I agree with Allington. In order to accelerate the reading rate of the students it is going to take every available staff member in the school/district to tackle this problem. The school district is growing immensely therefore, we are serving more students during the intervention time. For example, last year I had small groups of 3 and 6, however this year I have a group of eight students in one of the intensive reading groups. The data indicates the students are not accelerating at the expected rate and I strongly believe it has to do with the group size. The school is currently considered a Title 1 target school. However, the school is in the process of applying for School wide Title status, which will permit the school to hire additional
