Rose-y Readers
Washington Rose English Language Arts-January 2013
**REMINDERS**
Grades K-2
DIBELS - Results due February 6th
Benchmark Assessment, TBD
Grades 3-5
RRT ELA Book 1, Benchmark Assessment- January 7th
RRT ELA Book 2, Benchmark Assessment-January 8th
ELA Weekly Assessments- every Friday
Project Based Learning Contest- Grades 2-5, due February 6th
Washington Rose Spelling Bee- Grades 2-5, Week of February 11th
ELA Professional Development
January 9th- ELA Weekly Assessments (Iwuoha)
January 16th - Analyzing Student Assessment Data (Iwuoha)
January 30th- Expeditionary Learning Module 1 Training, Grade 4 (BOCES)
January 31st- Expeditionary Learning Module 1 Training, Grade 5 (BOCES)
Resource: Reading Passages
If you are enjoying www.readworks.org and find it useful, you will want to take a look at
Close Reading Strategies
Common Core State Standards push students to tackle rigorous texts. Finding ways for our students to grapple and eventually comprehend these texts is imperative. Below students in Andrew Hossack's 5th grade class use close reading strategies to determine the main idea and important details from a newspaper article about the Seneca people.
Common Core Literacy: Close Reading Strategies with Informational Text
Thinking Maps + Short Response
Parent Night & Little Doctor's Blood Drive
Below are the slides from Parent Night, January 9th. Though Grade 3-5 parents were the target audience for this workshop, all grades can benefit from information in these slides. Additional guidance for parents (English and Spanish) about what their children will be learning and how they can support that learning in grades K-8 can be found at: http://www.cgcs.org/Domain/36