Read 180

I am currently teacher assisting in a 5th grade language arts and math classroom. My cooperating teacher just got trained to teach this new reading program called Read 180. It is a program created by Scholastic. We have about twenty-one kids, and there are three different groups, each sharing similar reading levels I believe. For twenty minutes there is whole classroom instruction. The students then go into groups of seven and have three rotations that are twenty minutes each. At the end, they come back as a class for ten minutes. One station is silent reading, and sometimes the students can record themselves reading, and play it back to themselves. One station is a small group station with the teacher. They go through something called rBooks. The last station is where the students work on computers and go through the Read 180 program. There are the reading zone, success zone, spelling zone, word zone, and writing zone. The students are just now learning how the whole program works. I am interested in seeing what the software will be like because each zone has something different, and it is all through the computer. Each student's progress can be viewed by the teacher, and the teacher can hear them when they record themselves reading. I think this reading program is great because it has all different components. Whole group instruction, small group, individual work, technology incorporated, and students still get to hand write some things. Some of the zones seem better than others to me, or more helpful for students, so I guess I will just have to wait and see how it goes.

Read more about Read 180 by clicking the link below.
http://read180.scholastic.com/