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Number of Students/Teachers in the Classroom

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Number of Students/Teachers in the Classroom

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There are sixteen students (ten girls and six boys) and one teacher (Mrs. Mullen) in the classroom.  The students are in second grade.

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Classroom Bulletin Board

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Ability grouping is mainly based on data from the previous year.  Mrs. Mullen explained that the students' first grade teachers are very aware of their abilities and that she trusts them in the beginning of the year to know which reading level the students are at.  The teachers from the previous year will label students as either approaching, on level, or beyond level.  In Mrs. Mullen's classroom, she has several groups consisting of students that are at these different reading levels.  She does not give each group a name but rather calls out each individual name when asking students to form the group.  This makes it harder for students to label groups as good or bad, and she has had no problems with this method in her many years of teaching.

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Classroom Library

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About two and a half hours are devoted to literacy throughout each day.  Mrs. Mullen utilizes both small group and whole class instruction.  About half of her time is spent instructing the whole class, and the other half is spend in small groups.

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A phonics program called Really Great Reading is used.  This program focuses on preventing and remediating decoding weaknesses.  A software called Accelerated Reader is also used that monitors student reading and guides the students to books that are at their reading level.  The students often read hard copies of "AR" stories and then take online comprehension quizzes on the content.

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The reading interventionist, called the reading specialist, pulls students out for extra help with reading. They use the Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention System (LLI).

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Fountas and Pinnell benchmark assessments for oral reading fluency are used. The program Really Great Reading also comes with assessments that Mrs. Mullen uses in the classroom.

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The classroom library is organized with many books that appeal to several different student interests and are both fiction and nonfiction. At the beginning of each season or holiday, Mrs. Mullen switches the books out and puts new books on the shelves that match that season or holiday.  There is a book room in the basement of the school where Mrs. Mullen picks some of these books from.

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Short and Long Vowel Posters

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Other Resources to Support Literacy Instruction

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Other Resources to Support Literacy Instruction

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One element of technology used in the classroom is an online reading program called Razz Kids that has interactive ebooks, downloadable books, and reading quizzes.  Another element of technology used in the classroom is the software  Accelerated Reader.  Aside from technology, the students remaining in the classroom read chapter books when the other students get pulled out for reading intervention, and they do dramatic readings with parts of the chapter books.

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Representation of Next Generation Learning Standards

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Representation of Next Generation Learning Standards

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There are no targets posted in the classroom, but Mrs. Mullen uses the Next Generation Learning Standards and she verbally tells students their goals for the lessons before she starts teaching them.  Mrs. Mullen does not use the ELA modules because they are too scripted in her opinion, and she likes having the freedom that comes with not using them.

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Language and Terminology Used in the Classroom

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Language and Terminology Used in the Classroom

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Mrs. Mullen is unfamiliar with the Jennifer Serravallo reading strategies.  However, she uses terminology during reading instruction such as problem,  solution, setting, and plot.  She  stresses the importance of the students knowing the meaning of this terminology so that they are able to successfully pick these elements out in the stories they are reading.  Mrs. Mullen also has students use the strategy of rereading when they do not understand something they have read.