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**TCIS - Grades 1 and 2 - Push-in Support Teachers**
Each student has a book box in the classroom where they keep an assortment of books, folders and work in progress. As the ESL support teacher, I prepared a two-pocket **'Reading Folder'** for each student I support and placed it in the student's book box. It includes information on current DRA reading level, a reading log, a list of reading strategies to be taught, and a log for student and teachers to list goals and achievements. This folder can be pulled out by any push-in support teacher at anytime and it provides continuity and focus to what each individual student is working on or needs to work on. Of course, the mainstream teacher can insert notes and suggestions also and by utilizing the reading folder, students and support teachers can get right to work with minimal or no dialogue. **Joseph Snider, ESL Teacher**