MISD ELAR Knowledge Can Take You Anywhere You Want to Go!

MISD ELARKnowledge Can Take You Anywhere You Want to Go!


MISD ELARData to Drive Instruction

Lowest Performing SEs:

1.RC1: Vocabulary2.RC2: Poetry3.RC3: Expository

Let’s Look Back...

Data: istation

Data: istation

Data: STAAR

gradegrade level 2 sat.level 2 sat. level 2 rec.level 2 rec.

3rd grade Reading

201285% 50%

4th grade Reading

201287% 57%

5th grade Reading

201286% 54%

4th grade Writing2012

83% 46%

gradegrade level 2 sat.level 2 sat. level 2 rec.level 2 rec.

3rd grade Reading

201387% 54%

4th grade Reading

201381% 52%

5th grade Reading

201387% 56%

4th grade Writing2013

80% 44%

Data: STAAR Reading

RC1RC1 RC2RC2 RC3RC3

3rd 76% 69% 70%

4th 77% 71% 70%

5th 78% 72% 70%

Data: STAAR Writing

Let’s Look Forward...

Based upon our data, what have we done to support teachers/ students?

•IFDs- for reading units

•Quick Checks for each Genre

•Professional Development

On ComprehensionWhat does it mean to understand? Too often, we think of comprehension as: Answering questionsRetellingTeaching Comprehension Strategies

Is this definition worthy of our students’ intellectual capacity? Are we teaching comprehension or are we testing comprehension? What does it mean to understand deeply? What are the indicators that we understand deeply? Rubric Discussion-

On One Pagers

•The grammar / editing of the 4th grade writing test weighs 60% of the STAAR test.

•We have an increased focus on this for K-5 in the word work matrix.

•We need to expect greater levels of accountability here!

Just In Time PD

•Spalding Spelling Sept. 16 & 19

•PP Meetings Sept. 17- 30

•Empowering Writers k/1Sept. 26

•Lexia TBD

•Writing Training – 4th TBD

Check It

•The Vocabulary by Genre Quick Check should have already been given.

•Once we have taught a skill/ group of skills (by genre) a quick check should be given.

ELAR Thoughts on Forethought

1. There is a reading & writing lesson for each day.

2. More specificity in Forethought.

3. IFDs are a work in progress.4. All ancillary items should be

linked to the lesson.5. The MISD ELAR wiki houses

many resources – videos (etc.)

ELAR IFDsInstructional Focus Documents

* We will have an IFD for each unit!

ELAR VAD

ELAR wikis

MISD ELARA Focus on Figure 19:

•In grades 3-5 we have frontloaded all of the figure 19 comprehension strategies in Q1.

•In K-2 we spiral these throughout the year.

•We have a rubric to support the highest development of these critical reading skills.

MISD ELARUpcoming News for Point People:

1.Looking forward to Q2 curriculum.2.Expectations for:

istationspalding/ grammar/ wwwriting plans – the write

sourcefigure 19 rubric for K-5Quick ChecksELLs

MISD ELAR

•Campus meetings for goal setting…

•Workshop model walkthroughs

•Increased accountability for student learning

•I will update you again after CREST

•What questions still exist?


Lynda SwannerElementary ELAR

Coordinator

[email protected]

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