1. 90-Minute Reading Block Scheduling Cohort B August 23, 2005
Examples from Oak Grove School
Barbara Low

2. Overview Reading Block schedules for Kindergarten through 3rd grade
Independent Work time
Double Dose Schedule

3. Kindergarten Reading Block
Reading Block is 2 – 2 ½ hours in length
Three adults in each class
Teacher, ERI assistant, Foster Grandparent
30 minute whole group activity
Includes Opening Routines, and Teacher Read Aloud
Small group activities – minutes each
Includes Phonics, Word Work Activities and reading practice
Use Early Reading Intervention as supplement

4. Kindergarten Reading Block (continued)
All students are participating in the core reading program at varying levels.
All students receive ERI.
We use strategies from the IBR II to enhance the program as needed.
This year we plan on using the 1st Grade “On Level” Leveled Readers at the end of the year with our higher level students.

5. 1st Grade Reading Block Reading Block is 2 ½ hours in length
Two adults in each class
Teacher and Classroom Literacy Assistant
30 minute whole group activity
Includes Opening Routines, Teacher Read Aloud, High-Frequency word activity and phonics practice

6. 1st Grade Reading Block (continued)
Small Group activities – 30 minutes each
Includes Phonics activities, Word Work activities, and reading practice
All students are participating in the core reading program at varying levels.
We use strategies from the IBR II to enhance the program as needed.
Supplemental programs
Touchphonics ERI
Road to the Code Read Naturally

7. 2nd-3rd Grade Reading Block
Reading Block is 100 minutes in length
Two adults in each class
Teacher and Classroom Literacy Assistant
30 minute whole group activity
Includes comprehension strategies, Teacher Read Aloud, and phonics/structural analysis activities

8. 2nd-3rd Grade Reading Block (continued)
Small group activity – 30 minutes each
Teacher works with two groups each day
All students are participating in the core reading program at varying levels.
We use strategies from the IBR II to enhance the program as needed.
Supplemental programs
Touchphonics Read Naturally
Vocabulary for Achievement (3rd grade)

9. Independent Work
Has to be tied to what students are working on in their reading block
Either practice or review work
Accountability attached to work

10. Double Dose Schedule 30 minute blocks in the afternoon
Pull out program
Students participating
Approx. 97% of all strategic students in 1st-3rd grade
100% of all intensive students in 1st-3rd grades
Instructors are our Resource teacher, ESL teacher, Title I support teacher, Title I school coordinator
Schedule put together and monitored by our Early Reading Team

11. Questions