Beginning in first grade, students are grouped by reading level not by class. During reading every available teacher is used to instruct a reading group including classroom teachers, reading mentors, special education teachers and Title I teachers. According to Linda Willis, Title I teacher and Success for All facilitator, students are challenged to improve and move on. Teachers must be adaptable to different groups of students. Every student is always moving so there is a challenge.
Teachers have to be flexible to move to where the needs are.
Lisa Cannon, third-grade teacher, is teaching a group of students reading at the second semester fourth grade level. She believes changing groups is beneficial to the program. It helps when students have different teachers with a different teaching style. I feel we're teaching reading the way it should be done. Everything is organized and everyone coming up has the same background.