I am currently using it with second grade and, while it is my first year using the program, find it to be quite effective. It is comprehensive, including the key elements of good guided reading. The books are excellent - a good mix of fiction and non-fiction. The students really like the books and want to read them repeatedly. The only drawback for our specific situation is that each lesson needs to be 30 minutes long with a maximum of 3 students (ideally). I tried to do it with four students and found it did not work well, even though I thought, during the training, that the presenter was overstating the importance of this guideline. I realize Reading Recovery lessons are already 30 minutes long, so that might not be an issue for you. For us, we work in 20-25 minute rotations and found that we had to restructure our entire guided reading block to make LLI work for a small group of struggling students. It ended up working out well, but was a challenge at first.
Everyone in our district using it has given it a thumbs-up so far. Kindergarten has been the only concern as teachers find it difficult to implement without support in the classroom. In our building, Title teachers are delivering LLI to kindergarten. Hope this helps. It was interesting to read your post as it is a "quiet fear" in our district that LLI might replace Reading Recovery. Budget cuts are causing lots of fears and concerns all over the place! -----Original Message----- From: Jeana Wise <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Feb 19, 2010 6:31 pm Subject: [MOSAIC] leveled literacy intervention I am wondering if there is anyone who has used leveled literacy instruction LLI)? I am training for Reading Recovery this year and my school will not be ontinuing this program next year in order to meet the needs of more students. nstead they are hoping to use the RR strategies with more students. LLI seems o be very similar in parts. Has anyone used this? Is it effective? <http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.pipes/pix/owl_t.jpg&imgrefurl=http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.pipes/vector.html&h=150&w=150&sz=11&hl=en&sig2=ThfRUpfK9fHyhMx4U3qM7Q&start=19&tbnid=vG7bH0vq0lf9zM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=96&ei=ta4uReiZOqHIaMypzcoM&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dowl%2Bmascot%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D> Jeana Wise irst Grade enton Elementary [email protected] ______________________________________________ osaic mailing list [email protected] o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://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.
