What is an effective intervention strategy for students struggling with reading comprehension for early readers?
An effective intervention strategy for students struggling with reading comprehension for early readers includes explicit instruction that focuses on fluency. Fluency is often misunderstood as it is about the accuracy and automaticity in word recognition and prosody (meaningful expression), therefore, it includes the ability to demonstrate the understanding of the meaning of text by the way it is read aloud. Utilizing the Voice Jar (voices) and repeated readings will help students build skills necessary to become proficient readers.

What are your favorite back to school read alouds or picture books for elementary students?


Foundational reading skills for K-2:
How do you teach reading to a group of students of different reading levels?
To begin the school year, I use a Google spreadsheet to help organize data. I take pre and post test/assessment data from summer school assessments/projects, a student's spring and fall Acadience score (including sub test scores), and their spring, *summer (if applicable) and fall NWEA MAPs ELA score and organize, analyze etc. and arrange students by skill discrepancy, need etc... students less than 9%tile in multiple areas - and data points - are considered Tier 3 in our system and I meet with them asap for intervention. Students in Tier 3 reading intervention are grouped this way - but students in Tier 2 are grouped by classroom times (for ease of scheduling per teacher request) first, and then they are broken up into smaller groups to better align with skill gaps.