I teach Title 1, and Reading Recovery



I teach Title 1, and Reading Recovery.

Is your child receiving Title 1 reading services?

I will notify you with a note if your child will be receiving services. You would also have to return a permission form for your child to receive services.

I serve 8 students throughout the year with Reading Recovery. It is a short term intense intervention lasting 12-20 weeks. First grade students are the only candidates for this program. Students come to see me individually 5 days a week for 30 minutes at a time. During that time, they reread 3 familiar books and practice phrased and fluent reading. Then, I take a running record over the book they read the previous day. The running record documents all of their processing as they read. I analyze the errors made to see if they were using meaning, structural or visual cues as they are reading. I then use this information to plan my lesson for the following day. Next, students do a letter identification activity, and write a story in their journal. While they do this, I write their story on a sentence strip, cut it up, and the student reassembles it. The last thing we do is read a new book.

Reading Recovery students bring a nylon folder home each evening. Parents will need to make time to sit down next to their child to listen to their child read each evening. The books sent home are books the children have read before, but now they are practicing reading them with phrasing and fluency…like they are telling a story.

The rest of the students I serve are in the 1st-3rd grade.

My first grade students receive an individual lesson. These students come for approximately 15 minutes--5 days a week. Typically, they will read the book they read the previous day so I can take a simple running record. They also read a new book. We go over sight words during this time as well.

My 2nd and 3rd grade students receive additional reading instruction from my in a group of 3 or 4. We read a novel in class, and I listen as students read. Each 2nd and 3rd grade student in Title 1 also takes a book home each evening. They read this book, and have to retell the story to me the following day.

All of my reading students bring a nylon folder home each evening. Parents will need to make time to sit down next to their child to listen to their child read each evening.

All 1st grade students coming to see me will be learning or reviewing sight words…so check your nylon folders to see if you have a new list in there. I pin a slip in your child letting you know that they mastered their sight words lists. Keep practicing the lists until this note comes home. Then, keep the lists to review throughout the year.

I send home a monthly reading level update on your child at the end of the month. It will let you know what level your child started the year at, where your child is reading in my leveled books, how that compares to the Guided Reading levels, and where they need to be at the end of the school year.

If your child is receiving services in the Title 1 program and you have questions, please feel free to contact me at school. The number is 494-2482

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