CPUMS
Week of May 16
PRESS training-Reading interventions
Why work on fluency? It is a necessary stepping stone to comprehension, there is a high correlation between fluency and comprehension. Children usually cannot comprehend if they cannot read fluently.
Why work on vocabulary? Vocabulary is crucial for getting meaning from a written or oral text. Without knowledge of key vocabulary in a text, a learner my have serious trouble understanding the message.
Why work on comprehension? Comprehending text is a complex and dynamic task. Regarded as “the essence of reading”
PRESS training
Interesting ideas from the training.
Data is not the destination, it is the journey.
It has become self-evident that schools in which faculty members feel a collected responsibility for student learning produce greater gains than do schools in which teachers work as isolated practitioners.
Teaching is the constant in classrooms; learning is the variable. Learning should be the constant; teaching the variable.
Setting up partners:Ordering your class list from highest to lowest, split your list in half and put the top reader with the top reader in the second half of the class.
Calendar
Monday 5/16/16
- Egypt in 6th grade
Tuesday, 5/17/16
- Star testing-6th grade
Wednesday, 5/18/16
- Late Start-7:30 Data Teams
- Meeting with GWAEA-literacy-AM
- Working with students and teachers
- Out of building AM
- Working with students and teachers
Friday, 5/20/16
- Planning HS-AM
- Meeting with ICs-PM
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