I want to design some sort of remedial program for our new primary students (from 2^nd grade up to 7^th grade). I am thinking about pulling them out of classes (maybe music) twice a week to work with an assistant and with a more basic book. I’ve never done anything like this before.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Any tips for me?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks,

dear esther,

 

I did have a little browse on the net to see what I could find. 

 

This is what I found by googling: ESL remedial work . There are more links but this one tries to integrate remedial kids with the other pupils in the classroom:

 

I don�t know if that can be of any help. Hope you find a solution. Let us know...
EDIT !!!!!
This one is about mixed -ability teaching and could be very relevant for what you�re looking for
http://busyteacher.org/9946-teaching-multilevel-classes.html

 

Thanks so much for your feedback Mariethe and Afta!  When I searched the net I found some of these sites or things similar.  It seems that most sites address mixed ability classes but few offer any guidance about the program that I have in mind.

 

I once when to a British School conference in Bogota.  At one of the schools they had a problem with mixed abilities.  They had native speaking students in classrooms with zero English students.  They devised an entire program where the zero English students were pulled out of class to work with an assistant.  The program was very successful.  Unfortunately, this was long ago and I �ve lost contact with the people in the program. 

 

This was the kind of thing I was interested in.  But I can �t find anything related. 

I teach ESL to newcomer adults in Canada, and our program offers "continuous intake". I teach the Level 1/Literacy class, so this situation is often a concern for me.  I often use volunteers - student or retired teachers are great - they come in for an hour or 2 and take the students out of the classroom.  I provide the work or resource books - alphabet work, basics with subject pronouns, "be", colours, dates, people, various themes, numeracy etc. and the volunteers guide the students through these.  Once the volunteers are comfortable, they often bring in concrete materials, use magazine pictures, etc.  We try to stay away from computers/phones/ipads at this stage, because the human communication is really beneficial and rewarding. 

 

C. 

Hi Esther, 

Have you heard of Jolly Phonics?