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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
Many times we have students enter our classrooms reading like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8VAUxeQX9I
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But sometimes they come in reading more like this…
Vocabulary Activity
Using the following word:
Dysgraphia
Rate your knowledge of the word on the index card.
Vocabulary Activity:
Dysgraphia a deficiency in the ability to write primarily in terms of handwriting but also in terms of coherence.
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.
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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Reading ISAT
3rd Grade Piloted IFG
School-Wide Implementation
Language ISAT
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3rd Grade Piloted IFG
School-Wide Implementation
3rd Grade Successes:
• Created Team Agenda• Collaboration Sign-Up• Student Name Cards (color-coded)• Student Folders (color-coded)• Team Norms
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.
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
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
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?
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:
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
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
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
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
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
Relax…we understand…
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:
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:
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:
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)
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:
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
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