Norms for today’s PD

1. Norms for today’s PD • Participate • Cell Phone • Side-bar conversations

2. Robertson County Middle School Reading Block Jennie Justice, Middle School Reading Coordinator Jennie.justice@rcstn.net

3. Comprehension • Five Days a Week • 30 Minutes • 1/3 Literature (basal, novel, book clubs), 2/3 Content text (nonfiction material such as social studies or science materials, book clubs, poetry) • Teach Comprehension Strategies through this block. • Provide a variety of before, during and after reading strategies. • Arrange flexible and purposeful groups especially for the “during-reading phase” of the block. • Work to embed grammar SPI’s whenever possible.

4. Comprehension Anchor Charts

5. Working with Words • 15-20 minutes five days a week. • Word Walls • Greek-Latin Words • Prefixes-Suffixes p. 195 • Spelling patterns, high frequency words p. 192-194 • Tennessee Academic Vocabulary http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/ • 12 Powerful Words http://sbcusd.k12.ca.us/index.aspx?nid=4652

6. Word Walls

7. Writing • 25 minutes daily • **Teach grammar SPI’s • 1. Mini-lesson on grammar lesson from pacing guide (10-15min.) This can be used as a bell-ringer, etc • 2. Student choice (journal writing) or focused writing (prompt writing) • 3. Conferencing regarding writing (during SSR) • 4. Sharing of writing (optional)

8. SSR/Data • 15 to 20 minutes DAILY • READ ALOUDS from different genres, topics, authors (5-8min.) • Student-selected reading • Goal Setting for books?? • Reading log p.37-41 • Conferencing-REQUIRED refer to page 35-36 • DATA SHARING • STAR, Thinklink, common assessments, TCAP, mock writing, etc.

9. Classroom Libraries http://swap4schools.swap.com/ http://classroom.booksource.com/

10. Classroom Libraries Plastic Gutters

11. SSR/DATA Pictures Genre List Response Log

12. SSR/DATA

13. Jennie’s Podcast Information • Please refer to your handout with directions to my podcast. • http://podcast.rcstn.net/rla

14. Books worth reading