First Grade In-Class Programs and Gifted Reading Programs

 

 

Our gifted enrichment classes begin in the individual First Grade classrooms.  I will spend time getting to know the students in each classroom through whole group lessons. We will be participating in creative and critical thinking skills activities. First Grade students receive enrichment lessons in their classrooms weekly from November to May.

 

For entrance in the gifted reading pull-out program, students' reading levels will be assessed using the district-wide assessment and criteria (see the "Overview Page: on this site or the district curriculum pages). It is a half year program that begins by February. 

 

Based on meeting the program requirements, a small group of students will be invited into the half-year pull-out Gifted Reading program. These students will come out of their regular class for the duration of year for one 40 minute class per week.  

 

The students will experience a wide variety of genres and strategies necessary to become independent readers.  Students will continue to develop and strengthen their fluency, reading comprehension, text analysis, and critical thinking skills through a thematic instructional approach.

 

All Marlboro Gifted Reading Programs conclude at the end of the academic year.  Students may qualify again for the program in Second or Third Grade based on their performance in the eligibility requirements (see my "Overview Page" for details). 

 

 

 

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First Grade Push-In Whole Group Enrichment

30 minute lessons take place 20 times through the year in each first grade classroom. I lead these lesson and get to know all our wonderful first grade students! Skills addressed are deductive reasoning, visualization, imagery, inferencing, main idea, analogies, imagination, problem solving, process of elimination, and divergent thinking.  

 

 

 

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. 

~Albert Einstein~

 

 

 

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