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rallsco
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
07-13-2018, 09:12 AM
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Reading Fluency Passages
Posted By
rallsco
Reading Fluency Passages
We subscribe to Reading A-Z, which includes a helpful collection of leveled fluency passages.
Also, Readworks.org is free. These passages are well-organized. I often copy and paste text from...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
09-24-2017, 06:31 PM
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4
Would you rather
Posted By
rallsco
Schoolwide
We are schoolwide and I, too, pull groups into my room. Because of the schoolwide classification, though, these groups can be somewhat fluid. In some cases I'll pull a particular group for just a...
Board:
BusyBoard
08-22-2017, 06:06 AM
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2
Start of Year info from reading specialist - public elementary
Posted By
rallsco
Google Docs
I'm also that reading specialist trying to get all the information out to classroom teachers. This year I've set up all of our reading data on Google Docs and shared it with all of the Title 1...
Board:
BusyBoard
08-22-2017, 05:48 AM
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5
Career Day Help!
Posted By
rallsco
Career Day
Our counselor takes the lead in putting together a big career day every other year. We alternate having career day one year and community service day the next.
Some things the kids enjoy with...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
08-20-2017, 04:02 PM
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4
New to Title 1
Posted By
rallsco
Welcome to Title 1
Congratulations on entering the ranks of Title 1. I hope you will come to enjoy it as much as I do. I spent 15 years as a classroom teacher and 10 as a school counselor, but the past 3 as a Title 1...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
08-20-2017, 03:34 PM
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3
Title 1 data gathering
Posted By
rallsco
Low-tech tool
This is probably more low-tech than you had in mind, but I just finished setting up all of our reading data on google docs. I created tables and went ahead and populated each class with student names...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
04-29-2017, 03:46 PM
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2
Title 1 - what do I need to know?
Posted By
rallsco
Schoolwide Title 1
I teach in a schoolwide Title 1 school, which most are in our area. If being schoolwide is what you're referring to, then having a high proportion of students on free lunch allows a school to apply...
Board:
Primary Grades (K-2)
02-21-2017, 06:40 PM
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4
parent-teacher-student interaction
Posted By
rallsco
Weekly Reflections & Student-Led Conferences
Tagging on to the data binder sharing, our binders actually go home every week. Students write a brief weekly reflection or plus/delta chart reflecting on their week. Parents sign the reflection and...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
02-21-2017, 06:22 PM
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1
Dyslexia
Posted By
rallsco
Dyslexia
Our state has a new law effective for the 2018-2019 school year that all students must be screened for dyslexia. What screening instruments are you using that specifically identify dyslexia? Do you...
Board:
The Job Search
01-14-2017, 08:42 PM
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2
expressing interest
Posted By
rallsco
Show Interest
Don't wait for a job to be posted. Make the first move by expressing interest now. I come from the world of smaller schools where there is no such thing as HR or job fairs, so the principal is the...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
01-14-2017, 08:24 PM
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4
Seeking Advice About Big Title 1 Changes at My School
Posted By
rallsco
Focus On Individual Needs
Part of the beauty of one-on-one is that you can really focus on each student's area of greatest need. Any suggestions are kind of a menu that can be selected from based on the student's performance...
Board:
BusyBoard
01-01-2017, 04:01 PM
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8
Drowning in the Talkers
Posted By
rallsco
Ready to learn
You've noticed other classrooms that seem to have a productive learning environment. Are you comfortable talking to a fellow teacher and perhaps asking to spend some time observing in her classroom?...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
12-07-2016, 02:12 PM
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5
Progress monitoring
Posted By
rallsco
Progress monitoring
Reading: We collect data on all students 3 times annually. Between those 3 data collections, we monitor progress on individuals as needed.
Reading data collected in the fall, midyear, and spring...
Board:
BusyBoard
11-27-2016, 12:35 PM
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8
Favorite Christmas Read Aloud
Posted By
rallsco
Christmas Read aloud
Can't beat The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.
Also like The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey, which is not a chapter book, but a longer picture book.
The House Without a Christmas Tree is also...
Board:
BusyBoard
11-27-2016, 12:30 PM
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16
Holiday door contest
Posted By
rallsco
Friendship Lights the Way
Thanks for the idea...I'm probably going to take it. Our Leadership Day is December 19th, so holiday decorating with a leadership spin is in order. I was thinking of having students write about how...
Board:
BusyBoard
11-27-2016, 11:56 AM
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1
Seeking some career thoughts
Posted By
rallsco
What's driving you?
What's your main motivation for wanting to change? Are you wanting more pay? Are you growing stagnant where you are? You mention being underpaid, but then only one of the options you list seems to...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
11-27-2016, 10:48 AM
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1
Title I SLO
Posted By
rallsco
Slo
I've narrowed the focus of the SLO to one grade level that I work with (in my case 1st grade, since I have the most time devoted there).
Here's the learning content:
Understand how English is...
Board:
Primary Grades (K-2)
10-22-2016, 05:56 PM
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4
Using technology in reading
Posted By
rallsco
Thanks
Thanks for the ideas. Creating an imovie is new territory for me, but I'm ready to explore the possibilities. We do not have RAZ kids, but we do have Zing! which has lots of good e-books and we have...
Board:
Primary Grades (K-2)
10-21-2016, 05:28 AM
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4
Using technology in reading
Posted By
rallsco
Using technology in reading
I'm planning an in-service workshop on using technology to teach reading. Any suggestions of most helpful websites or technology tools you use to teach reading?
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
10-21-2016, 05:26 AM
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2
Free Websites
Posted By
rallsco
Free Websites
I am planning a professional development workshop on integrating technology into teaching reading. What free websites do you find most helpful in teaching reading (small group interventions or...
Board:
Intervention & Title I Services
10-19-2016, 06:14 AM
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2
Title 1 Reading Advice
Posted By
rallsco
I currently teach only up to 5th grade, but even...
I currently teach only up to 5th grade, but even they can get the middle-school mindset sometimes. Adding in some cooperative learning structures while still covering the basic components of your...
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