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Reading First Torture
By Dee

I, too, feel that everything is so structured and managed. I believe my children are getting miserable now. They are great at phonics and phonemic awareness, but not so great at comprehension skills. I have about 5 noreaders
still and I am concerned because they are falling further behind. We work hard on differentiating skill levels, but their needs are not being met.
We use Harcourt Trophies. We use literacy centers, but no other centers. I have partner reading center, listening center, spelling center, word making center, and a word building center and last, a guided reading group.
I am finding

out that the visits are picking up and more and more people are making the rounds. They walk in, walk around and look hard.
Then they leave. Unannounced, unsolicited.
The training is regularly paced, but the school is finding more and more ways to stick in extra training during professional development times,