ARC Notes
November 4, 2018
Three Questions Your Students Should Be Able to Answer
1. What are you reading that you love?
2. What is your power goal?
3. How do you practice your power goal?
What are YOU reading?
To develop a culture of reading in our school we must all talk about what we are reading. How powerful would it be if every child heard us all talking enthusiastically about what we are reading!
This is what I am reading!
A quote from the book that caused me to think:
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
-Mark Twain
On Target for IRLA Reading Level
Our goal is for every child to show at least a year of growth this school year.
At this point in the year, our students should be at these points:
K-.20
1st-1.20
2nd-2.20
3rd-3.20
4th-4.20
HES creates readers!
1hour of reading each day equals more than 2.66 years of growth without any other interventions.
On Target for Reading Practice
We no longer have 100% of our students on target for their reading steps. We need to think about what we need to do to have 100% of our students on target. Contact parents? Have reading time first thing in the morning? Partner with another grade level and have the students read together? Let's think about how we can overcome obstacles. It is not really about steps, it is ALL about the engaged reading practice.
ARC Swimming Pool
Steps calendar for this month
ARC Focus of the Week
- All students should have reader and writer engagement scores entered into School Pace
- Reading steps need to be entered daily.
- Every child should be conferenced with at least one time every 10 days. Students in emergency must be met with more frequently.
Turnaround Tuesday
Our next Turn Around Tuesday will be Tuesday, November 6. Please count the books in each of the book bins and place a sticky note with the number on top. Books should be in the bookroom by 8:30 am. Please complete the book request form that was included in your initial book delivery and place it in the clear plastic folder near the light switch.
Teach the Teacher
What does this remind you of?
Let the Kids Talk – We don’t often equate talking with literacy, but reading is an incredibly social skill, and when we let our kids talk about their reading, their excitement builds. Rachel Prater, along with the entire first-grade team at Mitchell-Neilson, leads her students in “text talks,” when they share a book and then talk through the text together. When it comes to creating a culture of literacy, giving students time to talk about reading gives them the opportunity to share book recommendations, explore themes and ideas in what they’ve read, and establish important reading relationships with their peers.
Accountable talk!
Read this article for more great ways to build a culture of reading.
Great Idea!
Mrs. Hawley has a great idea for setting the focus of her lessons. First, she includes a sentence about what the students will be learning in her morning message. Then she and her students discuss how they will know when they have met the target learning for the day. Finally, she writes an I Can statement on this board which she and the students read chorally. Her students certainly understand the target learning of the lesson. Great idea, Mrs. Hawley!
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
We are creating students who are lifelong readers!
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
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Hardy-Elementary-School-205065852892284/
Twitter: @Mrs_Henk