ARC Notes
October 21, 2018
Three Questions Your Students Should Be Able to Answer
2. What is your power goal?
3. How do you practice your power goal?
On Target for IRLA Reading Level
At this point in the year, our students should be at these points:
K-.10
1st-1.10
2nd-2.10
3rd-3.10
4th-4.10
HES creates readers!
On Target for Reading Practice
ARC Swimming Pool
Steps calendar for this month
ARC Focus of the Week
Turn Around Tuesday
Great Idea!
Teach the Teacher
Something to think about!
REWARDS FOR READING
Most kids loved stories when they were little, but as they grew up and learned to read the joy and pleasure of the story may have become buried under the stress, or shame, or frustration of reading. When working to build readers back up, Goldberg says she doesn’t recommend external reading rewards. Pizza parties and extra recess for reading send the message that reading is work, not play.
Adults don’t read because someone will give them a pizza party. They read because they get invested in characters, or they want to understand something better, or they want to be able to talk about a book everyone is reading. Reading for children shouldn’t be so different. If rewards are already in place, Goldberg suggests using reading-focused rewards when kids reach their goals. Maybe that means ten extra minutes of reading time or a trip to the bookstore or library where the child can pick out anything he or she wants.
Teachers like Rejent and Cordello using some of the strategies Goldberg recommends say they’ve seen huge shifts in the ownership students have over reading. “I actually saw kids get enthusiastic and engaged with reading for the length of the year,” Cordello said. Before, they were just doing what they were told because it was a school subject. Now they argue over whether they’d rather have a read aloud or independent reading time.
From the article Four Teaching Moves That Promote a Growth Mindset in All Readers by Katrina Schwartz
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
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
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