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Question: To gain understanding of the students you will be working with and to learn more about how to apply the Science of Reading and integrate creative arts when instructing students in ELA, interview your mentor teacher. You will submit a copy of your interview notes. For the interview, focus on addressing each of the following:

• Describe the literacy needs and abilities (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) of the students you typically teach.
• Discuss the various literacy skills that are typically taught at the grade level(s) you most frequently teach.
• Explain how you apply your knowledge of the Science of Reading, Scarborough's Reading Rope, and research-based instructional best practices. Include specific discussion of the language processing requirements that are necessary for students to be proficient in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
• Describe explicit, systematic, cumulative, and multisensory instructional strategies that you employ in the classroom to teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and provide an example of each.
• Describe how exceptionalities, including dyslexia, can affect the acquisition of reading and writing skills. Provide examples of how these exceptionalities can vary in presentation and degree within the classroom.
• Explain why it is important to differentiate instruction for various students including ELLs, students with exceptionalities, above grade level students, below grade level students, and struggling, striving, and reluctant readers. Include discussion of the challenges you face in providing instruction that meets the diverse needs of students.
• Describe strategies for collecting formal and informal data and using assessments to help you make decisions about ELA instruction, remediation, and intervention strategies that are appropriate for your students.
• Describe the use of RTI and discuss how you select remediation strategies that are appropriate for students.
• Explain how you typically develop an intervention plan for students who are struggling with ELA and literacy skills, particularly in reading and/or writing.
• Explain how you have set up the classroom to promote literacy skills.