Are you wondering what to do when your students have the same need but don’t fit perfectly into a group because they’re reading at different levels? 

This online course is for you if:

• you find yourself looking at your data, willing your students to fall perfectly in to five groups with similar needs and a similar reading level but your reality is quite different. 
• you’re wondering if there are other small group instructional practices for reading that allow more flexibility with grouping. 
• you’ve heard about strategy groups, but have never seen them in action. 

The course:

In this self-paced online mini-course, Oz Lit Teacher and I: 

• look at why strategy groups are an effective practice for small group instruction in reading. 
• discuss the purpose of strategy groups and look at why you would choose to group students based on a strategy. 
• look at some real formative assessment on a class of students and show you how to use your data to group students based on strategy. 
• break down the structure of a strategy group lesson and look at the role of the teacher through the lesson. 
• watch a video of a strategy lesson to show you what it looks like in action. 

This 1 hour online course starts as soon as you sign up and is divided into the following lessons:

• Lesson 1: What are Strategy Groups? 
• Lesson 2: What strategies should we teach? 
• Lesson 3: Structure of a lesson (Part 1)
• Lesson 4: Structure of a lesson (Part 2) 
• Lesson 5: Structure of a lesson (Part 3) 
• Lesson 6: Bringing it all together (Video) 
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This course is suitable for:

• Pre-service teachers
• Graduate teachers
• Established teachers who want to start or strengthen the use of Strategy Groups in their classroom
• Literacy leaders and coaches

The details:

• What: This is a self-paced online course. It includes a series of pre-recorded video lessons as well as downloadable resources to help you implement your own strategy group lessons in your classroom.
• Where: On the Mardi Gorman and Oz Lit Teacher course website (Kajabi) – you’ll get login details as soon as you purchase the course.
• When: This course is available to start right now!
• Time: Approximately 1 hour.
• Cost: $ 65 +GST per person (with 5% being donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation) If you’d like an invoice so your school can pay, just send an invoice request to: accounts@ozlitteacher.com.au and Shirl will let you know how to sign up.