1. Welcome!

2. Agenda Reading Program Elements What you can expect from instruction ?
How do program elements support writing ?
Mathematics
Shifts in questioning and application
Extending Mathematics at home
DIBELS
What is DIBELS ?
What can I expect throughout the year ?
Agenda

3. Leveled Readers (Journeys)
The use of leveled readers allows the classroom teacher to deliver differentiated reading exposure and practice to students without the need for differing texts.
All students read content relative to the same theme, skills, and essential questions, and are led through comprehension tasks- the reading level is simply adjusted to appropriately meet the needs of the students
Should be done in small groups, with support
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6. Whole Group Instruction (Wonders)
Typically used as a first-read and/or last-read
Allows for analyzing story elements and text features together, in a large group, with technology or audio assistance
Benefits independent readers or readers needing support
Provides students with varied genres: expository text, fables or legends, poetry, narrative, etc.
Valuable character analysis, vocabulary capture, and evidence capture for comprehension
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9. Connecting Across Texts (Reach For Reading)
Valuable skill for comprehension and analysis
Shifts in testing represent the need to develop this skill, becoming a true measure of a reader’s understanding by identifying essential content and connecting it to similar elements from a different source
Non-fiction, Fiction, news articles, and poems- all compared to and against each other in a variety of ways
Evidence capture, identifying text structures and comparing vocabulary need to be part of each students’ “toolbox”
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11. EnVision Mathematics
Focused on student engagement, perseverance in problem solving, practical applications, part-to-whole relationships, and modeling/explaining thinking
Provides comprehensive program: whole class, small group, intervention, center-based

12. Sample Lesson Structure- EnVision Math
Problem-based interaction (focuses students on the skill they’ll need to use for this lesson)
Lesson modeling and guided practice
Independent practice
Student breakout- intervention, enrichment, student centers
Close with recap, review, or quick-check
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13. Problem Solving Performance Tasks
Gives a glimpse at many of the skills and considerations in place for activities throughout the lesson (independent word problem attack, “pose the problem”, or Enrichment activities)
Affirms student knowledge in many modes
Performance Tasks
Represent the shift in what students are required to produce for modern assessments
Standalone problems and multiple choice are gone-
Replaced by progressive problem-solving and explanations of student reasoning

15. Modeling Mathematics
Elementary math shift, connecting part/whole relationships to basic operations (add, subt, mult, div)
Confirms student knowledge of concepts, seen often in testing
Example - Total Amount Unknown
Kim has 23 antique dolls. Her Father gives her 18 more antique dolls. Now how many antique dolls does she have?
???
Number Sentence: = ???
How many dolls does she have? 23 18

16. DIBELS
What is it? Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills- DIBELS
Used as baseline measure in Sept, tested again in January and May
Used in many districts throughout the country

17. Oral Reading Fluency (ORF)
Measures speed and accuracy within a prompt
Timed (one minute)
Words read per minute, not counting errors
Just one measure, progress is monitored frequently by classroom teachers, reading specialists, and Title-1 tutors throughout the year

19. Home/School Connections
Articles/Playbooks for helping students learn at home and resources for parents
Topic overviews, make & take, and insight into the upcoming topic.
Provides an activity for home that students can participate in
Available on our BBES website for all topics, sent home by classroom teachers as well