https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf by Rachel Naraine en-us 2018-10-26 03:53:23 UTC 2025-04-09 15:47:44 UTC hello@padlet.com rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256631 Literacy is being incorporated into most of the day. In the morning, students do an approach called Wonders ELA. This is one of the textbook programs that helps teach vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and stories. They also have guided reading ELA centers in the morning, which are small groups that alternate every fifteen minutes. My cooperating teacher teaches one of the stations, while the others are self-sufficient for the students to do independently or with their group. In the afternoon, she teaches writer's workshop, but does not always have time to teach this everyday. ]]> 2018-10-26 03:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256631 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256687 The students use Portland's writer's workshop, which is very similar to Lucy Calkin's and uses strategies that reflect the Next Generation Learning Standards. While I was there, they learned about strategies including summarize, cause and effect, rereading, adding specific/descriptive details, and focusing on important details of a story using anchor texts or writing in their journals independently.]]> 2018-10-26 03:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256687 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256718 My cooperating teacher has nineteen students with her being the only teacher in the room. Some of her students get pulled out in the morning for extra support, so she does not always have nineteen.]]> 2018-10-26 03:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256718 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256764 The school typically pulls out students who need further support in literacy and in math. They have two math specialists and one literacy specialist. They call the pull out programs AIS classes, Academic Intervention Support, which are math and literacy support. There is also a STEAM teacher, who teaches science, technology, engineering, art, and math, and tries to sometimes check in on classrooms and push in to assist students who need support in these areas. They arereally focused on tier 2 of RTI. ]]> 2018-10-26 03:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256764 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256799 The teacher has ability grouping for literacy, so she can support learners of similar levels in each group. Her math groups, however, are mixed in levels, because she can only focus on one center during this time. She mentioned that this way, higher achieving math students can support lower achieving math students while she is not there. She has ELA centers as well, but there are less students involved because they are pulled out for AIS during this time, so its easier for the teacher to be focused all of them.]]> 2018-10-26 03:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256799 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256822 Kindergarten through second grade at the elementary school uses Lucy Calkins writer's workshop. However, for fourth grade, my practicum teacher and the other fourth grade teachers use an approach called Portland. This approach is similar to Lucy Calkins, but is less wordy and structured than Lucy's approach. They also use the Wonders ELA texts in the morning.]]> 2018-10-26 03:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256822 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256851 My teacher has a classroom library filled with a range of different books. They are organized by guided reading level. Each student is allowed to pick three books of their interest or choice, and she gives several books for their instructional guided reading to put into the students' own individual book bins (shown below). The books have fountas and pinnel reading levels. She also has a second section of her classroom library with books labeled by the author. She also mentioned that if she needed more books, or multiple copies of one book for the class, there is a book room in the elementary school where she can get them from.]]> 2018-10-26 03:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256851 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256864 The elementary school uses Wonders ELA assessments from first to fifth grade. There are also weekly and unit exams. My cooperating teacher says she does not give spelling tests. She also uses technological assessments; the students use websites called razkids and readworks where they also get quizzed, and the quizzes get emailed straight to the teacher]]> 2018-10-26 03:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256864 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256875 In the classroom, she has a focus wall that described the literacy content the students would be learning that day. My cooperating teacher really focuses on comprehension. She used the terms, publishing, summarizing, main topics, narrative non fiction, cause and effect, reread and context clues.]]> 2018-10-26 03:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297256875 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297259115 My cooperating teacher uses websites called razkids and readworks where students play fun literacy games and quiz themselves them on their learning. She also has a focus wall in her classroom that explains the literacy content they will be learning that day or week. She sometimes uses anchor charts, but mostly has the students collaborating or writing in their individual journals for whole group lessons.]]> 2018-10-26 04:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/297259115 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/310696460 2018-12-03 23:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/310696460 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/311184003 2018-12-05 00:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/311184003 rbn21 https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/311197207 Sample of a Wonders Assessment from the Wonders ELA book the students use in the morning]]> 2018-12-05 01:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rbn21/vzx6llpbnxkf/wish/311197207