How prepared do you feel in effectively teaching your
students in reading? Is this one of your
strengths? A weakness?
Have you started to plan to the Common Core Standards? If you have, how is that going? If you haven’t, why not? What support do you need?
I struggle with this but I think it has more to do with my students than me. I started out the year assuming that the students could read at the 8th grade level. I've made adjustments as they read on average at the 4-5th grade level. I used adaptive texts and break them down sentence by sentence with them. Lately I've been having them do more and more pairs works, something they are doing in their ELA class.
I'm using the AZCCRS in class in so much that the district curriculum has them. We use Beyond Textbooks and some of they things I have to teach are from grade seven standards and some from grade 8 (the 7th grade teacher has the same issue). Things are going well and I have no issues.
I think everyone's textbook is written at least one level too high! Which makes it really difficult when you students are already at least one grade level behind! I'm not sure what the solution is, but there really needs to be some way to build time in to help the low level readers get up to grade level. If they can't read at their grade level, how can they be expected to succeed? And how frustrating for the teacher to have to re-do the current textbook just so the kids can understand it?
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