Quote:

           “     "In fact, when reading takes a back seat to skills instruction, one has to ask the age old                                                    

               question about the cart and the horse."  -Allington

                Weekly Blast!

Monday, September 10^th                                                    

        8:00AM-12:00PM                Change Agent Training - Jenny & Kristi

Tuesday, September 11^th              3^rd grade COGAT testing

        8:00AM-4:00PM                 Admin Mtg - Jenny

Wednesday, September 12^th         3^rd grade Cogat testing

                                            Staff Development Topic: 

                                                 *Case study of a struggling reader / ILPs

    

Thursday, September 13^th            3^rd grade Cogat testing

         8:00AM                          PAC Mtg @ Gold Mine Rm

         5:30PM                          SAC Mtg @ Gold Mine Rm

Friday, September 14^th

     

             

Reminders/ Announcements

•  Fall conferences are September 27^th & October 2^nd.  Please block out your 

   conference times starting Monday. Parents will be able to sign up this Thursday at  
   12:01 AM.

•  Let Kristi know if you want your student to be the case study for Wednesday's 

   meeting.

      

Go For the GOLD!

•  Thank you Karen O’Day for doing car loop duty and for letting us use the gym Friday.

•  We had a great turnout for our speaker Stephanie Harvey! Yeah!

•  Thank you Rochelle, Tammy, Jessica, Kristi and Libby for your help with the assembly!
•  Everyone that dressed up in their running gear. You all rocked it!

Golden Nuggets

Lounge Duty:  Rossi/Steckler

Friday Treats:  Specials

Morning Announcements & Recycling:  Jones

Morning Supervision:  Graham, Marchese, Nelson, Braden, Hurley

Wednesday Recap!

Ways to assess readers:

·      Individual conferences and observations show how students are applying   

     varying strategies or the purpose of the mini lesson

            * Listen to kids reading and see how they are meeting the identified   

          purpose for reading

          * Capture notes on what is going well and where to push

          * Use a grid for taking anecdotal notes

·      End questionnaire and rubric for measuring thinking strategies

·      QRI & DRA

·      Reader response (oral and written)

·      Website: scratchtrack – virtually keeps track of books

·      Fluency: easycbm.com

·      Running records

Interventions for:

Comprehension:

·      Provide more time for struggling readers to actually read 

·      Provide more time to confer with struggling readers

·       Make sure kids are in the right text

·      “Tease out” which strategies are breaking down meaning

·      Provide Daily small-group instruction

·      Set the purpose for the work you are doing

·      Flood to meet all students' needs

·      Provide before school groups

·      Teach concepts using authentic texts rather than through worksheets

·      Give parents the tools to work with their kids at home

·      Build vocabulary

·      Teach multiple strategies than just “sounding it out”

·      Provide extra modeling and reteaching 

Fluency

·      Tim Rasinski