*Comprehension Connection book- discussed what we are teaching out of it and how other grades are using it as well. Next year we are wanting to start using metacognition earlier in the year and the rest of the book. Using this book we have been pleased with the affects so far.
*Guided Reading: We really want to attempt to divide our students into reading groups next year. If we had our schedules early enough in the summer we would be able to decide when we all could have guided reading. We our now discussing maybe just combining for our higher flyers and lower students so that we had more then one or two students in a group at a time. We'd like to really consider these options and decide which is the best way to go.
Also, discussed Daily 5 and Cafe. We are wanting to decide the best way to integrate this into our classrooms as well. Sue and Tara will be taking the class this summer, Karol and Jamie have already done so.
*Phonics: We will continue to use Visual Phonics. We know that they are using them in Kindergarten and hopefully next year will then be a review.
We feel as though we've had a great year and accomplished a lot with excellent discussions!
