Concentrated Literacy/Basic Skills

The Reading Specialist in the Bergenfield Public Elementary Schools fulfills a variety of responsibilities from providing intensive interventions to readers three or more levels below their grade (based upon Running record, iREADY Reading, and teacher recommendations) to coaching classroom teachers with best practices of instruction for a balanced literacy framework. The current framework is based on the Fountas and Pinnell instructional management system that supports assessing, teaching, intervening, and monitoring students through a continuum of literacy learning. Basic Skill teachers are here to assist students struggling in mathematics and reading (less than two years below grade level).