SIPPS
4 days 10 hours ago
from admin
The third edition of the SIPPS program has been revised and updated to help you align your instruction to the Common Core State Standards Foundational Skills, meet the requirements of Response to Intervention, and support English Language Learners. Incorporating user feedback, the revised edition of SIPPS includes a new SIPPS card app, more flexibility and interactivity in the printed...
1 week 1 day ago
from Gina Zugelder
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This blog was submitted by a SIPPS teacher who wanted to tell her story.
P.T. was a fifth-grade ESE (Exceptional Student Education) student in a general education classroom. He was labeled SLD (Specific Learning Disability). P.T. was reading on a second-grade level and had difficulties with all components of literacy. He received ESE services because of his deficiencies with mastering...
(3) 2 weeks 1 day ago
from Katy Cortelyou
This is part two in a two-part series.
In part one of this blog post, I shared some of my thoughts about close reading and core literacy instruction within K–1 classrooms. In part two, I promised to go a step further and address the role of close reading from my perspective as a primary intervention teacher. So going back to my original question…
What then is the role of close...
(5) 2 weeks 6 days ago
from Katy Cortelyou
This blog is Part ome of a two-part series.
It is hard to believe that the 2012–2013 school year will be coming to a close in less than two months! It seems like yesterday when I wrote my first blog post of the year, in which I outlined a number of questions related to the Common Core State Standards and my work as a K–2 reading intervention teacher. In my second post, I tackled...
(2) 9 weeks 6 days ago
from Gail Huizenga
In my earlier blog, You're Never Too Old To Learn, I shared my experiences as a new learner of the SIPPS intervention program. Recently, I was given another opportunity as a learner. I was asked to observe an amazing colleague, Ashley Kohn, do the important work of side-by-side coaching with a group of dedicated SIPPS interventionists at Wicklow Elementary School in Sanford, Florida.
With any...
15 weeks 1 day ago
from Katy Cortelyou
In my fall blog post, I wrote about my burning questions related to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), knowing that my stance as a K–2 reading intervention teacher is somewhat different. Well, it is now February! While I have begun to formulate some answers to these tough questions, I also expect that these preliminary answers will evolve as I interact with more readers, engage in...
16 weeks 1 day ago
from Gail Huizenga
This is part 2 of a two-part post. You can read part 1 here.
It has been a week since my last classroom experience with 5th- and 6th-grade students using Developmental Studies Center’s Systematic Instruction in Phoneme Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words (SIPPS) decoding intervention program. Over two days, I was to be responsible for teaching three Challenge level classes and one...
16 weeks 4 days ago
from Gail Huizenga
You’re never too old to learn. That adage was never truer than in the first six months of my retirement. Through two blog entries, I hope to share not only my steep adult learning curve into the world of phonics instruction, but also insights I gained using Developmental Studies Center’s Systematic Instruction in Phoneme Awareness, Phonics, and Sight Words (SIPPS) decoding...
16 weeks 6 days ago
from Valerie Fraser Ruud
Each time we revise the SIPPS program, we make adjustments based on the observed needs of students and teachers who are using the program. For example, as we’re working now, we are updating some of the phonological awareness routines to account for rhyming words specified in the Common Core State Standards (for more about SIPPS and the Common Core, read this blog ...
(1) 21 weeks 5 days ago
from Gina Zugelder
The following came from Debra Goodwin, a teacher, at Goldsboro Elementary School.
After using the SIPPS program for a year, classroom teachers at our school have noticed the difference in their students' reading. We have also noticed that the students who were in SIPPS last year, did not move backward over the summer when compared to students who were not in SIPPS....
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