1. MISD ELAR Knowledge Can Take You Anywhere You Want to Go!

2. MISD ELAR Knowledge Can Take You Anywhere You Want to Go!

3. Data to Drive Instruction MISD ELAR • Lowest Performing SEs: • RC1: Vocabulary • RC2: Poetry • RC3: Expository

4. Let’s Look Back...

5. Data: istation

6. Data: istation

7. Data: STAAR

8. Data: STAAR Reading

9. Data: STAAR Writing

10. Let’s Look Forward... Based upon our data, what have we done to support teachers/ students? • IFDs- for reading units • Quick Checks for each Genre • Professional Development

11. On Comprehension What does it mean to understand? Too often, we think of comprehension as: Answering questions Retelling Teaching Comprehension Strategies Is this definition worthy of our students’ intellectual capacity? Are we teaching comprehension or are we testing comprehension? What does it mean to understand deeply? What are the indicators that we understand deeply? Rubric Discussion-

12. On One Pagers • The grammar / editing of the 4th grade writing test weighs 60% of the STAAR test. • We have an increased focus on this for K-5 in the word work matrix. • We need to expect greater levels of accountability here!

13. Just In Time PD • Spalding Spelling Sept. 16 & 19 • PP Meetings Sept. 17- 30 • Empowering Writers k/1 Sept. 26 • Lexia TBD • Writing Training – 4th TBD

14. Check It • The Vocabulary by Genre Quick Check should have already been given. • Once we have taught a skill/ group of skills (by genre) a quick check should be given.

15. ELAR Thoughts on Forethought • There is a reading & writing lesson for each day. • More specificity in Forethought. • IFDs are a work in progress. • All ancillary items should be linked to the lesson. • The MISD ELAR wiki houses many resources – videos (etc.)

16. * We will have an IFD for each unit! ELAR IFDsInstructional Focus Documents

17. ELAR VAD

18. ELAR wikis

19. MISD ELAR • A Focus on Figure 19: • In grades 3-5 we have frontloaded all of the figure 19 comprehension strategies in Q1. • In K-2 we spiral these throughout the year. • We have a rubric to support the highest development of these critical reading skills.

20. MISD ELAR • Upcoming News for Point People: • Looking forward to Q2 curriculum. • Expectations for: • istation • spalding/ grammar/ ww • writing plans – the write source • figure 19 rubric for K-5 • Quick Checks • ELLs

21. MISD ELAR • Campus meetings for goal setting… • Workshop model walkthroughs • Increased accountability for student learning • I will update you again after CREST • What questions still exist?

22. MISD ELAR Knowledge Can Take You Anywhere You Want to Go! Lynda Swanner Elementary ELAR Coordinator 469.742.3051 lswanner@mckinneyisd.net