Welcome To Mrs. Schutz's Classroom
Curriculum Taught Within My Room
Leveled Literacy Intervention
This reading/writing program is an intervention program or an alternative curriculum for reading and writing within my classroom. It encompasses reading of books at students' independent levels and instruction at their instructional levels. Students are excited to begin reading and increasing their reading levels throughout this program. Writing is also included within this curriculum which teaches students to comprehend their stories and write about them. Books are sent home nightly and I ask that students read the books to someone and parents should sign the sheet with the name of the book, date and parent signature. Kids find it exciting to read the books to someone to demonstrate their new reading skills and knowledge.
Number Worlds
Number Worlds is an intensive intervention program that focuses on students who are one or more grade levels behind in elementary mathematices. It provides all the tools teachers need to assess students' abilities, individualize instuction, build foundational skills and concepts, and make learning fun. It's a unique course full of activities that build foundational math skills and prepare younger children to understand more complex concepts later.
SRA Early Interventions in Reading
SRA Early Interventions in Reading is a comprehensive reading intervention for struggling beginning readers that scaffolds elements of tasks initially beyond the student's abiity, permitting the student to concentrate on and complete only thoses elements within their range of competence. Lessons are designed to scaffold new information in ways that allow students to assimiliate and integrate the information into existing schema. A typical lesson includes seven to nine short activities that encompass multiple strands of content, such as phonemic awareness, alphabetic decoding and encoding, text fluency, and comprehension strategies.
Social Skills
Social Skills are essential for student learning and socialization. Throughout my program, various students need more direct instruction in this area. I do this instruction by either teaching whole classrooms or working with small groups of students. We work on various concepts depending on the students' current needs. Some of these skills are: friendship skills organization, self-esteem, cooperation, respect, listening skills, and many others.
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