Evansdale Eagles
Week of May 8-13
Need to Know....
- Please make sure students are focused on instruction. MAP determines gifted and EIP qualification so it is very important students do their very best.
- Please make sure you are entering grades in weekly.
- I know everyone is getting very excited about next year and some of you will be moving classrooms. Please be considerate of others as you start to transition. Some people have not been told where they will be going or if they are moving. Please get approval from administration before you start to move your things.
Staff Shout Outs
- Thank you to Mr. Murphy, Ms. Craddock, Ms. Bachman, Ms. Pitts and family, Rae Pitts, Ms. Thatcher and family, Mr. Patin and family, Mr. Russell, Ms. Datta, Mr. Harper, Ms. Anderson, Ms. Kim and Ms. Defrancis for coming to the Fun Run. I think the admin team won! We will putting a pie in Ms. Bradley's face!
- Thank you to Mr. Clayton and everyone for all of their hard work during testing! I'm very excited to see the scores.
Week of May 8-13
Monday, 5/8
- MAP
- Niko, the therapy dog, is visiting
Tuesday, 5/9
- MAP
- Kindergarten registration 9-12
- CFC soccer 2:45
- Zumba-6:30 (free to all staff members)
- MAP
- TOTY and ESPOTY celebration 3PM-cafeteria
- MAP
- 3rd grade Trees Atlanta
- 3rd grade FI wax museum
- Zumba-6:30 (free for all staff members)
- Jazz Assembly 8-9
- Zumba-9:30 (free for all staff members)
Online Tools to Scaffold Work for Struggling Readers and Writers
In this Edutopia article, Todd Finley suggests ways to address the challenge of a wide range of achievement levels by differentiating, providing choice, baking assessments into every lesson, and providing scaffolding for reading and writing. Here are some tech tools for the last item: * Rewordify https://rewordify.com - A text compactor that simplifies and shortens readings; * Newsela https://newsela.com - Articles on current topics can be adjusted to five different Lexile levels by sliding a bar on the right, includes comprehension questions; * Tween Tribune from the Smithsonian http://www.tweentribune.com - Similar to Newsela, adjustable to four Lexile levels, with audio versions for additional support; * Comprehension Bookmarks http://www.ccsoh.us/Downloads/Reading%20Processes.pdf for readers who are struggling with a complex text;
* For academic writing, here’s a word bank of transitions: http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Transitions.html; an essay structure graphic: http://images.slideplayer.com/18/5709021/slides/slide_8.jpg; and sentence frames http://www.ouhsd.k12.ca.us/wp-content/uploads/docs/migrant_el-17.pdf.
“Teaching a Class with Big Ability Differences” by Todd Finley in Edutopia, April 13, 2017, https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-class-big-ability-differences-todd-finley