Congratulations! You’ve reached the end of Unit 5: Intervention.
As a result of teaching this unit, you, as the teacher, have:
- Continued to press all kids to achieve strong reading growth by setting up strong structures for Independent Reading, including goal-setting and matching kids to books.
- Set clear goals for kids based on what you know holistically about them as readers.
- Strategically planned and executed instruction to address the needs of emergencies and cusp scholars.
- Held scholars accountable for using their goals and coached them to use strategies to reach their goals.
Your emergency and cusp scholars should have grown by at least one reading level, so that you have decreased the total number of scholars whose reading skills are below grade-level expectations or approaching grade-level expectations from the number whose skills were at these levels during the last F&P cycle.
All scholars should be able to identify characters’ traits and how these traits change across a story, if at all. They should also be able to identify the main idea of a paragraph, section, or whole book.
Celebrate your scholars’ successes by acknowledging what they can now do as readers as a result of their work over the last several weeks.
Reflect on your successes and stretches, as well as those of your scholars. Look at your F&P results. Have your scholars grown as readers over the last month?
Scholars must read at home, as well as in school. Are 100% of your kids reading 6 days a week at home? Make sure at-home reading is happening, and meet with families who are falling short to recommit them to this team effort. Also make a plan to ensure that 100% of your scholars read daily during any school breaks. How have you effectively motivated kids and families to read when school is in session, and how can you replicate this success when kids are on break?
Are 100% of your kids reading fluently? Are they using all of the tools at their disposal to figure out the meaning of what they are reading?
Are 100% of your kids doing their literacy homework?
Going into the next unit, make specific reading goals for yourself. Set a percentage goal for how many children you will move in the next 15 days. Set a goal for children who are not reading at home. Who will you get to consistently read at home? Do they understand what they’re reading? What is their struggle with decoding? How will you partner with parents to support their growth?
If you are having trouble meeting your goals, do not wait until you have NOT succeeded. Consult your colleagues. Consult your leaders. ASK FOR HELP so you can meet your goals!