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saxon grouping
By srw

Denise, I too use the 65 book. I have tried an array of things with this program. One that I liked that seems to work is to assign 5 lessons a week. That way the kids can go at their own pace. I would offer mini-lessons
throughout the week on each lesson, attendance was optional. They would turn in their 5 lessons to me as they finished. If it was early, I would then assign them supplemental math activities out of our Silver-Burdett book. Or, would allow them to come up with more hands on math activities that they could complete in the remain time. I felt that this gave my high kids extra time to do

more "advanced" things, my lower kiddos had time to work individually with me, and the "average" kiddos were write on target.
However, as the lessons became harder, I did stop for a while and do more whole group lessons. I realized that the more people I had in a mini-lesson session, the more the whole class needed to be either refreshed or taught.
They were also responsible for keeping up and checking their assignments.
If they made below a 70 then they were required to come to the mini-lesson and had to redo that work.

I hope that some of this is making sense. We also had a math enrichment program that my gifted students would attend, if they pretested out of the material in class for the week.
Let me know if I can be of more help.