2. Successes
Vertical teaming
What is going on in K and 2
Unit/Standards Alignment
“Look Fors”
Assessments
Planning Guide and Work Session
Next Steps-January Session
Q & A
3. What is going well in your classroom?
Specific lesson types that are going well?
Stories of Student learning successes?
4. Kindergarten
› Sound Pronunciation-foundation for students
learning sounds to begin blending and then
eventually becoming ready for decodable
readers
Second
› Writing-Much more writing incorporated into
lessons. Literacy/GRIAR Centers, Spelling
Trees and activities used to reinforce writing
and skills.
5. Engageny.org
Core Knowledge
Handout-Standards addressed in Unit 2
and Unit 3-Student Learning Targets
designed around these standards
6. Unit by unit-what are some key
components to recognize in Unit 2?
› Lesson types? (Tricky word)
› Assessments? Formative and Summative
› Pausing Points?
› Activities (Chaining, word sort, Wiggle cards
pg 123)
› School-Home Connections
7. Unit by unit-what are some key
components to recognize in Unit 3?
› Lesson types (Tricky Words, Tricky Spelling)
› Assessments? Formatives and Summative
› Pausing Points
› Activities (Writing-Fictional
narrative, Chaining, Wiggle Cards-pg 141)
› School-Home Connections
8. What assessments are in these units?
Unit 2:
› Word Recognition Assessment-WS 18.1
Unit 3:
› Spelling Assessment, lesson 5,-WS 5.1
› Spelling Assessment, lesson 10,-WS 10.1
› Spelling Assessment, lesson 15-WS 15.1
› Word Recognition, lesson 19-WS 19.1
9. Unit 2
GRIAR Time, interventions, CKLA Centers
› Pg 109-111.
› Directions where to find information for identified
deficit areas and opportunities to reteach
material
Unit 3
GRIAR Time, interventions, CKLA Centers
› Pg 132-134.
› Directions where to find information for identified
deficit areas and opportunities to reteach
material
10. How do you plan for your lessons?
› Different lesson plan formats
› Team planning?
11. Work with each other to plan out some
lessons
› See connections from one lesson to the next
› Split the work and share out with group
› Make resources needed for lessons (ie.
wiggle cards)
12. Session in January
› What would you like to see differently? More
of?
› Any suggestions, recommendations?
13. Any questions you have regarding Skills
Strand?
› If I do not know it, I will write it down and ask our
directors of ELA and get the answers to you.
CKLA Office hours-one hour once a
month, webinar offered from representative
from Core Knowledge on updates and
answering any questions you have about
the Skills and Listening an Learning Strand.