Sunday, October 25, 2009

Compacting Out

What compacting out is providing gifted students with the opportunity to skip over lessons that they have mastered and work on a ending project they would share with the rest of the class. For example; I had a group of students that mastered the letter Dd they could identify the capital and lowercase letters, write the letter, and identify the words that begin with that letter. The students would participate with the whole class when we learned the letter of the week song and reviewed sight words. During the time in which we reviewed the letter Dd the students would work in the back with my aid on their ending project. The students had decided to make a song about words that begin and end with Dd. The aid helped the students finish the song and on Friday the students sung their song to the entire class. Compacting out helped my gifted students excel and gave them the opportunity to move forward without having to wait on their peers to get where they were.

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