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Instructional Focus Groups

Narrowing the Focus of Intervention

Lynna Butler & Anna McMullen

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, or the most intelligent,

but the one most responsive to change.” -Charles Darwin

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Many times we have students enter our classrooms reading like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8VAUxeQX9I

Create a video link here

But sometimes they come in reading more like this…

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Vocabulary Activity

Using the following word:

Dysgraphia

Rate your knowledge of the word on the index card.

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Vocabulary Activity:

Dysgraphia a deficiency in the ability to write primarily in terms of handwriting but also in terms of coherence.

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Objectives:

Content: We will be introduced to a systematic way for determining a student’s instructional focus group during a Tier II intervention that is provided in addition to the Tier I comprehensive reading program.

Language: We will develop a plan for implementation of instructional focus groups within grade-level teams throughout our schools.

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Sacajawea’s Story:

6,200 students in the Caldwell School District — CSD, 2010

480 students attend Sacajawea Elementary

60 percent are Latino

86.9 percent live below the poverty line

Our students follow a strict dress code

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2007 2008 2009 2010 20110102030405060708090100

WhiteLatinoF&RLEP

Reading ISAT

3rd Grade Piloted IFG

School-Wide Implementation

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Language ISAT

2007 2008 2009 2010 20110

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3rd Grade Piloted IFG

School-Wide Implementation

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3rd Grade Successes:

• Created Team Agenda• Collaboration Sign-Up• Student Name Cards (color-coded)• Student Folders (color-coded)• Team Norms

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What are Instructional Focus Groups?

Instructional Focus Groups are aimed at moving students through mastery of the scope and sequence of the Mechanical Skills and Mental Schema of Reading.

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Comprehension of Text

Mental Schema

Vocabulary Skills &

Knowledge

Comprehen

sion

Skills &

Prior

Knowledge

Mechanical Skills

Phonemic

Awareness

Phonics

Fluency

Mental Schema vs. Mechanical Skills

Source: National Reading First Regional Technical Assistance Center

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Why are Instructional Focus Groups Important?

Teachers: • Become a master at one focus group • Time-management• Lesson planning• Provides a Tier-II Intervention before RTI Initial

meetings• Knowledge of students’ needs

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Students: • Clear focus of instruction at their level

• Not intimidated, pressured, or frustrated by peers at different levels

• Feeling successes of skill mastery

Why are Instructional Focus Groups Important?

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What is needed to implement IFG in your school?

Focus Group 1 = AdvancedFocus Group 2 = BenchmarkFocus Group 3 = StrategicFocus Group 4 = Intensive (still in Core Program)Focus Group 5 = Intensive (Replacement Core Program)Focus Group 6 = Intensive (SPED)

Knowledge of Focus Groups:

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What is needed to implement IFG in your school?

• Weekly Collaboration Time• Positive Collaboration Team• Clear and Concise IFG Plan• EA Placement• Support Staff “Buy-In”• Assessment Guide

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Outcome Measures from Previous School Year

Screening Data from Current School Year

Significantly Exceeding

Grade Level

Some Risk

High Risk

Group #1 Extension

of CRP

In-Program Assessments

Group #2 Thorough

CRP Instruction

Group #3 Thorough

CRP Instruction

plus re-teach skills not

mastered in program

No Pass Pass Phonics Screener

Pass No Pass

Group #4 Thorough

CRP Instruction

plus fluency

instruction

Group #5 Thorough

CRP Instruction, instruction of missing

phonics skills, and

fluency practice at

90%+ accuracy

level

Group #6 Substantial Intervention with CRP

Group #7 Substantial Intervention

with Intervention

Core

Intervention Core Assessments

Flow Chart for Placement

Source: National Reading First Regional Technical Assistance Center

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What are the benefits?• Protocol for groupings

• Students will have a fair and due process for receiving intervention

• Interventions that can be used for RTI qualification forms

• Less Lesson Planning time required for teacher• More knowledgeable of grade-level instruction

and student growth• Targets advanced and grade-level movement to

benefit STAR rating system per school• Instructional level teaching meets students’

needs

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After Break:

Work time for planning FG implementation

• How to break students up into Focus Groups using Data Driven Analysis

• Dive into Focus Groups• Ideas of skills to be taught in each group• Ideas for the use of Aides• Assessment and fluidity• Work time for planning FG implementation

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Steps of Implementation:

1st Step: Set up Focus Group Descriptors2nd Step: Student Screening3rd Step: Sort students according to focus group descriptors

When we sorted we had a priority grid:Priority 1: FluencyPriority 2: SIPPS Challenge/Extension Placement Priority 3: Lesson/Unit AssessmentsPriority 4: Accommodations

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Relax…we understand…

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IFG Activities:

• SIPPS Challenge Systematic Instruction In Phoneme Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words• Novel Units (with a focus on vocabulary development)• Reciprocal Teaching (handouts available upon request)• Research Projects• Inquiry based writing activities• Nonfiction skills and strategies

*Aide not required for any of FG 1 instruction*Highest Number of Students

Focus Group 1:

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IFG Activities:

• SIPPS Challenge Systematic Instruction In Phoneme Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words• Novel Units (with a focus on vocabulary development)• Reciprocal Teaching (handouts available upon request)• Research Projects• Inquiry based writing activities• Nonfiction skills and strategies

*Aide not required for any of FG 1 instruction*Highest Number of Students

Focus Group 1:

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IFG Activities:

• SIPPS Challenge/Extension 26+• Read Naturally• Fluency Practice (Fry Phrases, Reader’s Theatre, Poetry, Rapid

Word Wall, Sight Words, Reread of weekly story)• Discussion Circles for weekly comprehension checks• Vocabulary/Word Work• Mid-End of year, based on placement in FG, add writing

activities

*Aides are great for Read Naturally/fluency/vocabulary groups, but not required or needed for this FG *Next Highest Number of Students

Focus Group 2:

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IFG Activities:

• SIPPS Extension• Read/Spell/Read of sight words, Fry Phrases, High Frequency

Words• Pre-teach/Re-teach of current story, skills, and strategies

within Reading Program• Dictation• Making Words• 1 grade level below instruction of: read naturally, poetry,

reader’s theatre, fluency passages

*With an Aide, this is the best fit for the use of their skills*Without an Aide, whole group instruction can be done if numbers permit *No more than 3 groups/21 students

Focus Group 3: (AKA Movers & Shakers)

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IFG Activities:

• SIPPS Extension• Dictation• Blending Boards• Making Words• Read/Spell/Read of sight words, Fry Phrases, High Frequency

Words

*With an Aide, students can receive pre-teach/re-teach of current story, skills, and strategies within Reading Program*Without an Aide, whole group instruction can be done easily *No more than 15-18 students

Focus Group 4:

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IFG Activities:

To be discussed with school specialists as FG 5 is a pull-out group for a Core Reading Program Replacement

Focus Group 5:

Students receiving SPED services

Focus Group 6:

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