https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i This board is designed for educators to collaborate and share strategies that will help urban students reach their reading goals. en-us 2018-05-18 02:07:46 UTC 2025-09-29 15:41:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/261790493 Just trying it out.]]> 2018-05-18 02:27:00 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/261790493 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/261797261 I found this article about adapting your core program to meet the needs of your students. This is what I have been struggling with for the past 5 years. ]]> 2018-05-18 03:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/261797261 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262114933 My school , Golightly Education Center, has a 61% rate of students living in poverty attending school. This issue has , the culture of poverty, in my opinion, has always been a factor in the urban landscape of urban education . Cultural norms can dictate the direction of education in your school in ways that make it difficult to teach students. Qualified teachers are important because teachers who come to urban school districts have very little knowledge on how to relate to their students. I have seen this in action too many times.  ]]> 2018-05-19 16:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262114933 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262118135 Excellent article !! What is the cultural climate in my classroom and how does it affect my students' engagement in reading? I 'm reading this article to see what I might need to change in the Fall 2018. The true goal of reading instruction is reading independence. Author Katie Dickerson has increased student engagement reading by allowing for students to select what they want to read, creating time daily for reading, discussing, and writing about their books. I love that she leads by example and reads with the children . We as teachers never truly understand the impact that we have on some of students and their lives. Her program helps students become better readers by expanding their vocabulary- key for reading fluency.
Dickerson, K. ( Spring 2015). Re imagining Reading : Creating a Classroom Culture that Embraces Independent Choice Reading. www.urbanedjournal.org


]]> 2018-05-19 17:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262118135 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262118885 As a teacher I love the Read Aloud so much that I incorporate it into all my Science and Social Studies lessons at least once a week. It's powerful on many levels because it exposes students to new content and it allows for students to hear what fluent reading sounds like. I have several students who are starved for this because no one reads to them at home. I like to article because it focused on how important that home to school connection is, or should be. This article  also focuses on how important Read Aloud are in developing young eager readers. What I didn't know is that when some children are resistant to the Read Aloud, it's because they know how to read and don't want the interruptions of the class. I have two students just like this. I just made the correlation.
Ledger & Merga. (2018). Australian Journal of Education. Reading Aloud : Children's Attitudes toward being Read to at Home and at School. Volume 43, Issue 3. Article 8 


]]> 2018-05-19 17:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262118885 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262119162 I may rethink the article to review. Assessment scores have an immediate impact on teachers and students. Scores can affect teacher placement and student retention.
The article- Making the Grade in America's Cities-Assessing Student Achievement in Urban Districts , compares and contrasts the achievement gap for students of urban, suburban, and rural school districts across the country. TUDA- Trial Urban District Assessment program measure these three factors when looking at urban schools system and why there is a 20- 25 % performance gap of 4th and 8th grade students. : socio- economics of student population( free lunch ratio is a huge factor), racial /ethnic, and ELL students. I was disheartened to see my district, Detroit Public Schools Community District, has made no strides in taking the NAEP tests for math and reading.
Blagg, K. ( 2016) . Making the Grade in America's Cities: Assessing Students in Urban Districts. Urban Institute . Washington , DC 
www.urban.org

]]> 2018-05-19 17:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262119162 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262119631 Great news! My students finished their final diagnostic reading assessment and 11 of my students are reading proficiently!! I started with only 3 reading proficiently in Fall 2017.The rest have made significant strides throughout the year.. I will attach results when I get to work; can't get report to print or save at home. Check out this program as it relates to the article Computer Based. My computer at home and school keeps saying failed report. I am unable to upload results. I'll keep trying because I'm really proud of my babies!!!!]]> 2018-05-19 17:25:18 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262119631 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262535529  Another article that focuses on the case for culturally relevant material to inspire urban school children to read. I came up without this source material and I still learned how to read. I'll compare this with another article on my padlet that focuses on the same issue. The article discusses an elaborate case study geared to determine how students perceived the material - if the character and situations resemble them and their lives. This a key connection that the stud feels will make the students more responsive to reading.]]> 2018-05-22 00:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262535529 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262536592 Good Evening,
My name is Vicky Lewis and I am a 1st grade teacher in the Detroit Public Schools District. I am focusing on reading strategies that will build fluency for urban children and these are some of the article that I found.  Please review the items with the red heart. Those articles really got me thinking. I deleted other posts to keep within the guidelines of the rubric for the assignment.
Thank you,
Vicky]]> 2018-05-22 00:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/262536592 vickylewis693 https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/263755447 The focus of this piece was using multiple strategies to build both reading fluency and writing coherency. Article definitely shows the connection and when I reflect on my students and their work- fluent readers are both great spellers and excellent writers.]]> 2018-05-26 02:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/vickylewis693/hht7cgi6f27i/wish/263755447