Word of the Year:
Just checking in on your "one word of the year" - how's it going? Have you shared your word with an inner circle for accountability? Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessments
We will be using the results from these assessments to help
us design extremely targeted instruction for our students during our reading
small groups and conferring. At our Power Hour on Wednesday, we will be
digging into these results and doing some planning using the Literacy Continuum
alongside of the assessments. Please bring your Literacy Continuum book
and all of the scoring sheets that you have completed for your students.
At the welcome back, we talked about the following
assessments being completed:
K- any students who
know all letters and sounds and are reading some words
- All students
- All students
- 8 or more students (including students who have not met other reading benchmarks)
- 8 or more students (including students who have not met other reading benchmarks)
- 8 or more students (including students who have not met other reading benchmarks)
It has been awesome to hear teachers’ reactions to using the
assessments and the excitement around how much they are learning about their
readers and the expectations for comprehension at various levels; it will be
exciting to see how it helps to shape our instruction.
If you have not already done so, please remember to enter your DIBELS scores (including DAZE scores for grades 3-5) into the DIBELS system as soon as possible. You will want to double check that if you had any students added to your class after the first day of school, that they were in DIBELS. You can email Kenneth Griswold (Data & Assessment Coordinator) if you are missing any students from your list. The upload will happen to Viewpoint next week, and we want to be sure that all of our data is entered.
Staff Power Hour- Wednesday:
For those of you new to our McKinley Team, we call our staff meetings "Staff Power Hours". Our meetings focus on learning and collaboration, not logistical updates. I will always include those logistical updates at the top of the agenda - we will only discuss items that need clarification.
Click here to access the agenda
Please bring your Literacy Continuum book and any Benchmark Assessments that are completed!
Building Weekly Newsletter:
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Have a great weekend, everyone!
Justin
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