[MOSAIC] reading specialists schedules

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Wow- after looking at what some of my reading specialist colleagues  are 
doing, I feel like we are slackers! There are three of us in a 2-5 building  with 
about 600 students. We each have 9 reading groups during the day for 30  
minutes at a time, 4 to 5 days per week. Our district is implementing RTI  tiering, 
so we have some tier 3 (no more than 3 kids) and tier 2 (no more than  6) 
groups that are pulled out. We grouped them by level early in the year and  are 
seeing them that way. We use the new F&P benchmark kit which gives us  the 
common language and levels we need between grades. Our time does not permit  much 
push in or strategy demonstrations. For those of you that do these in the  
classrooms- are the teachers told you'll be in or do they  volunteer?
back to the original question- seeing any group twice a week for 30  minutes 
is not the best- I would only do it with kids who are basically out of  
intervention and just need little boost. I tried to split groups last year  because 
of time and when I had kids come twice a week invariably we missed time-  a 
kid was out, trips, assemblies, etc. Minimum 3 times per week for minimum 30  
minutes and that should be for the higher performing intervention group. 
MIchelle- 2-5 NY reading  specialist



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