HISD Early Childhood Department Elementary Curriculum and Development Office

Pre-K Lead Teacher Meeting #1Sept. 10/11, 2014

LET’S BREAK THE ICE

MY BONNIE LIES OVER THE OCEAN

MEETING AGENDA

Resources: Frog Street ECH Blog

Data

Neuhaus Grant

Fall Calendar

The HUB

Literacy by 3

CPALLS+

EARLY CHILDHOOD STAFF• Janice Dingayan

– Early Childhood Manager

• Marcela Landestoy– Curriculum Specialist

• Kimberly Guinn– Curriculum Specialist

• Erica Andrews– TSR Grant Coordinator

• Carol Downey– Department Secretary

Frog Street Data 2013-2014Language & Literacy EOY

Subtests English Spanish

Vocabulary 90 90

Uppercase Letters 87 89

Lowercase Letters 84 87

Rhyming 70 74

Alliteration 66 80

Letter Sounds 89 93

Name Writing 91 96

Writing 85 91

Frog Street Data 2013-2014Mathematics

Subtests English Spanish

Rote Counting 85 87

Numeral Recognition 85 87

Subitize 88 93

1 to 1 Counting 93 95

Cardinality 84 88

Patterns 79 84

Operations 80 86

NEUHAUS GRANT

Teachers Make a Difference Pre-K Initiative

– Build children’s oral language and early literacy skills

– Improve teacher’s instructional practice

FULL IMPLEMENTATION5 Days of Professional

DevelopmentAssigned Literacy Coach

Early Literacy Quick Assessment (3x/yr)

CONTROL GROUPReceive Professional

DevelopmentReceive ELQA (3x/yr)

No Coaching

CPALLS+ ASSESSMENT

• Assessment Administration– Approximately 15 minutes per student

• Login Procedures– Single user login: assessments, intervention

activities, and teacher PD• Student Intervention

– Creates groups & differentiated instruction• Data Retrieval and Tracking

CPALLS+ ASSESSMENT

CPALLS+ REQUIRED SUBTESTS

Rapid Letter Naming

Rapid Vocabulary NamingListeningRhyme

RecognitionRhyme Production

AlliterationWords in a Sentence

SyllabicationOnset-Rime

Rote CountingNumber

Identification1 to 1 Counting

CardinalityPositional Words

SortingShapes

Ordinal WordsOperations

Book and Print Concepts

Early Writing SkillsSocial Emotional Skills Checklist

Language & Literacy Mathematics Observable

Behaviors

SUGGESTED SCHEDULEhttps://hisdearlychildhood.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/recommendations-

for-boy-administration-20141.pdf

FROG STREET RESOURCES

http://www.frogstreet.com

cdorr@frogstreet.com

Click here

http://portal.frogstreet.com/online_library/dashboard/bilingual/

ECH BLOGhttp://hisdearlychildhood.wordpress.com

Patterns: HISD Pinterest Page

Phonics

Read-Aloud

Guided Reading/Small

Group Instruction

Independent Reading

Writing

Literacy by 3 in PKPhonics

• Phonemic Awareness

• Letters and Sounds

• Making Words/Spelling Patterns

Read-Aloud

• Shared Reading• Differentiating

during the Read Aloud

• Before, During, & After Reading

• Comprehension & Oral Language Development

Guided Reading/Small

Group Instruction • Using data to

determine small flexible groups

• Appropriate intervention activities focusing on literacy skills

• Developing Early Reading Behaviors (left to right, return sweep, voice-print match, how print works)

• Thinking about the text when reading (within the text, about the text, & beyond the text)

Independent Reading

• Self-selected reading procedures for the classroom

• Reading Reenactment for using ”book language”

• Take-home reading procedures

Writing

• For Children – modeled writing, morning message, functional print

• With Children – morning message, interactive writing, predictable charts

• By Children – stages of writing, guided writing, journaling or daily writing

• How to analyze and assess student writing

• The purpose of the “writing center/work station”

Balanced Literacy Diet

THE HUB

THE HUB

ENROLL IN THE PK COURSEhttps://hisdearlychildhood.files.wordpress.com/

2013/08/hub-directions-for-pk-guides.pdf

FALL PD OFFERINGShttp://hisdearlychildhood.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/fall-2014.pdf

PD OPPORTUNITIES

Sept. 25: Region 4:

New Teacher Academy

January 31:RT Garcia Early Childhood Winter Conference