Setting Up Your Workspace for
the Group and Tutoring Edition
| You can use GATE in a variety of settings: | |
| Classroom | The classroom teacher or teacher-trained educational assistant uses GATE with a small group of up to six students. |
| Resource Room | One to six students come to a resource room to work with a teacher on reading. |
| Extended Day | Teachers or teacher-trained parents, community education staff, or other volunteers offer a Read Naturally class before or after school. One to six students work with an instructor at a time. |
Materials You Need for GATE
For GATE programs, the following materials are required or recommended:
Teacher's Guide  |
The teacher's guide has two sections. The first section provides information about implementing the program and instructions for the lessons. The second section is a flipchart with lessons displayed for the students on one side and scripted instructions for the teacher on the opposite side. | ||||||
Student Story Booklets  |
The student booklets are consumable books that students use for the steps they do on their own. The books include a pull-out sheet for each of the 24 stories in a level plus graphing sheets. Student use the story sheets to write a prediction, practice the story, answer questions, practice word lists, spell words, and write a retell. | ||||||
Graphs  |
Students use bar graphs to monitor their progress on each story. Graphing sheets are included in the student story books. The graphs help students see how much they improve between their cold and final timings. It also helps them see how their cold timings improve over time. | ||||||
Timers  |
A digital timer with an auditory signal will help you accurately
time students for the cold timings, practice timings, and final
timings without watching a clock. Order timers |
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Crayons or Colored Pencils  |
Students use crayons and/or colored pencils to mark the cold and
final timing rates on the bar graphs. Although you can use any colors,
we recommend using blue for the cold timing and red for the final
(hot) timing. Order graphing pencils |
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