Our kindergarten intervention groups have been making a lot of progress. The progress monitoring we have been doing is showing great gains in letter identification. Beginning with 24 students who recognized less than 15 letters, we now only have two students in this grouping, one of them being an ESL student from Saudi Arabia that just moved to our school two weeks ago and speaks ZERO English.
We have changed our groups to the following:
Most Intensive Group: 24 students
*4 classroom teachers working with 4-5 students each on identifying all 26 letters and sounds
*1 classroom aide working with 2 struggling students on a few letters at a time..DRILL!
*1 classroom aide working on rhyming with 6 students
Next Group - Still Intensive
*New Reading Interventionist working with 6 students using McGraw-Hill Triumphs reading program.
Next Group - Pretty Intensive Still (though getting soooo much better)
*1 Title 1 Teacher and 1 aide working with 10 students on beginning, middle and ending sounds.
Next Group - Strategic
*1 Title 1 teacher and 2 aides working with 16 students on sounding out cvc words.
Next Group - Enrichment
*1 Title 1 teacher and 1 aide working with 18 students blending words and beginning sentence writing.
Next Group - Enrichment
*1 Title 1 teacher and 1 aide working with 27 (too many) students on writing skills.
Wow~you are so lucky. We do not have any interventionists at our school so classroom teachers do it all.
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