Each period a resource teacher (Mrs. Dunn--8th grade, Mrs. Miner--6th grade, or Mrs. Habraken--7th grade) joins Mrs. Fulbright to afford students the best possible environment for learning.  This class is designed to assist struggling students in reading.  READ 180 has five stations during a one hundred minute class period.  (See schedule for details.)
    Students begin each day in whole group where they experience language at its best and develop community within the class.  Novels, short stories, drama, poetry, storytelling, and expository readings are explored.  Beginning in the month of March and until the end of April, a concentrated effort is made in test taking skills and self-analysis of performance for TCAPS. 
    The next three stations vary by groupings determinded by strengths and weaknesses displayed by the Student Reading Inventory (SRI) and Comprehension Overview on data from the  READ 180 program. Each class is divided into three groups.  Small groups which include specific reading and decoding skills as well as literary terms, poetic devices, and genres recieves direct instruction from a teacher. At the computers, students engage in individualized, adjusted instruction as needed, develop background/form mental models, and build skills: word studey, fluency, and vocabulary.  Last of these, but definitely not least, is independent reading.  There students gain access to grade-level literature, explore the habits and strategies of good readers as modeled by a "Reading Coach", develop comprehension, monitoring, and vocabulary strategies, read high-interst titles at students' independent reading levels, and build reading fluency through independent practice.
    Finally, at the end of the period, students reflect on what they have learned that day.  Students are challenged to higher order thinking skills through questions that they respond to through journal writing and come together as a community of learners to share impressions and connections with what they have read.

    Rules for each station are posted in class by the particular station.  Students are to move quickly and quietly to each station with minimal commotion in the room. Abuse of the equipment or books in the lab  will result in an office referral with a possiblity of other disciplinary action that could include dismissal from the program.
    The school handbook rules are enforced as well as specific rules for TEAM 8.  They are as follows:

1. Follow directions the first time they are given.
2. Come to class prepared
3. Keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself.
4. Be on time.
5. Respect the rights and property of others.

Consequences
1. Warning (Yellow card)
2. Isolation, class rules written (Orange card)
3. Contact parent
4. Demerits (especially for gum or food or drink of any kind.  This is a lab!)
5. Office referral (Pink card)
(Note: A daily behavior chart is kept.  For chronic behavior the consequences can be upgraded.)

Rewards
1. Verbal praise
2. Positive parent contact
3. Specialty area assistant
4. P.A.W.S. incentive