Emily O'Marah

• Hired to build Middle School reading program.
• Performed assessments, analyzed results to identify students in need of further help.
• Wrote and delivered customized instruction to individual students and groups.
• Collaborated with other educators to develop instructional strategies.

• Work directly with district ELA Curriculum Coordinator to develop and implement current literacy curriculum for 6th and 7th grade reading programs.
• Collaborate with special educators, classroom teachers and administrators to identify and support students needing specialized reading instruction.
• Analyze and monitor data to identify and support students in grades 6-8.
• Work closely with small groups of 6th and 7th grade students to build comprehension, fluency and writing skills.
• Build active reading strategies using novel-based curriculum.
• Work with students' content area curriculum to support them in strengthening their understanding of complex material.
• Involve parents and Team in placement process and keep them informed of progress.

• Used data to identify students who need additional supports.
• Developed and implemented developmentally appropriate interventions for individual students.
• Facilitated the building's Instructional Support Team (IST) process with the principal, classroom teachers, special educators and other instructional staff.
• Gathered data to track the effectiveness of Tier 2 supports.

Worked with elementary students to help them improve specific reading skills such as letter-naming, initial sounds, phoneme segmentation, and comprehension strategies.

• Used Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention Program, in small groups with students who struggled with reading and writing and not meeting grade level expectations.
• Used the Wilson Foundation Program to teach multi sensory and systematic phonics, spelling and handwriting to K-3 students.

• Piloted a grade 4 and 5 classroom looping program.

• Co-taught a diverse group of students in a combined grades 3 and 4 classroom.