Re: Reading First, Dibels, NCLB

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RF is frustrating. My kids can't stay on task 90 minutes. They
complain that school is boring. I can't blame them. To top it off,
I am expected to teach 90 minutes of RF without materials. All I
have is the teachers guide. Grrr! The rest of the materials is on
back order and will not be shipped out until the 2nd week in Sept-if
that.

8/21/08, Tessa- FL wrote:
> And why isn't comprehension important to early readers? It's
> vital! Reading is worthless without comprehension. DIBELS should
> test comprehension because we still expect K and 1st to understand
> what they read.
>
> We get slammed when ours aren't high enough, too. Are they testing
> the kids or the teachers?
>
>
>
> On 8/21/08, 3rdChicago wrote:
> Tessa - I envy you that you said you got to be
>> creative with RF. At my school, that was the first thing to go
>> when we got RF. I feel like all the autonomy I had as a teacher
>> to be creative, to teach "my way", to follow student interests
>> has all been pushed aside for RF. Now, we must follow our basal
>> with "high fidelity," are not allowed to use novels to teach
>> reading (except outside of our 90 minute block and 30 minute
>> intervention), and must use their materials to the best of our
>> ability before we bring in anything outside.
>>
>
> My school pushed balanced literacy with RF, and thankfully they
> saw there is nothing balanced about RF! We had to be loyal to the
> basal, too, but could balance out literacy as soon as we finished
> (read: rush through to get to the good stuff!) It's ironic that
> now I've lost the ability to be creative when I left RF. I'm so
> ready to walk off this job. I feel like a robot, not a teacher.
> Why did I go to school to be a robot babysitter? Let me teach!

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