90-Minute%20Reading%20Block%20Scheduling%20Cohort%20B%20August%2023,%202005

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90-Minute Reading Block SchedulingCohort
BAugust 23, 2005

• Examples from Oak Grove School
• Barbara Low
• Barbara.Low_at_medford.k12.or.us

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Overview

• Reading Block schedules for Kindergarten through
  3rd grade
• Independent Work time
• Double Dose Schedule

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Kindergarten Reading Block

• Reading Block is 2 2 ½ hours in length
• Three adults in each class
• Teacher, ERI assistant, Foster Grandparent
• 30 minute whole group activity
• Includes Opening Routines, and Teacher Read Aloud
• Small group activities 15-20 minutes each
• Includes Phonics, Word Work Activities and
  reading practice
• Use Early Reading Intervention as supplement

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Kindergarten Reading Block (continued)

• All students are participating in the core
  reading program at varying levels.
• All students receive ERI.
• We use strategies from the IBR II to enhance the
  program as needed.
• This year we plan on using the 1st Grade On
  Level Leveled Readers at the end of the year
  with our higher level students.

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1st Grade Reading Block

• Reading Block is 2 ½ hours in length
• Two adults in each class
• Teacher and Classroom Literacy Assistant
• 30 minute whole group activity
• Includes Opening Routines, Teacher Read Aloud,
  High-Frequency word activity and phonics practice

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1st Grade Reading Block (continued)

• Small Group activities 30 minutes each
• Includes Phonics activities, Word Work
  activities, and reading practice
• All students are participating in the core
  reading program at varying levels.
• We use strategies from the IBR II to enhance the
  program as needed.
• Supplemental programs
• Touchphonics ERI
• Road to the Code Read Naturally

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2nd-3rd Grade Reading Block

• Reading Block is 100 minutes in length
• Two adults in each class
• Teacher and Classroom Literacy Assistant
• 30 minute whole group activity
• Includes comprehension strategies, Teacher Read
  Aloud, and phonics/structural analysis activities

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2nd-3rd Grade Reading Block (continued)

• Small group activity 30 minutes each
• Teacher works with two groups each day
• All students are participating in the core
  reading program at varying levels.
• We use strategies from the IBR II to enhance the
  program as needed.
• Supplemental programs
• Touchphonics Read Naturally
• Vocabulary for Achievement (3rd grade)

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Independent Work

• Has to be tied to what students are working on in
  their reading block
• Either practice or review work
• Accountability attached to work

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Double Dose Schedule

• 30 minute blocks in the afternoon
• Pull out program
• Students participating
• Approx. 97 of all strategic students in 1st-3rd
  grade
• 100 of all intensive students in 1st-3rd grades
• Instructors are our Resource teacher, ESL
  teacher, Title I support teacher, Title I school
  coordinator
• Schedule put together and monitored by our Early
  Reading Team

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Questions