Today in our weekly teacher meetings we went over quotes from Richard Allington’s What Really Matters for Struggling Readers. This chapter discussed the amount of time that students should spend each day actually reading instead of doing worksheets, procedural things, etc.
Our family literacy night will be Tuesday, February 13th. We will be having a hot dog, chip and soda dinner. We will also have classrooms open for students to read and take AR tests. The book fair will also be open for browsing or purchases.
We will be having a meeting after school on February 13th to discuss strategies for working with students at risk and vocabulary.
Today in our weekly meetings we discussed information from the South Eastern Regional Reading Recovery Conference. This included Five Missing Pillars of Scientific Reading Instruction and The Six Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction. If you cannot get these links to come up on your computer come to me and I will get you a copy. For other notes from the conference click here.
I will be out for the SERRRA Conference January 10-12th.
No weekly PD meeting, I will be testing reading recovery students today.