LIFT is short for.....Learning is Fun Together! Monday the children started new learning groups. LIFT is a time where students will work in small groups on reading skills in concentrated lessons. Groups are mixed with students from grades K-1st. Students will remain with the same group for 3 weeks. Each child has been evaluated and placed according to their needs. The students will be pre and post tested during their LIFT time to monitor their progress. There are 5 staff members working with groups during our LIFT time. Groups will work on a variety of skills during the year. Some examples are Letter sounds, Consonant Vowel Consonant patterns, Silent E, Blends, Digraphs, and advanced skills such as R-Controlled Vowels and Consonant Clusters, Silent Consonants and Consonant Digraphs. I will be supervising a group that is working on CVC words (consonant vowel consonant). At parent teacher conferences I will share more information on MTSS and the strategies we are using to improve our reading program. Here is a list of websites that the children will work on during Computers and LIFT class this week.
READING
http://pbskids.org/wordworld/characters/game_frm.html
http://www.softschools.com/language_arts/phonics/missing_vowel.jsp
http://www.ictgames.com/machine.html
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f