Thursday, March 11, 2010

Mrs. Pellin's Post
March 15th to March 19th
This week we will continue guided reading and Michael Heggerty, skill-based interventions. My four reading groups will each read a story this week on topics including sunhats, bringing a new baby home from the hospital, and a dog going to obedience school. Once again the students will write about what happened in the stories that they read. We will focus on capitalization and punctuation when we write our summaries.

I will be attending the Illinois Reading Conference in Springfield, IL on Thursday and Friday. I will be learning about new skill based reading and math interventions that we might use for the 2010/2011 school year.


I will be using the Michael Heggerty skill based intervention this year with my first grade students. This intervention focuses on Phonemic awareness in its lesson plans. "Phonemic awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which are called phonemes. A child who is phonemically aware is able to isolate sounds, blend, and segment the sounds into spoken and written words." Studies have shown that this awareness is one key to active reading.

This year we will be studying the 9 phonemic skills. These are (ranging from the easiest to the most difficult)
1. Increasing Language Awareness
2. Rhyming
3. Identifying Onsets
4. Blending
5. Identifying Final and Medial Phonemes
6. Segmenting
7. Substituting Phonemes
8. Adding Phonemes
9. Deleting Phonemes


Center Cass School District # 66 has implemented 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 instruction for school teams in designing and implementing educational interventions.

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