Scenario Response 5

Since a majority of the class is reading 2 grade levels below grade level, I'm going to use the following strategies for the whole group and whole group instruction:

1. 5x5 Fluency
   1. 5 minutes a day of fluent reading strategies
      1. repeated readings of the same passage (grade level text) using choral read, echo read, whisper read, and annotating the text
2. Frayer models for vocabulary
3. Annotating the text along with note taking strategies
4. Modeling!!! Tons of modeling along with guided practice before releasing them to independent practice
5. Finding evidence in the text
6. Graphic organizers
7. Accountable talks
8. Sentence stems
9. Think, Pair, Share and other partnering techniques 
   1. using these strategies before a written response so students hear the thinking of others, have ideas to record, and can free up some of their brain capacity to form a written response
10. Kagan grouping
11. Group projects/group work
12. Test taking skills instruction and built in teachable moments in lessons (quick checks/check for Understanding, etc)

For more individualized instruction, I am definitely going to meet with students and confer, have small groups, and progress monitor.  We would do the same strategies that I teach during whole group lessons in our small group but one grade level higher than their independent level.