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

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90-Minute Reading Block SchedulingCohort
BAugust 23, 2005

• Examples from William Walker
• tonifisher_at_beavton.k12.or.us

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Overview

• Reading Block schedules for Kindergarten through
  3rd grade
• Benchmark and Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Priorities

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Sample Reading Block Organization William
Walker

• Kindergarten (4 sessions of kindergarten)
• Reading Block is 75 minutes (half day for all)
• Teacher teaches all aspects of Houghton Mifflin
  to all learners (mostly whole class instruction,
  20/75 minutes is working in small groups)
• Kindergarten (4 sessions of KIIP, Kindergarten
  Intensive Intervention Program, Title 1 Funds)
• 48/83 Intensive/Low Strategic children stay for
  an additional session of KIIP
• Ratio 1 teacher, 12 students
• Materials used ERI, Language for Learning and
  Pre/Reteaching of Houghton Mifflin

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Sample Reading Block Organization William
Walker

• 1st Grade (4 classroom teachers, 1 ESL teacher, 2
  Instructional Assistants)
• High Strategic/Benchmark Students (22 students
  per class)
• Reading Block is 2 ½ hours in length (45 minutes
  of writing)
• 3 Houghton Mifflin Classrooms (utilize all
  aspects of HM)
• 30 minute small group instruction (1 teacher, 2
  Instructional Assistants in room, use data to
  determine instructional focus)
• Explicit Blending, Phonics Library, On My Way
  Practice Readers, Leveled Readers, Anthology
  Selections
• Intensive/Low Strategic (23 students)
• 1 Read Well/Houghton Mifflin Classroom (50
  minutes of Read Well, small group)
• 1 Classroom Teacher and 1ESL teacher team teach
  Houghton Mifflin for 100 minutes (11/12 students)
• Read Naturally in the afternoon for intensive
  and strategic students

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Sample Reading Block Organization William
Walker

• 2nd Grade (4 classroom teachers, 1 ESL teacher, 1
  Instructional Assistant)
• High Benchmark Class (25 students), Low Benchmark
  Class (23 students), High Strategic Class (22
  students),
• Reading Block is 2 ½ hours in length (45 minutes
  of writing)
• 3 Houghton Mifflin Classrooms (utilize all
  aspects of HM)
• Explicit Blending, Phonics Library, On My Way
  Practice Readers, Leveled Readers, Anthology
  Selections
• Low Strategic/Intensive Students (18 students)
• 1 Read Well/Houghton Mifflin Classroom (50
  minutes of Read Well, small group)
• 1 Classroom Teacher and 1 ESL teacher team teach
  Houghton Mifflin for 100 minutes (9/9 students)
• Read Naturally in and outside of reading block
  for intensive/strategic students monitored by IA

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Sample Reading Block Organization William
Walker

• 3rd Grade (3 classroom teachers, 1 ESL teacher, 1
  Instructional Assistant)
• High Benchmark Class (25 students), Low
  Benchmark Class (24 students), High Strategic
  Class (15 students),
• Reading Block is 2 hours in length (30 minutes of
  writing)
• 3 Houghton Mifflin Classrooms (utilize all
  aspects of HM)
• Explicit Blending, Phonics Library, On My Way
  Practice Readers, Leveled Readers, Anthology
  Selections
• Low Strategic/Intensive Students (12 students)
• 1 Hour of Corrective Reading, ESL teacher and IA
• 30 Minutes of HM (vocabulary and comprehension)
• Read Naturally in and outside of reading block
  for intensive/strategic students monitored by IA

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Assessments

• Classroom teachers administer all DIBELS
  benchmark assessments
• The teacher/IA who delivers intervention is
  responsible for progress monitoring
• All data is reviewed at monthly collaboration
  meetings and instructional groups are reformed

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Priorities

• Building Leadership must create common,
  uninterrupted reading blocks for grade level
  teams
• After analyzing the data, staffing/resource
  decisions must be made from a building
  perspective
• Coach, principal, teachers and instructional
  assistants must meet to analyze data and make
  decisions that will guide instruction

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Questions