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What info. would you add? What info. would you delete? Were parents ever asked to offer their insights?

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Wondrous to see how you carefully analyzed these on-going assessments.  Both fiction and nonfiction are key, unique types of texts.
Fresh reads = Cold reads = students have not seen these texts before?
Were you able to ask your teachers about their insights into these assessments? Pros and cons?

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Kevin,
Please be more than a listener.  Please join in these vital conversations.  Pose factual and critical thinking questions.  Let students know you are interested in their reading lives.
Awesome to see how children help each other manage hard words. What a collaborative atmosphere!!!

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Kevin, Book shopping is cool. How would you offer this opportunity in your own classroom someday? Were there many diverse books in these book bins?

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In the picture below some students are reading as a group and some are having a conversation about the books they are reading. When students read at the carpet I would try to stand near the carpet to hear what they are talking about. The students talked about what was happening in their book and would tell stories of similar experiences to each other. Multiple times I heard students helping each other with different words and they made connections to the story they were reading for the week on some occasions. I think having a collaborative reading time is a great thing to incorporate into a classroom because students can learn off from each other. Voluminous, pleasurable reading is key to literacy development – Striving to Thriving (libguide)

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In the Global Read In Gayner and I performed we read Black Jack: The Ballad of Jack Johnson. In this book students learned about the difficult route Jack Johnson took to eventually becoming the first African American Heavyweight Champion. He worked odds and ends type jobs while facing discrimination from his white counterparts who refused to fight him. The students learned about the jobs Jack Johnson performed and drew a picture of what that job might look like. This is curriculum as activity because students are being read a book and are engaging in activities that allow them to question thoughts and ideas. “Interactive read-aloud is the foundation of a community that shares literary understandings through thinking and talking together.”-Fountas and Pinnell

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As part of the leveled reading program students also have short chapter books or non-fiction pieces attached to their letter level. This allows for students to read books outside of fiction and allows for the students to be appropriately challenged with a book at their reading level. The students are learning about different types of books and can start to experience and appreciate different genres and types of text. “Guided reading has shifted the lens in the teaching of reading to a focus on a deeper understanding of how readers build effective processing systems over time and an examination of the critical role of texts and expert teaching in the process.” – Fountas and Pinnell

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Students in Mrs. Davis's Second Grade Class have a leveled reading program. They are tested multiple times each year and assigned a best fit letter for reading. Students go "book shopping" each week at the beginning of the week and select a few books from their best fit level. Students are tested through DRA's as well as dibbles and all play a factor in determining the child's best fit reading letter. Ideally, students end somewhere in the K- M or N range at the end of second grade. This is curriculum as inquiry because students pick which books they want to read each week.

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Below is a Second Grade News Letter the teachers at Sharpsville Elementary send out to the parents every week. They also put a version on their class dojo, this is an app that allows them to stay connected with the parents. The parents can ask questions whenever they arise and open communication is kept between parents and teachers at all times. Effective partnerships are based on mutual trust and respect, and shared responsibility for the education of the children and young people at the school. By sending out the newsletter parents can help children stay on top of their education outside of the classroom. Family-School Community Partnerships Bureau, 2021

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For part of the report card assessment students read two different stories and answered questions about the stories. One was fiction and one was nonfiction. Students also interact in "fresh reads" every week where they answer some multiple choice questions and one or two open ended questions. These test check for comprehension because in order to answer the questions the student had to have comprehended the story. Some of the open ended questions ask them to make inferences or draw their own conclusions, which both can only come from comprehending the story. The pictures below are pictures of the two tests the students took before report cards went home. The fresh reads throughout the grading period were also accumulated into their grade as well as various other writing assignments. Literacy assessment includes more than cognitive activities; it also includes a range of practices and perceptions, including beliefs about literacy, dispositions toward literacy, and self-efficacy regarding literacy. -ncte.org