Academic Intervention Services at Marlboro Elementary School 2nd GradeAIS Academic Intervention Services at Marlboro Elementary School

What is Academic Intervention Services (A.I.S.)? Academic Intervention Services is a program which provides remedial services to students who have not yet achieved grade-level standards in Reading. These services are provided during the school day as either a small pullout group or within their regular classroom setting.    

What does AIS look like at MES? Small Group Pull-Outs Push-in Programs Monitored Students Teacher Consults Differentiated Reading Instruction Can be provided by classroom teacher, AIS Reading Teacher or other qualified staff

Characteristics of Services AIS Groups will meet for direct-instruction 2-6 times per 6-day cycle. Students may be pulled out of their classroom or services may be provided within the students’ classrooms. Groups are aimed to be small in size.

Instruction Evidence and Research-Based Practices Repeated Practices Explicit and Direct to Learners’ Needs Skills focused on: Decoding, Automaticity, Fluency, Predicting, Inferencing, Making Meaningful Connections, Comparing Texts, Identifying Narrative Elements

What can you do to support your reader at home? Read, Read, Read! (MODEL) Build Fluency – (Fluency and Comprehension have a direct relationship) Practice sight words to build automaticity Echo Reading – You read, they read or Choral Reading, Read together Take advantage of the websites provided on my website. NYS Office of Curriculum & Instruction suggests that students read a minimum of 25 books or the equivalent, per year, across all content areas.

What can you do to support your mathematician at home? Apply number sense to the four basic operations Support understanding the use of money in real life situations Invite your child to count up $ for recyclables Share various methods of measurement Let your child make a grocery list using pound, quart etc, read and follow a recipe. Skip count

2nd Grade AIS Teacher Ms. Lyons Marion.Lyons@marlboroschools.org