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welcome to Akron Elementary School we believe that all students can be successful academically socially and emotionally and we are committed to didn't Success Through the development of character leadership and literacy our literacy program starts and kindergarten with her sweet program is a reading program we start at the beginning school year with all of our kindergarten through second-grade student all students are placed in small reading groups based on their reading levels students receive 30 minutes of intense reading instruction based on their knees Library houses hundreds of books for our teachers to use during their reading instruction the levels Library gives teachers resources that are available in their classroom hi I'm doubly reading interventionist at Akron Elementary at Akron Elementary kindergarten through fifth grade students who need extra support based on progress data from the classroom receive extra time working on skills that they need in reading a mass culture two small groups are chosen and instructed by teachers and interventionist during the RTI time a lot during the school day students who are in need of additional support and reading Beyond at your tooth receive more intensive intervention during tr3 with the reading interventionist here they work on reading strategies to strengthen their reading skills just takes place during the school day 20 to 30 minutes 4 days a week intervention is an important part of our day at Akron we see it as an essential piece of our educational program for reading and math success and I'm a kindergarten teacher here in Akron Elementary in here at Akron we Implement Choice time into our curricula during Choice time is a time where children can play and they can choose what kind of meals they want to play with the years ago we were trying to find a way that we could get play back into the curriculum so a few colleagues and I started to do some research on why play is so important as we were finding things from other teachers are already implementing that in their classroom zone is time for Choice time the children have a choice on where they go based on the things that we had set out at the beginning of the year so we have now we have blocks connected straws there's dramatic magnetic tiles and puppets and children are called by their group the other people had their first choice and then they can decide where they want to go from there and then once they have chosen where they want to go they have to make a plan before they can I have to talk to one another on what they want to do and thanks you have to share those materials and then they can make it and they can do it together if you do ask what they play together and then we're just responsible and we clean up you know that's really important for us to get that choice of children so that also that's their environment this feels inviting for them and then they can take risk because you know it's play and it's natural for students it's just the way that they learn so why not bring it here in to School Akron Elementary is a great place where we are doing whatever it takes to equipped all students to be outstanding today tomorrow and Beyond

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