Hi! My school is grade 2, 3, & 4 with about 450 students. We have 3 reading specialists, all servicing 50-55 students for 30 minutes daily. Making the schedule is horrendous, but we take no more than 6 students at a time and students in each of our groups are at the same (pretty much) reading level. That means that our groups may have combinations of second & third or third and fourth graders, and our groups may have students from different classrooms. We have a high 50% ELL population, and those students also receive our services as well as the ELL classsroom teacher. In addition, we have 2 other resource ELL teachers who go into classrooms and have guided reading groups daily with students who are transitioning out of ELL or who exited last year. All classroom teachers are required to have a guided reading group daily with their lowest reading group, as well as at least one other reading group daily. We have 3 paraprofessionals who assist in the ELL and Dual Classrooms. Each grade has 1 class of students who are in the Dual Language Classroom. These groups begin with 12 only-English and 12 only-Spanish speaking students in kindergarten. They are taught by bilingual teachers, one week English and one week Spanish. This program ends in fifth grade, with all students being fluent in both languages, reading, writing, and speaking. Our school reading scores have exceeded State of Illinois standards for at least the last 3 years, and we have been recognized by the State as a High Performing School.
Our School Board has supported their Reading Goal of "Every student yearly needs to make a year's progress in reading, and students below grade level need to make more than a year's progress." We have boxes and boxes of leveled readers in 6-packs that are stored in our library's resource center for every teacher to check out. We also have 6 literacy coaches who are instructional specialists and work with 3-4 teachers for the entire year, helping guide reading instruction. These coaches are regular staff, either reading specialists or classroom teachers, who do their coaching duties after or before school, during lunch, or on plan periods. email me off-line if you want more info. Sheila Eisen, NBCT 2006 --- On Sun, 12/9/07, Barbara McGrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Barbara McGrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [MOSAIC] Reading Specialists Schedules > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, December 9, 2007, 3:57 PM > I am interested in hearing from reading specialists who work > with small > groups of children. How many days a week do you see the > same group of > students and for how long? I don't feel I am able to > get enough reading in > the way it is scheduled at my school. I work with 3rd-5th > grade and some > groups I only see for 45 minutes twice a week. We have > district mandated > curriculum that the students are required to receive in > their homeroom > classes. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Thank you, > Barbara > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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.
