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  • How should I document end-of-year Being a Reader Small-Group Foundational Skills Sets 1–5 data?
  • How do I place students into groups for Small-Group Comprehension instruction, and where do I start?
  • How do I place students into Being a Reader Small-Group Foundational Skills Instruction in Sets 1–5 in the new school year?
  • How are students placed in Sets 1–5?
  • How do I know what decodable books from the Decodable Book Collection align to what Set in the Being a Reader program?
  • Are there additional practice texts I can use to reinforce the foundational skills my students are learning in the Being a Reader program?
  • How can I correct student errors during Small-Group Foundational Skills Sets 1–5?
  • What does a walk-to-read model look like?
  • Do students need to know 11 high-frequency words to place into Set 1?
  • How should I display my wall cards?
  • How do I reteach Small-Group Foundational Skills lessons when students don’t pass a Mastery Test?
  • Do the student texts in Being a Reader Small-Group correlate to common leveling systems?
  • Are nonsense words incorporated into the instruction in the Being a Reader program?
  • Why do some of the alphabet wall cards in the Being a Reader program have long vowel mnemonics and other wall cards have short vowel mnemonics?
  • What is the correlation between the symbols and the Small-Group Reading sets?
  • Why do students need to know 21 letters before they begin small-group reading in the Being a Reader program?
  • How does the small-group instruction in the Being a Reader program change over time?
  • How often is a student introduced to a new book in the Being a Reader program?
  • What guidance can you give for administering the Placement Assessment for Sets 1-5 in the Being a Reader program?
  • How do I handle grouping when my students don't fall neatly into small groups in the Being a Reader program?
  • All my students tested into Set 1 in the Being a Reader program. How do I form groups?
  • How do I decide which text to teach in Small-Group Comprehension?
  • If I think I need to move some students in Small-Group Reading Sets 1-5, what should I do?
  • Why are there decodable texts in Sets 1-5 in the Being a Reader program?
  • What is the rationale for the sequence of high-frequency words in the early sets in the Being a Reader program?
  • Where did the high-frequency words in the Being a Reader program come from?
  • Is there a mastery test at the end of each Small-Group Foundational Skills set in the Being a Reader program?
  • Is there a rationale for the order in which sounds are taught in the Being a Reader program?
  • If my students need additional practice with blending in the Being a Reader program, what should I do?
  • Is there a correlation chart for Small-Group Foundational Skills texts in Sets 1-5 and common leveling systems?
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