[beezus]

Please help me find a thread. I have been looking, and tried doing searches a couple times without having any luck.
A few days or so ago, there was a thread about teaching reading 1:1. I've been thinking about this and wanted to check out the thread again.
Does anyone remember it? Can you point me in the right direction?
Also-- if anyone wants to add thoughts here about teaching reading 1:1, I'd appreciate that, too.TIA!!

[Lilacs]

I would love to see that thread also. Research shows that 1:1 is the most productive way to teach reading and obviously allows for differentiated instruction, but how could one teacher ever find the time.

[canteach]

Are you asking about formal programs like Reading Recovery? If so, Google terms: Marie Clay or Reading Recovery.
If you are talking about focusing on one student who is having a difficult time in learning to read, I think you have to find a way to work with this child 1:1, for a few minutes each day. It needs to be daily so the child gets enough feedback on what he/she is doing to know what strategies to continue/eliminate. Novice readers have very little understanding about what works well and what does not when attempting to break the print code. They often develop unique and unproductive guesses about how it all works. Many times they actually think they have to know all the words there are to be able to read. Imagine if that were true how few of us would be readers!

[love-literacy]

Some intensive students do need 1-1 support, however when you do your guided reading, students are grouped by reading level. At that time, as all students are reading their appropriately leveled books, the teacher does spend time with each student individually supporting and prompting to their reading needs.