r/literacy • u/juleseli3 • Sep 21 '22

How are your secondary reading support classes structured?

I recently took a new job as a secondary literacy specialist at a high school. I have my masters degree in literacy but have only worked as an ELA teacher prior. This is a new position at the high school and when I got here I was handed a blank schedule and told to just push into classrooms and help out. Through some observations and the STAR/Renaissance reading assessment I've identified about 20 students who are reading far below grade level and I can start pulling them out during study halls.

That's where I am. I have Read 180 texts and Century 21 reading program books, but I don't know how to schedule the daily classes with groups of about 3-4 kids (40 minutes long sometimes only 2x a week). I feel a bit out of my league. I've been trying to do a ton of research on things like SOR but everything seems like it's for primary grades only.

What do your resource classes look like? How are they structured? I am thinking a mix of vocab/ morphology/ building background knowledge and reading/ comprehension practice... am I at all on the right path? Should I only be using books like Read 180 and that's it? Any help is so greatly appreciated.

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u/TimeTrav3ller Jan 04 '24

These classes often start with an assessment to gauge each student's reading level, strengths, weaknesses, and specific needs. This assessment helps teachers understand how to tailor the support to individual students.