Off to a Good Start!!

Our first week of RtI went very well! The students seem to be excited about switching rooms and learning with different friends throughout the day. I am very happy to be working with many different students. We will continue to have fun with words! We are identifying rhyming words, isolating beginning and ending sounds of words, and blending and segmenting compound words. We are also practicing with different types of sentences, such as reading with "feeling" when we see an exclamation point. I will continue to use Michael Heggerty's Phonemic Awareness Program as well as Wilson Fundations Program to provide the skills needed to help each student succeed.

RtI Begins

RtI has begun!! Our first two days of the RtI program went very well! Students are busy moving to different classrooms for Reading. They are receiving instruction directed to their specific academic needs. I will be working in Mrs. Krep's kindergarten classroom, Ms. Tracy's 1st grade classroom, and Mrs. Olsen's 2nd grade classroom. I will be focusing primarily on the Michael Heggerty program. The Michael Heggerty program focuses on phonics and phonemic awareness.

Week of 9/15/08

Busy Bees

We are still buzzing around to prepare for the start of RtI on Monday, September 22nd. The RtI team has been working dilligently on the RtI schedules for kindergarten, first and second grades. Bzzzzzz,Bzzzzzzzz, I must get back to planning and preparing...only a few more days!

Response To Intervention

Center Cass School District #66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response to Intervention (RtI). RtI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RtI provides an improved process and structure for school teams in designing, implementing, and evaluating educational interventions.

Reading

This week we have been administering the aimsweb test to the children in kindergarten, first, and second grade. We are still preparing for the beginning of the RTI program which will start Monday, September 22nd at Elizabeth Ide.

RtI

Center Cass School District #66 is in the process of implementing an Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) mandate, Response to Intervention (RTI). RTI is an array of procedures that can be used to determine if and how students respond to specific changes in instruction. RTI provides an improved process and structure for school teams in designing, implementing, and evaluating educational interventions.