testing, for 8 weekds, then test again. During the 8 weeks, >> there is weekly progress monitoring. We use a variety of materials >> for the >> interventions, but most of them have come from the Florida Center for >> Reading Research website. As this is a pilot program, we are still >> investigating it's effectiveness. I'm not sure yet how I feel about >> DIBELS. This is in addition to my Title I program where I qualify >> students >> based on DRA and teacher recommendation. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "The Plumtree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" >> <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> >> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:30:18 PM (GMT-0600) >> America/Chicago >> Subject: [MOSAIC] school wide interventions >> >> I would like to know if any schools do a school wide intervention. If >> so---- >> >> How is it organized >> >> Who organizes >> >> What program or programs are used >> >> Thanks, >> >> Marti >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ >> mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ >> mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/ > mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. 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