Today we launched our literacy kick-off for our Prep Kindergarten-5th grade! Our school district is in the beginning stages of revising and renewing our balanced literacy programs and aligning this with the Iowa Core and making sure we are teaching 21st century skills.
Our first goal this academic year is to improve our independent reading piece, bringing back our own personal love of reading and sharing this love with our students. We want to create students who CAN read, WANT to read and CHOOSE to read. A second goal is reviewing all of the comprehension strategies and making sure these skills are explicitly taught and modeled.
A few highlights:
- Awakening our inner reader & helping our students find the joy in reading: The Book Whisperer, Donalyn Miller
- Leveling & organizing the classroom library (our summertime project)
- Procedures and routines to help build reading stamina
- Scheduling time into the daily schedule-what can we give up
- What is the latest research regarding independent reading
- Fountas & Pinnell Assessment Benchmark Kits- how will we assess
Together we are going to take small steps (some might say giant leaps)
to strengthen and bring our literacy programs into the 21st century. I know we will have many moments of great success and times of stress and frustration BUT what is so awesome about our group of teachers is that we are all ready to face this challenge together.
Happy Reading!! Ronna
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