Hi
Hope this isn't too off topic but you are my "go to" people for anything
reading related.
This is only my second year doing readers workshop (i teach first grade).
The rest of my school still regroups for reading meaning students switch
classes and are grouped homogeneously. They are slowly moving away from a
basal
into readers workshop but I'm really the only one who is implementing it
completely with a heterogeneous group and have been coaching other teachers in
order
to help them get started. I definitely believe in reåders workshop and
believe it is going well but i'm feeling a lot of pressure to make sure my
reading
scores are good to show that it's meeting the needs of my students. Anyway,
I'm almost done with my January DRA testing. Profecient for now is a 12.
As of now, one third of my class is at a 20 or above and the rest are at 4 or
below. Many are still on a 2 which isn't even proficient for the end of
Kindergarten. I do have a huge ELL population and am used to having
struggling
readers but the discrepency between my low and high kids is unbelievable. I've
always had many who fell in the middle and now I don't have anyone in between
a 4 and a 20.
My big concern now is how do I plan minilessons to meet the needs of very
very low, and very high kids. They are all reading books on their level
everyday which i will continue to do but I'm at a loss of how to get the low
kids up
without boring the high kids. Please share any ideas.
Thanks,
Cami
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