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28 At Lincoln County R-III elementary schools it?s all hands on deck with our daily 30-minute intervention times at each elementary school. Intervention time is an opportunity for students to work in small instructional groups on academic and life skills. These small groups are taught by a variety of employees, using all-handson-deck approach, with no limits to who might teach a group. Some groups remediate skills that children are missing. These skills might be improved through exercises like: letter naming, nonsense words, or phoneme segmentation. Other groups may work to strengthen speci?c skills. This could be something like reading ?uency, where students may just need to practice reading, as well as work on strategies such as swooping phrases. very important to place the right person with each group. For example, we make certain that our certi?ed teachers are working with the most struggling readers. To create the groups and decide on the skills to be taught, teachers use assessment data from DIBELS testing (an oral assessment given one on one by the teacher or other sta? member), classroom performance, and daily observations. Teachers then collaborate to ?t all of the pieces together. It is imperative for the students to be placed into the appropriate intervention group. If they are not, the students will not make signi?cant progress. It is also Teachers are seeing dramatic increases in student progress with intervention time. The students who are receiving intense intervention for reading are monitored either weekly or biweekly. All students are monitored by being assessed in the area in which they are receiving help. This way we know if the intervention is working or not. If it?s working, we will see scores consistently improve and therefore, continue with that intervention. If it?s not working and scores do not improve, we change the intervention and try something di?erent. Mrs. Rosemann, a paraprofessional at Lincoln Elementary, said “I see a desire in the students to do better each time they read. I enjoy encouraging them to improve their scores. Since I help to do DIBELS testing on the students, I really get in to their scores and love to see how much they improve!” Meeting the needs of all students is something that we take very seriously in Lincoln County R-III. It truly takes the work of many people to make it happen, but students surely reap the bene?ts of the hard work that is put in by all. INTERVENTIONS: By: Mrs. Amy Porter, Lincoln Elementary Principal Grandma Peggy with Sydney Penny, 1st grader. Mrs. Holder with 1st grade students doing fundations. "Lisa Burkemper Team" LISA Coose-Burkemper AVERAGES A PROPERTY SOLD EVERY 4 DAYS! Seller Specialist DONNA Norton-Vickrey Buyer Specialist #1 For Residential Sales in Lincoln County Broker-Salesperson GRI, eCerti?ed Over 13.6 Million Sold in 2012 Making Your Dreams A Reality. Over 89 Units Sold in 2012 Over 13.6 Million Sold in 2012 Client Services Are Number One To Me!! Over 89 Units Sold in 2012 Full Time Real Estate Agent Multi-Million Dollar Producer Multi-Million Dollar Producer 2013 Bonnie Drewel Good Neighbor Award Recipient In The Top 2% For Sales In Prudential Network Consecutive Quality Service Award Winner Presidents & Masters Club Buyer and Seller Representation Active in Lincoln, Pike, Warren and St. Charles Counties Bachelor's Degree in Marketing and Management from UMSL Consistent Repeat Business 13+ Years Banking Experience In The Top 2% for Sales In Prudential Network Member of East Central Board of REALTORS Member MAR, NAR and SLAR www.lisacburkemper.com Active Member in Community 314-280-5869 Lisa | 636-462-8924 Of?ce | 314-691-4975 Donna