pre-inservice response (11-4 staff development)

Our next professional development inservice will be on the Iowa Core Curriculum (ICC). In an effort to better address our staff in regard to our collective knowledge base concerning the ICC, please respond (in groups of 2 or 3) to the following via this blog:

1. List your group.
   
2. Briefly summarize what the ICC is (limit to 1 paragraph).
   
3. Pose 2 questions that you have about the ICC (no duplicates, read what others are posting first).

rolling the dice with reading strategies in your classroom

So what is working in your classroom with direct instruction of reading fluency strategies? How do you know? Please give specific examples.

reading concerns in your classroom

1. Give a specific example of a student's (or a group of students') struggles with reading in your classroom this year. Do not name the student(s).
2. In your opinion, what would fix the problem?
3. Read what your colleagues are posting about reading concerns in their classroom -- feel free to add your comments.