Today the first grade, our reading consultant, school counselor, principal and myself met to go over the results of the last PSI assessment for the first graders on short vowels.  Since this is only our 4th month into the RTI journey. it was decided that we need to slow down a bit and spend another month focusing on short vowels.  Once again I will be working with the lowest scoring 5 children in 1st grade.  This will require me to learn more new materials which I will check out during Christmas break. 

Today I gave the PASI to the little guys in my group.  It's so exciting to be able to show growth and mark progress for all three.  It was very interesting to find out that my predictions on who was learning the most and who was struggling the most to be totally wrong.   The child I thought to be struggling the most, the one who was the most wiggly and seeming to be off task the most was the one who scored the highest of the three.  An argument for data collection if I ever saw one.