Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Resource Students Mrs. Ross' class consist of 4th and 5th grade resource students. She teaches 4th and 5th grade ELA in the afternoon together. Her students are on a 1st to 2nd grade reading level. Mrs. Ross incorporates both sets of standards when teaching, but because the standards build on each other she leans more toward the fourth grade standard to give her students a stronger foundation. When it comes to unit testing, Mrs. Ross feels that both sets of students would benefit from taking the fourth grade assessment, and only assessing the 5th grade students on the standards that 4th grade does not address. What should Mrs. Ross do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Although the curriculum does build on each other, the 5th graders need exposure to the 5th grade standards due to end of the year testing. It is extremely hard to juggle all of this. When you feel that the overall class is doing well on a standard, I would place the 4th graders on a computer program or independent work that is geared for that standard, while I worked with my 5th graders on their standards that go a little farther than the 4th grade's. I would suggested modifying the tests for the 5th graders to incorporate 4th and 5th grade standards.