Burst+1

=Lake Orienta Free Reading= == =Burst #: 1= =Pilot Grade: K & 1= =Date: 3/5/08= = =

**Rate the entire Burst**
=**Level/Focus: Too Easy, Just Right, Too Hard**= Fife/1st grade-My students need blending/fluency practice. Consonant digraphs have been masterd.
 * Fife/1st grade**--Level Focus:Too easy
 * Sanford/1st grade**--Level Focus: A little too easy
 * Braccio/1st grade**--Level Focus: Too easy for one of my students and just right for the other three.
 * Danner/Kdg**--Level Focus: Just Right for the most part
 * Nuñez/Kdg**--Level Focus: Too easy
 * Baños/1st grade**--Level Focus: Too easy for two students and just right for one.
 * Frage/Kdg**---Level Focus: Just Right for two of them, too easy for the other one.
 * If too easy or too hard, explain:**
 * Sanford/1st grade--**At first it was just right but by the end of the first week some of it was too easy (the sounding out activities).
 * Braccio/1st grade--**Consonant digraphs, and blending CVC words has been mastered by one of my students. The lessons were appropriate for the other three students.
 * Danner/Kdg--**The baseball game was too hard.
 * Nuñez/KDG--**One of my 3 students had a difficult time staying focused and was bored easliy.
 * Baños/1st grade--**The skills were just right, however, sometimes it was difficult to get the students to focus.

Pace: Too Easy, Just Right, Too Hard

 * Fife/1st grade**--Just right
 * Sanford/1st grade**--Just right
 * Braccio/1st grade**--Just right
 * Danner/Kdg**---Just right
 * Nuñez/Kdg**-- Just right
 * Baños/1st grade**--Just right
 * Frage/Kdg--**Just right


 * Fife/1st grade**-Some of the "games" are cute and fun, but not practical for small groups. Ex. musical chairs, around the world


 * Sanford/1st--**We liked the games but we needed to combine groups to have enough students to play some of the games. My length of activity time did not always agree with your estimates. The activity where you point to the letter combinations and only say it if it's the focus sound got old fast.


 * Braccio/1st**-- I really liked the games. My favorites were the musical chairs and the word building game. Some of the materials for the games, however took a long time to prepare. We have an assistant to help with the preparation, but other schools in the future may not.


 * Danner/Kdg--** The baseball activity was cute but they don't understand the game of baseball.


 * Nuñez/Kdg--**My students enjoyed the games the most, they were easliy distracted from the stratching out of words and sounding out each letter. They love the 'Boom!' game, 'Ring around the Letter', and the bean bag toss. The baseball game is hard to play as there are 3 kids and no way to make 2 teams without it being uneven and the concept is more difficult for them to understand.


 * Baños/1st grade--**I would change the Word-Form Recognition Accuracy activity because simply having students mouth the sounds does not let the teacher know if the student is saying the sounds accurately. I'd rather have them whisper (or use a low voice) to say the sounds so I can listen for accuracy. The repetition of the activities from day to day was a good idea, however, if there was an activity the students didn't prefer they became disinterested easily.


 * Frage/Kdg--**We enjoyed the games.

**Fife-1st grade--**Sight word practice needs to be added into the scheduled lessons. Blending activities, with the provided word cards, don't last 10 minutes anymore.


 * Sanford/1st grade--** I used decodable books for the reading activities. It would be nice to have some large cards made up with some short passages for those activities.


 * Braccio/1st grade--** It would be nice to have the decodable stories typed larger so that each student can have their own copy. I have been doing this on my own. I also have them highlight the focus letter combination words. I write the story on big chart paper too, so I can begin the lesson by reading it to the students. I think NWF would be a good thing to add to the OPM on day six since we are practicing segmenting and blending each day.


 * Danner/Kdg--**The fonts are hard to read on the cards (i.e. the old style g and a,etc.). Also the students are getting a little tired of the bag game. It was fun at first but now that we do it everyday they don't enjoy it much anymore.


 * Nuñez/Kdg--** It would be nice to have some decodable books that match up with the letters and words we are going over.


 * Baños/1st grade--**The students really enjoyed the games such as Word Potato and Letter Sound Accuracy Musical Chairs.


 * Frage/Kdg**---I would like to add one of my ELL student to the group.It will be very beneficial for him.