1. Carrie Cronan California Trail Middle School 2014-2015 school year

2.  All students are required to take one semester of reading each school year.  Students either take Reading Seminar or Read 180  Read 180 is a class meant to help struggling readers with basic skills in vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, spelling, grammar, and decoding  Read 180 is meant to be a class students take for an entire school year; this limits their enrollment in other elective classes

3.  Students work in rotations: small group, computers, and independent reading  Students will also have a whole group lesson with the teacher and entire class  Students will often read classroom magazines created by Scholastic called Action magazine  Read 180 is meant to give direct, explicit instruction, with lots of assistance from the instructor

4.  Please feel free to contact Carrie Cronan with any questions  ccronanct@olatheschools.org ccronanct@olatheschools.org  913-780-7220