Colleen Stefani

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Welcome to Open House 2011-2012

• Colleen Stefani
• 493-8145
• cstefani_at_lisle202.org

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Communication

• Weekly- Keeping In Touch-should come home on
  Mondays
• Reading Total Update Every Monday! ?
• Daily- Assignment Notebooks and Take Home Folders
• Ms. McTighe and I sign the students out each
  day.
• Homework only should be listed.
• Wednesdays- Dr. Kotaliks newsletter, LEHSO
  information, etc.
• SOCS- online website www.lisle202.org

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Tour of Your Desk

• Parent/ Student Handbook
• Please sign and return- Thank You!
• Letter from your child
• Form for you to respond
• 4th Grade Information Packet

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Reading Assessments

• MAP
• STAR Test- AR Levels (see packet)
• AIMS Web Fluency Test
• Reading Levels
• Independent Level
• Self selected books
• Accelerated Reader
• Instructional Level
• Guided Reading
• Frustration Level
• Use the 5 Finger Test to avoid this
  level.
• All of these assessments give me information that
  helps create and adjust our guided reading groups.

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Literacy Block

• Word Work
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading
• IDR (Independent Daily Reading)
• Writing

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Word Work

• Content Vocabulary
• Vocabulary embedded in literature
• Spelling lists focused on common core standards
• Roots and affixes

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Shared Reading

• Program called Making Meaning
• Builds a community of readers
• Frequent opportunities for students to discuss
  ideas about what they are reading with other
  students

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Guided Reading
Time A B C D
200-215 Group IDR IDR Reading Response
215-230 IDR Group IDR
230-245 IDR Group
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Writing

• Writing Prompts
• 61 Writing Traits
• Many opportunities to respond to reading in
  writing
• Curriculum embedded writing assignments

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Reading Every Day is the Key!

• How do you get better at reading?
• It boils down to a simple, two-part formula
• The more you read, the better you get at it the
  better you get at it, the more you like it and
  the more you like it, the more you do it.
• And the more you read, the more you know and the
  more you know, the smarter you grow.
• -Jim Trelease
• 30 minutes of SSR here at school
• 15 minutes of reading at home- Thank You!

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Thank you for coming!
I look forward to a wonderful year with your
children!
Please be sure to sign up in the hallway for
volunteer possibilities if your are interested!