ascend: multi-age community time and guided reading

Multi-Age Community Time

and Guided Reading

Presented by Jayson Welden, Kate Snyder, and Nicole

Medina

Multi-Age Community TimeWhat is Community Time?78 1st-3rd grade students join together in one classroom every morning for 20-30 minutes to participate in social-emotional learning activities with 3 teachers and 2 teacher residents.

They perform skits on our Core Values in their multi-age tribes.

As a result, students build new and lasting bonds across grades.

Multi-Age Community TimeHow has Community Time impacted the life of a student?

Students have a greater sense of community as they play with peers across grades and work with teachers from different grade levels.

Multi-Age Community TimeWhere do we go from here?

We plan to teach about goal setting and build in Accountabilibuddies.

Multi-Age Guided Reading

What is Multi-Age Guided Reading?Data is triangulated across three grade levels and students are grouped into targeted small groups for guided reading. Students move through 3 classrooms to receive guided reading instruction and complete their Literacy Work Plans. CAL Teacher Residents and our literacy specialists pull extra intervention groups, so the student: teacher ratio can be as low as 10:1 during this block.

Multi-Age Guided Reading - Voice and ChoiceWhat do students think of building their own work plans? Click the video to hear first and second grad students share their thoughts on making their own work plans.

Multi-Age Guided ReadingWhere do we go from here? -Goal Setting work in Community Time -Refine Work Plans