CWF's help the Bats fundraiser

The year's most frightful night is rapidly approaching and CWF is offering you some spooky treats to help celebrate! Need a gift for your favourite goblin? Buy our exclusive CWF biodegradable bat bag! Includes a Wild About Bats poster and information on how to build your very own bat house.

 

Fundraiser

If your school, classroom or community group pledges to help the bats by fundraising for CWF you can get the bags in packs of 10 for a minimum donation of $50.! The group that raises the most money for CWF to help the bats will also win a cool prize. This offer is open to Canadian residents only.

 

https://secure.indas.on.ca/CanadianWildlifeFederation/store/

Classroom based library

Selections in a classroom library should represent the various reading levels of the students in the class, and the level of the book must not be obvious to other students.

Teachers should create an atmosphere where students should not feel embarrassed about choosing a lower level book for self selected reading.

The location of the classroom library is also important. If students have to run an obstacle course of desks to get to the books, they are less likely to read during independent time.

A room room should have comfortable areas for students to sit and read.

Shifts to align school with Common Core Standards

Shifts to align school with ELA CCSS (Common Core Standards)

To align curricular materials and classroom instruction with the ELA CCSS, educators will need to accomplish six shifts in instruction.

Shift 1: Increase reading of informational text

Shift 2: Growth in text complexity
Each grade level requires a "step" of growth in text complexity on the "staircase" to being ready for the complexity of career read y texts. Teachers provide grade appropriate text

Shift 3: Text based answers and comprehension
After reading a central text, students have rich and rigorous conversations about it. Teachers ensure that students make evidentiary arguments based on the text, both verbally and in writing, to assess their comprehension of the text.

Shift 4: Academic Vocabulary
Students constantly build the vocabulary they need to access grade-level complex texts. Think comprehension of words such as discourse and theory as opposed to homonym and onomatopoeia

Shift 5: Writing from sources
Writing instruction emphasizes use of evidence to make an argument and inform, including short, focused research projects starting in kindergarten.

Shift 6: Literacy instruction in all content areas
Connect area teachers in social studies, science and technical subjects emphasize literacy experiences in their planning and instruction.

Source: Virginia Goatley, Director, International Reading Association, Associate Professor in the Reading Department, University of Albany, State University of New York.

Precision reading

Precision reading focus is on teaching:

1. memorization of sight words,
2. fluency (speed, accuracy, and flow), and
3. reading for meaning (comprehension).


Other vocabulary development strategies

Concept builders and word maps by Frayer, Frederick & Klausmeir (1969)

Graphic organizers and mind maps by Barron(1969) and Schwartz & Raphael (1985)

Idea mapping and diagrams by Armbuster & Anderson (1982) and Moline (1996)

Keyword method by Levin (1983)

List group method by Johnson & Pearson (1984)

Possible sentences by Moore & Moore (1986)

Vocabulary overview guide by Carr (1985)

Word cycle by Szabos & Filkins (1984)

Word splash by Saphier & Haley (1993)



Resources

Precision Reading: Instructors Source book by Rick Freeze

Precision Reading: Instructors Hand book by Rick Freeze

Passage Power For Grades 1,2 & 3 cd (Reading passages)

Passage Power For Grades 4,5,6 cd (Language arts passages)

Passage Power For Grades 4,5,6 cd (Science and Social Studies passages)

Impact of TDSRC 2012

Connections made as a result of the TDSRC 2012

1. Prairie Tales and Alberta Culture Days celebration Filmmakers Jesse and Xtine
presented on September 28 at the Ermineskin Mall.
http://prairietales14screeningandworkshops.blogspot.ca/
(Film makers Zoe and Bailey presented at the Week 3 of TDSRC)

2. IODE to provide $300/month for the Breakfast and Books book club

3. Students excited about reading http://schoollibraryservices.blogspot.ca/2012/09/books-are-like-kidsawesome.html

4. Community Partnerships with banks, local businesses, and government agencies: http://schoollibraryservices.blogspot.ca/2012/06/collaboration-bulletin-community.html

5. Promoting literacy by using TDSRC materials
• http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/2012/06/may-30-students-brainstorming-ideas-for.html
• Grade 2a: http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/2012/06/class-2a-browsing-tdsrc-literacy-book.html
• Grade 3s: http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/2012/06/class-3s-showing-off-tdsrc-activity.html
• Grade 2d: http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/2012/06/class-of-2d-receiving-tdsrc-activity.html
• Grade 2k: http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/2012/06/class-of-2k-receiving-tdsrc-literacy.html
• Grade 2l: http://aboriginalsummerreading.blogspot.ca/2012/06/class-2l-received-activity-books-and.html


6. Encouraging volunteerism and creating capacity and I am seeing many volunteers emerging from the community.

7. Reading is an essential skills day was celebrated on September 21, 2002 and books were distributed to First Nation families.  http://essentialskillreading.blogspot.ca/

8. Ermineskin Reads to celebrate october as Libraries Connect month. http://canadianlibrarymonthhobbema2012.blogspot.ca/2012/10/intellmedias-ermineskin-reads-2012.html

9. Watch the library connecting at the Soup Kitchen, mall, etc. http://canadianlibrarymonthhobbema2012.blogspot.ca/2012/10/connect-at-soup-kitchen-on-tuesday.html

October is 'Libraries Connect' month

People! Ideas! Communities! Information! Canada's libraries foster connections between people, ideas, communities, and information.

In October, these connections will be celebrated during Canadian Library Month. The theme, Libraries Connect, highlights how libraries enable people to connect with others, foster the development of ideas, and promote the growth of strong communities. For generations, libraries and librarians have worked at the grass roots level, providing access to current information, bringing forward new programs and ideas to share, leading and supporting communities as they grow.
While always evolving to meet the needs of Canadians, engaging in new technologies like e‐books, Facebook, Twitter, and providing access to varieties of formats for different learning styles, etc., libraries continue to be at the centre of their communities, a place where people learn, engage and connect with each other.

http://www.cla.ca/clm12/index.html

Library month celebration in my school and community: http://canadianlibrarymonthhobbema2012.blogspot.ca/