Thank you Laura! I’m so glad I can be of help!

I don’t usually recommend it, but it depends. If you can demonstrate the required competencies with your class, then it can work.

Thanks! I'm so glad you found me!

I think that would work just fine. Or you could do two reads in a single session in those sessions are long enough to accommodate it. 😊

You are welcome! I hope it helps! Kinder intervention is critical to get kids on the right track if they are already a bit behind. Good luck!

If you look in the show notes or details below the video, there are a number of links available. Is there something specific that you need that isn't there?

I’m so glad the video got you thinking! It’s a tricky part of teaching when kids are at such different levels. When I taught middle school intervention, twice a week I used what I called 'LAB days' - Learning At its Best. I created four stations (two with with adults -myself and my para; and two independent). Kids would rotate through one independent and one adult led with direct instruction each for those two days. It allowed me to work in small groups and meet with those kids where they were at least once a week. I didn't do it all year, but in about 6-8 week sessions. Hope that helps!

Sure! Lakeshore has some nice board games and a great game called POP for younger students. Check out Oh Scrud! If you can . So much fun!

I would love to chat about this with you! Shoot me an email- [email protected]

I’m so glad!!

Hi Jen! I'm so glad it's helpful for you!

You're so welcome!

Hi Tammy! Six Minute Solution is a fluency building resource/curriculum. It comes as a book that is copied for use with students. It was around the $200-300 range before. Not sure what the new publisher will charge. Be sure to watch my full video about the program and how I used it in intervention.

@@EmilyMuccianti Yes, after I sent you the post I started looking into it and saw a video that you did about it. I'll definitely watch the video!

Thank you Brenda! That means a lot!❤️

You are so welcome! I've blocked some time at the end of this month to start my MS intervention course. Stay tuned!

Hi Mr. Z! Bravo for you to look for ways to support your students! We know for a fact that reading is tied to ALL academics and some of our students don't master those foundations skills by middle school. You've hit the major issues in middle school: decoding, fluency, comprehension, and I would add vocabulary. Other issues to contend with: scheduling, grouping, limited resources, and motivation. It's always best to start with assessment to determine who is at risk. The computer adaptive tests (CATs) do not do a good enough job targeting the underlying skills that students struggle with. Acadience 7-8 has a place to start if you visit their site. It uses a gating system to weed out kids that are on track. There are programs that target each of the skills above, but it sounds like you need strategies to support struggling kids within your content class. With that said, you should lean into improving your pedagogy. By incorporating best practices that will help all kids, you will greatly aide the kids that are struggling. These areas may be: explicit instruction and improved lesson design, improved student engagement, added opportunities for practice and/or repeated reading, word morphology within the content you teach. It is a big charge! Feel free to email me or book a zoom call so we can chat about it more. :)

I would love to chat with you about this as it is not a simple answer. Feel free to email me with additional details or we can hop on Zoom for a chat! You can book the meeting here: calendly.com/emuccianti/30min

I'm so glad!

Ahh…. I’m so glad, Jennifer! Thank you❤️

Hi Caroline! I’m pretty old school. I had a lesson plan book that tracked all of my groups. I wish I had kept them all, but they didn’t make it through our out of state move. I also organized all of my kids work in folders. All folders were kept in a drawer organizer by group. I wasn’t very fancy, and I didn’t overly book-keep. Hope that helps!

Hi Laura! According to the publisher, Phonics for Reading is for student is designed for grades 3-12 who need explicit instruction in learning to decode. It also includes a number of other skills. Based on my personal experience, I have used it with kids as young 2nd and as old as 5th in need of explicit phonics instruction. There is a placement test that comes with it to help you see if it's a good fit for your students.

Hi Elizabeth! Most of the time, yes - but it depends on the goals in the IEP. Some kids may have goals related to tier one or content standards and instruction may be delivered in RSP. But the same principle holds true. We cannot take kids out of the core (for whatever reason), drop them back in the middle of the core, and expect them to pick up where everyone else is. They will have missed crucial instruction and be lost or confused when they come back. Now, I know this make scheduling a nightmare, but we have to be mindful of making the best decisions with instructional time that will maximize the benefits to the student. I hope this helps! Thanks for what you do!

