Leveled Reading Groups
Reading Is Fun!!!
by Joy Wells
October 09, 2006
MdCV Elementary School Staff have done extensive phonetic and phonological assessments this year on each individual student in order to create leveled reading groups. Leveled reading groups help to allow our teachers to develop more intensive reading programs for their students. Regular Education, Special Education, Title I and Reading Recovery teachers collaborate regularly to work together to teach reading and phonics lessons in small group settings. Teachers use a variety of strategies to help children understand the structure of written language, expand their knowledge of words, and learn new ways of using language. During reading groups, teachers work with students at their instructional level to guide them in using the context, visual, and structure cues within stories to generate meaning. Rather than all students reading the same material, instructional level texts that gradually increase in difficulty are used that incorporate predictable text, decodable text, and books that contain a large number of sight words. Students apply strategies in context and feel successful! As a result, students will become confident, proficient readers who LOVE to read!
