I just heard that tomorrrow in St. Louis is suppose to be 68 degrees and Friday 70! It is hard to think that 2 weeks ago we had a snow day!
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Conversion Chart and Guided Reading
and a bonus: Benchmark Reading Levels and Marking Period Assessments
for 5 months of the year.
I like this conversion chart because it overlaps reading levels with grade levels.
How do I use it you ask? After I have done running records, fluency checks, STAR testing, DRA reading, and Acuity testing (wow) I pretty much know where each of my children belong on the conversion chart and also strategy groups for Guided Reading and Small Group Instruction.
The Eight Components of Guided Reading (2010) align with the key tenets of the Common Core State Standards:
- Complex, high level reading comprehension is the goal of guided reading instruction.
- Guided reading centers on a sequence of high quality texts that support individual progress on a scale of spiraling text difficulty.
- Guided reading lessons increase the volume of independent reading that students do; the goal always is confident, capable independent readers.
- Guided reading provides explicit instruction in accurate, fluent reading.
- Guiding reading lessons provide daily opportunities to expand academic vocabulary through reading, writing, conversation, and explicit instruction.
- Guided reading lessons include teaching that expands students' ability to apply the concepts of print, phonological awareness, access to rich vocabulary, and accurate, fluent reading to the processing of print.
- Guided reading lessons invite students to write about reading.
- Guided reading lessons create engagement in and motivation for reading.
--Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell
This link goes to
Teachers College Reading and Writing Project
Benchmark Reading Levels and Marking Period Assessments
This is a fantastic chart-
I can't post it here, you have to go there!! BUT...
it walks you through where every student should be in
SEPTEMBER, NOVEMBER ,JANUARY, MARCH ,and JUNE
so cool!
For example: In September my 4th Grade students:
1=M or below (avg. J)
2=N/O (avg. N)
3=P/Q (avg. P)
4=R or above
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters:
An African Tale
Manyara and Nyasha are two beautiful daughters, but Manyara is cruel and vain while Nyasha is loving and selfless. One day they learn the king seeks a wife, and though Manyara is determined to be queen, she is revealed to be a selfish person, while Nyasha proves herself worthy of the throne.
I read Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters to my fourth graders not only as a comparison to Cinderella, but also as character studies. They really enjoyed the book; getting into the characters, voicing their opinions as I read, and predicting different scenarios. We talked about kindness and relationships. This was a great lesson!
I put the book into our classroom library and I brought out a puppet I had made of Nyasha. I really thought the kids would make comments that they were too old for puppets-but I noticed that they would lay on their tummy's with pillows and puppet near them, and read to each other! Just proves-you are never to old!
Glue Labels
Does this drive any other teacher crazy...at the end of the day you go over and see glue bottles on their sides with rivers of glue coming out? AHHHHHH! That's it! I made these and explained to the kids MY problem---wasted glue and neatness-and they have taken it seriously! Anytime of the day you will always see our glue bottles up and glue stick caps attached! I love my kids!
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