Mustang Musings
January 6, 2019
Three Questions Your Students Should Be Able to Answer
2. What is your power goal?
3. How do you practice your power goal?
What are YOU reading?
On Target for IRLA Reading Level
At this point in the year, our students should be at these points:
K-.40
1st-1.40
2nd-2.40
3rd-3.40
4th-4.40
HES creates readers!
On Target for Reading Practice
Bring Your Bling!
ARC Swimming Pool
Are Your Students Growing?
Reading Goal for IOWC-All learners will receive the differentiated support needed to ensure at least a year’s worth of growth.
By now we should see at least 0.3 growth points for students. Things to think about if your students are not showing that growth:
- Have you given them credit in foundational skills for everything they showed they can do during entry?
- Do they have home reading and engagement down?
- Are you able to see those lower students often enough to capture their learning?
- Are they ready for the next level?
Steps calendar for this month
ARC Focus of the Week
- Make sure you are conferencing daily
- All students should know their power goal and how to practice their power goal independently
- Address phonics gaps first
- Reading steps need to be entered daily.
- Every child should be conferenced with at least one time every 10 days. Students in emergency must be met with more frequently.
- Your conference and the evidence you record should be focused on the student's power goal.
Turnaround Tuesday
Teach the Teacher
The WHY Behind Mustang Minutes....
-Lucy Calkins
THIS is what engagement looks like! The students in Mrs. Haislip's class were so engaged in reading that they did not even notice that their pictures were being taken.
Peer Editing
Here are some other resources that might be helpful on this journey of kids helping kids write better:
* https://mrsbeers.com/peer-feedback-students-love/
* https://blog.teacherspayteachers.com/5-ways-to-foster-effective-peer-editing/
* Mrs. Baughman, a 2nd grade teacher, had Feedback Fairies comment on her student's writing while they were at resource. Chat with her and check out the form here.
Suffolk Reading Council
What can I do for you?
- Modeling
- Side-by-side coaching
- Coaching and modeling of using the IRLA
- Round up resources
- Assist with differentiating lessons or materials
- Cover your class so that you can observe a colleague's class
- Cooperatively plan a lesson or series of lessons that meet best practices
- Serve as another pair of hands for a lesson
- Offer strategies for classroom management
- Help you connect with other teachers in the district
- Lend an open ear for a topic of your choice
- Reflect on student learning in your classroom through conversation and observation
- Work collaboratively to bounce ideas off one another to address a concern
- Evaluate new students to guide instruction
Great Idea!
The canopy represents the overall genre of traditional tales.
Types of traditional tales are added to the supports. The handle reminds us that it is fiction.
Information about the setting and characters hang from the supports.
Hardy Elementary School
Email: lhenk@iwcs.k12.va.us
Website: http://hes.iwcs.k12.va.us/
Location: 9311 Hardy Circle, Smithfield, VA, United States
Phone: 757-357-3204
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hardy-Elementary-School-205065852892284/
Twitter: @Mrs_Henk