Hi Dal, 
 I'll quote my response to Dan to save retyping.
 DT> Please share more of the Quota program.
 
 Quota was a program invented by a couple of teachers based on sounding-out 
 words, sight words and the most common necessary words. The list gets harder 
 as you go down the page. On Monday you pretest the list. The children take 
 home a small activity sheet for homework. On Friday you test the list and 
 if you get your Quota right you may go up the the next number. If a child
 starts on a quota of six they would probably be learning sounding words 
 like rat mit run and some common words like the and etc. They have a good 
 chance of getting their Quota right. The more able kids may be on ten words 
 and may have to spell words like doll girl boy. The beauty is that it 
 focusses on their strengths and allows them to built confidence. I will be 
 starting this with about 14 of my 25. Most will have quotas ranging from 5 
 to 9. The others are just not ready yet.
 Regards, 
 Erica.
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