WHAT IS READ 180?Carrie Cronan

California Trail Middle School2014-2015 school year

Reading Requirement

All students are required to take one semester of reading each school year.

Students either take Reading Seminar or Read 180

Read 180 is a class meant to help struggling readers with basic skills in vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, spelling, grammar, and decoding

Read 180 is meant to be a class students take for an entire school year; this limits their enrollment in other elective classes

Read 180 class

Students work in rotations: small group, computers, and independent reading

Students will also have a whole group lesson with the teacher and entire class

Students will often read classroom magazines created by Scholastic called Action magazine

Read 180 is meant to give direct, explicit instruction, with lots of assistance from the instructor

Questions?

Please feel free to contact Carrie Cronan with any questions

ccronanct@olatheschools.org 913-780-7220