Wow- after looking at what some of my reading specialist colleagues are doing, I feel like we are slackers! There are three of us in a 2-5 building with about 600 students. We each have 9 reading groups during the day for 30 minutes at a time, 4 to 5 days per week. Our district is implementing RTI tiering, so we have some tier 3 (no more than 3 kids) and tier 2 (no more than 6) groups that are pulled out. We grouped them by level early in the year and are seeing them that way. We use the new F&P benchmark kit which gives us the common language and levels we need between grades. Our time does not permit much push in or strategy demonstrations. For those of you that do these in the classrooms- are the teachers told you'll be in or do they volunteer? back to the original question- seeing any group twice a week for 30 minutes is not the best- I would only do it with kids who are basically out of intervention and just need little boost. I tried to split groups last year because of time and when I had kids come twice a week invariably we missed time- a kid was out, trips, assemblies, etc. Minimum 3 times per week for minimum 30 minutes and that should be for the higher performing intervention group. MIchelle- 2-5 NY reading specialist
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