Kindergarten skills strand -units 9 &10

Kindergarten Skills Strand--Units 9 &10Ready to Bloom

Agenda

• Celebrations

• Updates

• Unit 9 and 10 overview

• Assessment

• GRAIR

• A&R guide

• Worktime

Where Are We Now?

• Turn and Talk to discuss the following:• 3 Student Celebrations

• Pacing--Pacing Guide

• GRAIR time—when in your schedule? What types of activities do you use?

• A&R Guide—have you used this guide at all? If so, when and how has it been beneficial to your students?

• Please share out with whole group

Instructional Path Updates

• K Instructional Path Document• Importance of Unit 8 End of Unit Assessment—review flow

chart

• Units 9 and 10— “Big Picture” and relation to beginning of First Grade

• Extra Support/On Level/Enrichment

Unit 9---Noticings• Take a minute to read and highlight overview

• Tricky Words—17 new and taught

• 2 parts to Warm Up

• Reading Format—what have you found success with? Choral reading, partner reading, read-aloud for struggling readers?—Unit 9—no longer presented as a demonstration first

• Group 1 and Group 2 work time

• Uppercase letter practice

• Story Questions

• Only learned 5 of 18 vowel sounds (still accept plausible spellings without correction)

• Some worksheets will have decodable directions for students

• Individual Performance Task assessment –5 sentences with Tricky Words

A Note on Tricky Words

• What are Tricky Words in the CKLA program?

• Example/Model CKLA model• Tricky Word— “from”

• Important elements:• Begin by identifying which parts of the work students can depend

on

• Identify which parts of the word students must memorize—this part makes the word “tricky”

• “Some words have a part that must be learned by heart.”

• Tricky Word List

Unit 10--Noticings

• 2 syllable oral segmentation technique

• Long vowels introduce—cute, tone—two letters can work together even if they are separated, students may need modeling to begin scanning the entire word and begin back to the

• Magic ‘e’—routine

• Reading behaviors—punctuation marks, model blending, take anecdotal records (sheet provided)

End of Year Assessment

• Some parts Administered individually

• Lesson 26—Unit 10

• Over the course of 4 days-• 1. Word Reading

• 2. Sound Writing

• 3. Letter Sounds (individual)

• 4. Optional—lowercase letter writing, • uppercase letter identification

Guided Reading and Accountable Independent Reading

• 30 minute portion of ELA block designed for:

• Guided Reading

• activities that will encourage fluency development in Kindergarten• Partner reading, simple book talks, etc.

• Listening center

• Lexia, RAZ kids, Tumblebooks

Assessment and Remediation Guide

• One for each unit—allows for tiering and support with adjustable assignments, use during intervention blocks, activities to support GRAIR time

• Progress monitoring—embedded within A&R guide and specific to isolated sounds, spelling patterns, etc.

• Take some time to review during our planning session on e-learning or engageny

Work Time

• Use of Common Core Planning Guide• Planning Guide

• Use of Screening Tool• Screening Tool

• GRAIR plan with data in mind

• A&R use during intervention,

Small group, GRAIR, etc

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