Our third grade team has hit a bit of a rut with regards to our "bubble" kids. These are the students who are straddling the line of reading on-grade level versus below-grade level. These students are decent decoders, but need to strengthen their comprehension skills. One of the reading interventions we have to help this group is Houghton Mifflin's Soar to Sucess. This program is used strictly as a "double dip" intervention which means it's given in addition to regular guided reading. Because of the way our school has chosen to use 'Soar', we can't use it in our regular guided reading groups, but we can use Soar to Success' core ideal of reciprocal teaching to reach these students.
The four strategies of reciprocal teaching are:
-Predicting: students make predictions based on the title, passages in the book, and pictures.
-Questioning: students ask questions about the content and ideas.
-Clarifying: students go back and make sense of something that may have been confusing.
-Summarizing: students will briefly retell the main ideas.
We are planning to unveil these strategies in a week-long rollout after the Thanksgiving holiday. We're going to spend one day explaining reciprocal teaching, then the remaining four days on each strategy during the whole group lessons. The hope is to have consistency between homeroom teachers, ESOL teachers, and paraeducators.
I'm looking forward to the chance to slow down the pace of guided reading and allow the kids to truly analyze what we're reading. Our reading specialist loaded us up with resources including cards, posters, lesson plans, and notes from LiteracyMalden.
For those who are interested in Soar to Success, here's a look at my reading intervention glog:
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