#read 180

[un-conte-de-fees]

I wish someone would tell me how I should teach the classes I'm about to teach. Like I need a sample syllabus or something! How should I do grades? Can I incorporate an interactive notebook? What about reader response journals? No one seems to want to answer my questions. I don't even know my salary!

[astoldbymissg]

Amazon Wish List

I have not had much time to update about next school year and how my position has changed in my school.

Next year we are anticipating a seven hour school day unless another school in the district is given Priority status.  With the seven hour schedule I will be teaching four hours of Read 180 and two hours of the Language Arts Plus class. I've taught the Plus class before, but Read 180 is a completely new prep for me. It is also uncommon for a school to offer so many sections of this reading intervention program.

Have any of you worked with Read 180 in the past?

I'm using this summer to build up my Amazon Wish List for my classroom next year. I want to provide my students with the materials they will need to be successful and organized, but because I work in a low SES, Title 1 funded school, many of my students are unable to afford the supplies necessary for them to be successful in school.

Does any one have any recommendations as to what I should add to my list beyond the basic school supply list?

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Calling Read 180 Teachers

I teach 6th Grade Read 180 and I am planning the writing portion of Workshop 2 "When Disaster Strikes." I want to make the Writing Segment more aligned with Common Core and more relevant to my students. The recommended prompt is to write about a time when you experienced extreme weather. I live in Southern California and my students have never experienced extreme weather (not even a major earthquake). Have any of you tweaked the prompt for your students? Or can anyone point me in the direction of some useful resources? Thank you!

[hithertokt]

Wiggle room.

Read 180 is prescribed curriculum, but:

Janelle MacLean created "Club 180," an after-school session for 10th-graders because even after completely the program, many students wanted to return to her class. Now students who learned under MacLean act as mentors for younger READ 180 students, offering reading advice and book suggestions.

Christa Miller's Read180 class got a taste on Thursday of what it would be like to work in a sweatshop sewing buttons by hand. Miller came up with the idea to go with the latest lesson, "Stolen Childhood," in the Read180 curriculum. After they read several stories about children who work in sweatshops, Miller wanted them to have a hands-on experience.

Yolanda Jaramillo's students want to be "Top Reader." Her class wall is covered in charts, graphs and lists of standings, which students track as closely as their dads follow sports. After reading a book, students take a 10-question test and must correctly answer seven questions to add points to their scores. "Fig Pudding" is worth 28,970 points because that's its number of words.

[hithertokt]

The middle school position I was offered uses Scholastic's Read180.

I'd have to be trained. Is anyone familiar with the program? Likes? Dislikes?

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