Author: Jessica
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Life as a Literacy Coach (Part 2 – Partner Reading Across Content Areas)
Last week, I wrote about how I use my mornings to support my teachers as they implement our vocabulary building-wide strategy. This week I want to focus on partner reading to get students reading in all content areas. A Little Background During the last 2 years, my school district has partnered with our state’s TASN… Read more
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Life as a Literacy Coach (Part One – Vocabulary Building-Wide Strategies)
So far, my posts have focused mainly on the Reading Specialist aspect of my role. If you remember from my first post about building a schedule, my day is divided into 2 parts. The reading specialist part happens in the afternoon, so what do my mornings look like? In the mornings, I have time dedicated… Read more
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Monitoring My Students’ Progress Towards Their Goals
One of the main things that we work on in my support class is fluency, since all of my students have low CBM scores. Every day, students practice fluency using a modified 6-Minute Solution routine. As a result, we progress monitor every Friday to track their fluency progress. Since my district uses Fastbridge as a… Read more
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Picking a Program That Meets Every Student’s Needs (Part 3 – Fluency and Morphology)
Now that I’ve covered what programs I use for my middle school small groups A and B, it’s time to talk about what they do while they are not working with me. In previous weeks, I have covered the programs that I use that address the different strands of the Reading Rope. Group A students… Read more
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Picking a Program That Meets Every Student’s Needs (Part 2 – Comprehension)
As students learn to read and spell, they need a wide range of skills. This is commonly illustrated using a Reading Rope diagram. I love this comparison because it clearly shows all of the different pieces involved in the reading process. It makes it easier for people to understand the complexities of learning to read.… Read more
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Picking a Program That Meets Every Student’s Needs (Part 1 – Phonics)
Once my schedule was set and I had selected which students I would enroll in my pull-out support class, I needed to select programs that would help them learn the skills that they need. This left me with a conundrum, as each student is different and has different needs. I decided to administer a Phonics… Read more
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Selecting Students for My Pull-Out Support Class
Selecting Students for My Pull-Out Support Class Last week I described the process that my principal and I used to create a schedule that allowed me time to focus on both aspects of my role as a Reading Specialist and Literacy Coach. Read about it here. This week, I want to focus on how I… Read more
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Creating a Schedule that Checks All the Boxes
My principal and I worked hard to create a schedule that meets all of our needs and allows me time to address all of the aspects of my role. Read more
