[LIT] model for language arts remediation

Wed Apr 25 09:03:34 EDT 2007

I teach at an inner city school in California and our students in my remediation program are double blocked in my language arts class and have no electives at all. This is also true for the RSP, NSH and ESL students. I have students reading at the second and third grade level in my class yet many of them have creative talents that I wish could be explored in great art and music classes. On the other hand, oh yeah, we don't have any art or music classes at our school. 

  My saving grace has been a new program called Read 180. It involves an excellent computer program, small group work with me so I can individualize instruction and a independent book center with real, high interest, meaty books unlike most of these crazy watered down intervention programs I have worked with in the past. If anyone else is working with Read 180, I'd love to hear from you.

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: Can anyone share their school's model for
reading/language arts remediation? We tried something new
(Chris Knoblaugh)
2. Re: Can anyone share their school's model forreading/language
arts remediation? We tried somet (Melinda Haynes)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:05:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris Knoblaugh 
Subject: Re: [LIT] Can anyone share their school's model for
reading/language arts remediation? We tried something new
To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades."

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Our school decided to limit intervention students to
one elective. Another school in our district chose to
eliminate social studies for the kids, and to give
them a "writing elective" that is mandatory. Yet
another middle school in the district is considering a
seven period day.

Our problem comes next year when math intervention
classes begin. At that point, a child with both LA
and M interventions will have no electives. 

--- Cheryl FORD wrote:

> Can anyone share their school's model for
> reading/language arts remediation? We tried
> something new this year and need to make some
> changes for next year. I'd like to know what models
> other schools use for remediation? We are trying to
> get away from pulling out of electives to remediate.
> Cheryl Ford
> Saluda Trail Middle School
> Rock Hill, SC
> 
> Cheryl Ford
> Saluda Trail Middle School
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:32:34 -0500
From: "Melinda Haynes" 
Subject: Re: [LIT] Can anyone share their school's model
forreading/language arts remediation? We tried somet
To: , "A list for improving literacy with focus on
middle grades." 

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YIKES!!!! What happens when your state or the fed govt mandates a SS test, as they are likely doing in 5th grade in TX, and are already doing in 8th in TX....Intervention students will have no background on which to build....Also, I teach 5th grade LA/SS, and I find powerful reading strategies to integrate into SS, a high interest area for some of my striving readers....Just an observation...

"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations crumble and die out;...But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead."--Clarence Day

Melinda Hawkins
5th Grade LA/SS
McCulloch Intermediate School
Highland Park ISD
(214) 780-2325
haynesm at hpisd.org

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