What is AIS Academic Intervention Services at Marlboro

What is AIS? Academic Intervention Services at Marlboro Elementary School

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

What does AIS look like at MES? ❖Small Group Pull-Outs ❖Push-in Programs ❖Monitored Students ❖Teacher Consults ❖Differentiated Reading Instruction ❖Services can be provided by classroom teacher, AIS 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 ❖Support classroom assignments --

What can you do to support your child at home? ❖Read, Read! (MODEL) ❖Read rhyming songs and stories ✓ let your child fill in the rhyming word ❖Build Fluency – (Fluency and Comprehension have a direct relationship) ✓ Practice sight words to build automaticity ✓ Echo Reading – You read, they read ✓ Choral Reading – Read together ❖Talk with your child about the books he or she is reading.

What can you do to support your reader at home? v Take frequent trips to the public library. v NYS, Curriculum & Instruction suggests that student shouldread a minimumof 25 books, or the equivalent, per year, across all content areas(subject). v Take advantage of the websites provided on my teacher website.

What can you do to support your mathematician at home? • Play counting games • Can your child count to 5? , 10? , 20? , 100? without mistakes? • More/less, greater than/less than • If you give your child two sets of items, Can s/he tell you which set has more? is greater? • Writing numbers • Can s/he write numbers 0 -20? • Can s/he name the shapes circle, square, rectangle, triangle?

Use this to help your child problem solve

Kindergarten AIS Teacher ❖Mrs. Edick • carolyn. edick@marlboroschools. org