CREC 1st grade of Skills Block Reflection by BetterLesson

Lessons take more than 15-20 minutes.

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Success: Establishing small groups based on microphase

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Lessons are going well.

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Challenges

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It is hard to monitor students who are working on writing practice when they are not at your teacher-led table.

Challenge: Student confidence in their own independent writing ability

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Challenge

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Lacks the foundational skills of building a simple sentence.

Lessons require more frontloading and 15 min - 20 minutes isn't enough time

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Hard to fit all necessary groups and cover all skills needed

It's taking time to adjust to how to best deliver instruction in a 13 minute small group.

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lesson takes 15 minutes, going well

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Challenge

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Need training for teachers on structured literacy, SOR etc.

Success is that students know the structure and routines during Skills Block.

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a struggle!

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Most students can't read independently beyond 10 minutes. This is a struggle.

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some groups are too large based on microphase

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half of our classes are still reading at the word level and decoding every word. Sentence fluency is hard

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Time constraints - hard to fit in all groups and planning/preparing materials is time consuming

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Using word detective activity for accountability, particularly for students who struggle with decoding.

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Some students able to complete reading responses.

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readers are able to do this, not yet readers cannot

Difficulty sustaining attention in books - stamina for IR is lacking

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Huge gaps with the expectations of what was taught in K vs what was taught in our previous curriculum.

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Have begun using the cycle writing prompts, which students are enjoying.

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Decoding most words - fluency is slow

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is there a resource to print out for the kids so they have new word work every day?

Challenges

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Lessons take way longer than 15-20 minutes

Challenge: creating materials. I've supplemented some with materials I already had.

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The writing instruction is limited and students still need tons of support.

Previous training in Structured Literacy has made this transition to planning small group Skills instruction more efficient and meaningful for students.

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Question

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Is Kindergarten teaching students how to write enough for the expectations of what students need at the beginning of 1st?

Struggle: Students can't find books they find engaging within their reading ability. Library still in old leveling not microphases.

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would like to see more process writing so kids are actually really writing more

Challenges:

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I've had to condense my teacher led small groups to from 15 to 12 to now 10 minutes so that I am able to see everyone.

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Material prep is a lot!

Challenging to write in complete sentences - came in to first below in writing skills

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Lessons have required updating slides with teacher learning from previous structured literacy training to more effectively teach how to sound letter map.

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Decodables are boring.

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There is very limited writing instruction.

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Question: How to organize the classroom library so students can find appropriate books for their skill level?

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