I would also like to add that this may need adjustment if the tier 1 instruction is ineffective. I think there is a distinction to made between differentiating the core and remediating. Now, if you have a student who’s skills are so limited that the core is well over their ability, then pull them out to intervene because they aren’t getting anything from the core other than exposure which isn’t good enough. It’s definitely a challenge with RSP and a conversation with the team is important.

Thanks for your comment! Ideally, the teacher (or a stronger reader if using multiple levels) would model all passages on day one after the cold time. On day 2-4 partners time, track, and calculate, but they do not graph. Hope that helps!

Thanks for your thoughtful comment! I’m a big believer in services based on need not label, so yes- we made great progress with some of our students on IEPs❤️

@@EmilyMuccianti absolutely! I think getting some students mainstreamed also helps them a lot better once they get into higher grades not be stuck in SPED. I think you genuinely have the heart to want to see students thrive

You're so welcome! Thanks for the comment!

We have limited numbers of tutors and only those that complete the digital course will be connected after the course completion. This is to make sure that the bulk of the submission is already completed correctly 😊

@@EmilyMuccianti is there a link for it ? Or just look at it from the video ? :) i did the video assessment and i just needed a little bit more points .

Visit www.ricaprep101.com for course details 😊

You are so welcome! I will be working on a digital course to help middle school intervention teachers soon! Stay tuned😊

You’re very welcome!

Thank you so much Jennifer! I'm happy to help!

My pleasure! I’m getting ready to share all that I learned at this year’s summit!

My apologies!! The website has been updated. Thank you for letting me know. If there is still a problem, shoot me a reply.

Just came here to say the same thing!

My apologies!! The website has been updated. Thank you for letting me know. If there is still a problem, shoot me a reply.

My apologies!! The website has been updated. Thank you for letting me know. If there is still a problem, shoot me a reply.

The links are in the video show notes :)

That will certainly be a challenge. I would want clarity on the goal. Are you pushing in to support core instruction or are you focusing on developing literacy skills?

Here you go! QPS - www.readnaturally.com/assessment-tools 95%Group - www.95percentgroup.com/assessments/ Core Phonics - www.corelearn.com/publications/

You're so welcome!

Hi! If I have even numbers of kids that are missing partners, I pair them up with each other. If it's an odd number, I partner with the student. I move kids up a level under one of two circumstances: 1. They are consistently meeting the grade level ORF expectation (with accuracy) on their cold reads or 2. They are well above the grade level expectation by the hot read. Hope that helps :)

About which part are you referring to?

I don’t, but even when it was new, it was in the $160-200 range.

It will be geared toward elementary, but there is a ton of general information that is helpful to all. If you go to the page that is linked, there is an outline of the content at the bottom of the page :)

Sadly, no. I wish someone would snatch it up and re publish it!

My pleasure! Acadience 7-8 is a new screener for middle school, but I'm still learning it, so what I have to share is pretty basic. First, it uses a gating system: 1. all kids take the MAZE - if they are at benchmark, they are done. If not, they go through the next gate. 2. silent reading 3. ORF with Retell. When I was in MS, I used an ORF (Reading Fluency Benchmark Assessor -from Read Naturally), the San Diego Quick, and a vocabulary assessment. It wasn't a perfect situation, but it was what I had at the time. :)

@@EmilyMuccianti Thank you so much!

Glad it was helpful!

Hi Karen! That is the only time my students are on devices. They are matched to an app with skill practice that we have been working on in groups. It's once every 2-3 weeks.

@@EmilyMuccianti Thank you!

Me too! The kids love it!

Thank you so much! This comment means a great deal! My boy is now a junior at Boise State and getting a leadership certificate along with his bachelor's degree. I am beyond proud of him! There is hope!!