Kimbrell's Korner
May 10, 2019
ELAR
Guided Reading Books:
Please make sure that your guided reading books are turned in no later than May 17th.
EOY Reading Assessments are open.
Like the MOY assessments, teachers will enter the instructional reading level for each student at the end of the year. Students will receive a face-to-face DRA and teachers will enter their scores for each part of the DRA Continuum. Teachers will indicate if a student has received LLI this year. LLI Intervention Records should continue to be uploaded with each student’s SST Information.
A PAPI assessment will be administered to ALL K & 1 students. PAPI scores will be available in Aware as a separate Student Inventory called “18-19 (Grade Level) PAPI” beginning May 1. The PAPI assessment is loaded on the Assessment Page of the GPS. Please keep a copy in the student’s Yellow Folder with EOY Writing Samples.
Word Wall Words will be changing next year. K-2 will use Lucy Phonics snap words. 2-5 will have high utility and fewer words. You do not need to keep your old words. We will have guidance about what and when to add the new words. The words will be at the print shop before the next school year. Please let me know if you have any questions.
MATH
NEW ITEM - Check out this great learning opportunity... Graham Fletcher hosted a webinar centered around “Demystifying the Fraction Rules WeTeach” and it had a ton of great information about teaching fractions. This webinar link is good until May 20. To access the downloads Graham mentioned in the webinar go here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1pHDgZvoKvTT5MsTFpQE6SdbDVuvUgxMF?usp=sharing
2019 Teacher Institutes: Improving Instruction through Assessment
TEA is now accepting applications for 2019 Teacher Institutes in mathematics, reading/language arts, science, and social studies. The summer institutes provide professional development aimed at building assessment literacy and understanding of the alignment of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR®) program with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS). Highly qualified Texas teachers and curriculum experts with current experience in the following grade levels and subjects are encouraged to apply.
English language arts and reading for grades 3–8 and English I and II
Mathematics for grades 3–8 and Algebra I
Science for grades 5 and 8 and Biology
Social studies for grade 8 and U.S. History Studies
Spanish language arts and reading for grades 3–5
SCIENCE
ADI training sessions for all 4th grade teachers of science and new to teaching 5th grade are available to sign up through eduphoria workshop.
4th grade ADI June 10, 26 or July 31
5th grade ADI July 30
New to teaching K-5 science trainings are available for sign up though eduphoria workshop.
New to teaching science K-5 August 27 or 29