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We do this on my grade team. I do level for guided reading, but my groups are very fluid, and they change so much that the kids don't catch on. I also group by concept occasionally - I call a group of children who need
to work on a particular skill. I do writing groups during corner time and writer's workshop. I will call a group of children who all need to work on the same thing (periods, quotation marks, expanding the message) and give a mini-lesson just to those kids and have them apply it in their writing at that time. In this way, the children who need help with periods and capital letters get

it, but those who always have perfect sentences don't have to listen to me talk about it over and over again. Also, I can talk to kids about quotation marks while they are writing a story that they need to use them in.

My grade level gives pretests for our math units and then splits the groups up based on the concepts the children need help with. We all do math at the same time, and each teacher can teach the concepts to a group that all need that concept.

I could go on, but I've got to go!!