Hi, Are you familiar with Read 180 or Achieve 3000? Many teachers in the New York schools, both NYC and the suburban counties of Nassau and Suffolk, have had a great measure of success with these programs, especially in addressing the needs of special education and ELL students.
You want to investigate the appropriateness of these programs for your students. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Jamie Vetter <jamie.vet...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:13:20 To: <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Subject: [MOSAIC] email address/background information/needs jamie.vet...@gmail.com I'm a first year Special Education teacher in a high-need middle school in Southeast DC. I teach three 80 minutes blocks a day of English Language Arts to classes of about 12 students (one block is 7th grade; the other two blocks are 8th grade.) I do not have any aides in my classroom so my direct instruction needs to be based in texts that are "one-size fits all," short, low-level and engaging. My students current performance levels range from 1st grade to 6th grade. So, I need help selecting the best books to use for short segments of whole group instruction to teach skills like elements of plot. Ideally, the text should take no more than 5 minutes to read (we do choral reading). My students then take each skill and practice it through partner/independent reading of texts leveled for appropriate rigor. They also each get indivudalized vocabulary words/different graphic organizers etc. I should probably also add that I do not have classroom sets of books, so I ideally need texts with either black and white photos (better for photocopying). My other struggle is with collecting oral data; it's incredibly difficult to do one-on-one tell-backs or check fluency levels as I am only one person in a room of 13 students that all want my attention... _______________________________________________ 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.
