Hi everyone,
I need help completing my yearly plan for my middle school special day class. This will be my second year teaching. I am using the structured Corrective Reading program by SRA. Most likely I’ll have a group complete B1 and B2 and the other class usually tests at B2. I would like to have a program that incorporates other less structured activiities, real reading and writing, discussing literature, and writing minibooks. I just don’t know how to put this all together.
My plan was to present structures lessons 3 days Monday through Wednesday and on Thursday and Friday incorporate my other ideas. Does this sound like a good plan? Will my students still benefit from the C. R. lessons? Please give me some advise and feedback; I have rearranged my planning calandar 50 times/different ways and have no idea what is best.
Thank you, May
Re: HELP!curric planning for newish T.
http://www.perfectionlearning.com/
Here it is ~ I should have know it would be this simple! I hope this helps!
Sounds good to me, *almost.*
I found I sometimes had end-of-period time to read aloud. Start simple and see what works rather than trying to do a bunch of stuff.
HOwever, I wouldn’t do M-Wed. and then have a four day vacation from the intense stuff — I’d do M-W-F. I personally find that having *more* structure on Fridays works better for me — especially if I let them do smething less structured when they’re done the SRA kind of thing.
Let’s see if this will work:
COmprehension links to a bunch of ideas, including some books that I’ve used (though there’s a wide range of levels on the list). We’ve *just* finished putting the Harry Potter stuff into a printable pdf file with graphics & everything that we’ll be marketing soon … tomorrow!… so soon only samples of that will be on the website.
Re: HELP!curric planning for newish T.
Dear May,
I am an Elementary Resource teacher. I realize that you teach older children, but I believe that there are still some modified elementary strategies that would be effective. I teach using a balanced literacy approach. Guided Reading by Irene Fountas and Gay Sue Pinnell will give you the basics of this approach. It uses real literature and a learner need centered approach. I analize what strategies my kids are using in their reading and then I teach them problem solving reading strategies to become independent readers and writers. Phonics They Use (I’m not sure of the author) is another great resource for helping students become problem solvers in reading.
Some lower level, high interest books that I have found to be wonderful for my fourth and fifth graders are called Orbit books. These also go up to a middle school reading level. They are a great mix of fiction and non-fiction and the teacher’s guide has lots of ideas on how to use the books. (If you are from Texas, they are also useful in teaching TAAS or SDAA skills.)
If you want more information, I can try to find it for you.
Good Luck!
Shannon
I think that’s a great idea ~ your students will get a taste of what real literature is like while still being exposed to the mechanics. We do a similar approach in the elem. RR I work in. What we’ve found helpful is a catalog called Perfection Learning (sorry, it’s packed at school and I don’t know the # or web site ~ try searching on the web for them). You can get tons of reading materials there ~ real literature as well as high interest/low reading books. You can also find novels that tie in with many science and social studies themes. What’s great about this catalog is that for each book you can also buy a teacher resource book that includes skill sheets which focus on the book. These skill sheets include comprehension, phonics, abc order, etc. Much of the planning for the novels is done for you, and I believe they include vocab. lists as well. I’ll try to find the web site and post it here for you if I do. Good Luck! Let us know how it works!