Re: Departmentalized Reading Teacher

sla

Posted on 6/15/09

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I'll be teaching grade 3 in a departmentalized setting. I
don't like it at all, but at least the teachers on my team
work closely together. Because the other teachers on your
team will be teaching the language, writing and spelling, it
seems like the word and writing block is covered. Guided
(strategic) reading and self-selected reading is now your
domain. 45 minutes will be hard to provide the kind of
instruction you're used to doing, however. If all the
homeroom teachers could do the SSR part, you could focus more
on the guided reading block. The hard part of all this is to
have a fully integrated language arts/reading program. I
hope you can work closely with the other teachers.

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