11.23.10

All present:  Facilitator: Tara Liston, Time Keeper:  Karol Ackerman  Blogger:  Sue Graham


 Visual  Phonics:  Karol and Jamie have begun a sound wall and shared how they developed it and how they are using it in instruction.  Tara is making plans to implement this in her classroom.  Will continue to implement visual phonics and keep learning.  We are integrating Visual Phonics with the new Intervention Kit.

Intervention Kit:  Discussed how we are using the intervention kit with our lowest achieving readers.  Seeing positive affects from the extra interventions these students are receiving.  Discussed how to manage these specific students (group size, reading levels, etc.)

Discussed Title 1 students and made plans to regroup them according to intervention needs.

Reading Strategies:
Metacognition - Discussed the "mixed/tossed salad" strategy from the book, "Comprehension Connections."  Next step is to model the new graphic organizer from the book.  The thought bubble has been made, but we're not to that step yet.  In the future, Sue will share Write to Learn strategies that can be used in the 1st grade classroom. 

We feel that we are moving forward in comprehension instruction in the 1st grade classroom.  We do realize we have a lot of new learning that we plan to implement, and we will make sure to learn and implement at a manageable pace.

Will keep same jobs for next time.