Reading Academy Pt. 2

The district continues to support three basic reading programs:

• Six Minute Solution (which increases fluency). They are now recommending students A read twice then B takes his turn for two reads. Other ideas:
• Summary of passage at day 1
• Preview of challenge words (students list words over 8 letters long) day 1 also
• Continued recommendation the Six Minute be used as starter three days per week
• Rewards (Decoding for 1st 12 lessons, Fluency and Comprehension Lesson 13-20)
• They recommend this be broken down to two twenty minute lessons.
• There is also a Rewards Science and a Rewards Social Studies *need to order!
• Sticky notes - let the kids use them to make notes (partner/group work). Lets you see that they're on task.
• Signature Reading
• Consider adjusting the results graph to two columns: 1st column for personal score, 2nd column for Vocabulary, Strategy and Comprehension scores ***
• Can I create a presentation project from these articles?
• Barnes & Noble has classics that are lexiled at 4th grade level
• Try to include a writing prompt with each activity 

Aims Web -

• User name first.last (password was emailed within the past 24 hours)
• Individual progress monitoring schedules included on site (district testing team will complete benchmark testing)
• Choose your students, list, and you'll be able to access all scores for that student
• Choose monitoring schedule (weekly, monthly, quarterly)
• SLA - Survey Level Assessment
• Recommended Instructional level is based on 25% to 50% level
• Reports 
• If students leave, please transfer data to either new school or District pool *
• Piper is available for F2F instruction on how to use Aimsweb
• Wait until after testing team has been to your school

NEXT DEVELOPMENT - PEER COACHING

• Hoping to use "flip" cameras to record classroom presentations
• Peer coach will be assigned to provide feedback
• Observation should happen at least once per quarter
• Stipend available!!!
• My choices: Katrina Tuckfield (she's already a member of my new date team and will be using Corrective Reading) and Eva Bellistan (eva.bellistan@canyonsdistrict.org) who is developing relay games.
• Evaluation form needs to be submitted. 
• Observations need to go at least 15 to 20 minutes.
• Because of the short observation period, recommended pre-conference be very specific for goals of observation
• Video tapes are available if F2F observations are not possible