Grove Syllabus

As a resource teacher for the School District of Greenville County, I provide support services to students in grades K5-5th who have been identified as having a disability in one of the following areas: Learning Disabled or Other Health Impaired. These students follow an Individualized Education Program (IEP) that has been developed just for them based on their area(s) of weakness. Students with Learning Disabilities have deficits in one or more of the following areas: Basic Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Written Expression, Math Calculation and Math Reasoning.

Learning and Instruction Goals:

Reading

The student will:

  • Pronounce in isolation words on the student level.
  • Read selections on the student level by using spelling patterns and word parts to read unfamiliar words.
  • Identify the phoneme-grapheme correspondences for digraphs ai/ay/ea/oa/ou/igh
  • Identify the phoneme-grapheme correspondences for consonant digraphs sh/th/ck/ch/wh
  • Will divide a multisyllable word into syllables/identify the type of vowel sound and pronounce the word
  • Identify the phoneme-grapheme correspondences for r control vowels er/ir/ur/ear
  • Decode and use correctly inflected words with the endings ing/est/s/es/ed.
  • Use appropriate phrasing and expression when reading aloud.

Reading Comprehension

The student will:

  • Make inferences or draw conclusions from information provided in passages on the student's reading level.
  • Identify the main idea in a passage written on the student's reading level.
  • Answer detailed questions from a passage written on the student's level.
  • Distinquish between facts and opinions



Writing

The student will:

  • Write simple sentences.
  • expand on simple sentences using adjectives.
  • Create a paragraph and paragraph-built compositions with a clear focus and sequence.
  • Punctuate sentences using periods/question marks/commas/exclamation points.
  • Use capital letters for the first word in sentences/proper names of people and places/days-months-holidays
  • Use the correct spelling for commonly known words.
  • Use revision and editing strategies to improve writing.
  • Correctly form letters.



Math

The student will:

  • Generate strategies to add and subtract numbers.
  • Identify place value.
  • Identify coins and their values.
  • Use coins to make change.
  • Recall the equivalencies: 12 inches=1 foot, 3 feet=1yard, 60 minutes=1hour, and 24 hours=1 day.

I will periodically assess the students formally (Progress Monitoring) and informally using the standard grading scale. My students will be graded on the work accomplished at their instructional level. Graded assessments will be placed in an instructional folder according to deficit area.

All students in my classroom will participate in state and district assessments.

Reporting to parents will be done at least quarterly through progress reports, report cards, narratives, and conferences. Goals and objectives on the IEP will be updated quarterly and the results of my students' progress will be provided to their parent/guardian. Evaluations to measure progress will include curriculum-based assessments, teacher -made tests, standardized tests, and teacher observations paired with the recording of data.