I teach third, but I have classes like that also. The good thing is with so many highs you should be able to meet with them less often so you can really concentrate on your lows. Some partner reading will also benefit your 4's--or rather echo reading with a partner.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] reåders workshop 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 ************** Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 _______________________________________________ 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.
