Teacher-Developed Evidence Character Group

Four teachers made up the character group in Spring '23. Each had at least 16 years of experience, to had 25-30 years.

Teachers came from Prince Edward Island, Connecticut, New York and Texas; teaching 1st, 3rd, 4th grades.

Teachers reported a minimum of two lessons during the two-week window. Instruction was nearly evenly split between whole group and small group configurations with one of the 12 students receiving 1:1 instruction.

Students move up the progression, and demonstrate growth in non-cognitive areas regardless of grouping when working with teachers who routinely provide strategy instruction and have significant classroom experience.

The confidence this student gained blew me away! On the pre-assessment I got very basic and elementary information about the main character. The student stated, "He is mean." After instruction, this student was able to describe the character in detail, making inferences, connections and analyzing motivations of the character. The student's academic language emerged and they were able to communicate a description in an effective manner.

This student knocked it out of the park. In the pre-assessment this student reported basic information about the character with minimal cause and effect relationships related to the character's actions. After instruction this student gave a perfect analysis of the main character.

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