I also teach first grade, and my levels are similar to yours. I meet with my high kids less often, and I see my low kids daily for guided reading. I follow the "Small Group Instruction" model from Beverly Tyner. (It's a book- available from International Reading Association) It's a system that is loosely based on the RR model. Anyway, in years past, I have had a lot of success with this format. Hope this helps.
Alison On 1/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
