NO SIT Meeting on 11/6

Camille and I are recommending to not meet as a full SIT on 11/6. However, the two of us will continue to plan for Literacy Night.

We anticipate the next full SIT meeting will be on December 4 at 7:30 AM.

Here is information about our current state of planning for Literacy Night: http://kingsit.blogspot.com/2009/10/sit-literacy-night-2009-10-plan-so-far.html

The next steps we're working on:

• Identifying teachers to write plans for Literacy Night
  
• Identifying teachers to present at Literacy Night
• Work on folder handouts for Literacy Night
• Translation of curriculum materials into Chinese, Japanese, Korean using Title III funds (three most dominant languages at King other than English)

Please let us know if you have questions.

LIteracy Night Planning So Far

SIT Literacy Night 2009-2010 Plan-So-Far

Purpose/Objectives
• informative - what happens in the workshops
• provide ways for parents to support curriculum/students
• create common understanding & common language

Two Nights: Tentatively Jan 26th and 28th Same program on Tuesday and Thursday. Aim is to get larger share of parent population. Parents choose 2 sessions per night. 6:30-8:30

Structure:
General lesson plans made by 2 staff (1 for K-2 and 1 for 3-5)
K-2 Reader’s Workshop—team of 2 teachers
3-5 Reader’s Workshop—team of 2 teachers
Writer’s Workshop by grade-level—6 individual teacher presentations.
• 10 min intro-Kevin
• Session one 50 min
• 10 min transition
• Session two 50 min

K-2 reader’s workshop
• explanation to parents of what a reader’s workshop is
• and how guided reading is one piece of the reader’s workshop
• K-2 mini lesson
• centers
• read aloud/ shared reading /interactive reading
• word work
• demos of guided reading
• have group of kids present to model guided reading & mini lesson

3-5 reader’s workshop
• explanation to parents of what a reader’s workshop is
• and how guided reading is one piece of the reader’s workshop
• 3-5 mini lesson
• read aloud/ shared reading /interactive reading
• reading response letters
• demo of guided reading
• have group of kids present to model guided reading & mini lesson

Writer’s workshop
• writer’s workshop presentation by grade level
• explanation to parents about what a writer’s workshop is
• create common language
• share writing calendar
• word work
• reading like a writer
• writing process- brainstorm, draft, revise, edit, publication
• model/demonstrate a mini lesson
• real-time demo of writer’s workshop with kids too time-consuming/detailed
• instead, have real students' writing as reference point for whole process



In parent’s folder:
Opening SIT Letter (Kevin)
Room/Session list ( )
School map-(copy handout)
Reading levels book for parents (district/Mrs Greene)
Parents’ guide (district? Emu?)
Abstract of school year writing calendar (Camille)
Glossary for parents (Camille)
EMU handout of 10 facts about writing (Copy handout)

Still to do:
Confirm dates; 6:30-8:30
Collect lesson plans from lead teachers
Verify presenters/meet with group?
Collect/copy writing samples (1per grade level)
Choose/prepare kids for modeling
Decide attendance limit
Paper (C) & electronic (K) sign up form
Blurbs for enotes & newsletters (C)
Get Kingcare for 2 nights

Further Literacy Night Ideas

Teachers who present will receive a lesson plan which can be used to base their presentation.

Need one teacher for each grade level K-6 in writing.
Need two teachers for K-2 and two 3-5 for reading.

Writing

Not sure yet which genre should be covered at each grade; possibly this should be based on recommendations of writers of lesson OR based on genres where process samples have been collected.

Revision ideas:
Include model of peer editing conference with students.
Two plusses and a wish?
Or it could be a modeled conference between adult and student
Major focus should be to help parents understand what happens to get from first draft to last draft.

What actually happens in class needs to be covered to increase parent understanding.
Mini-lesson, time to write, time to conference, summary/sharing ...?

What else could be included to make clear what happens in revision?

Presentation around ELL?

May 2009 and June 2009 Agendas

May 2009 meeting
Review feedback from Family Writing Workshops
Discuss refine literacy night planning

June 2009 meeting
Finalize literacy night planning

Consolidated LIteracy Night Ideas To Date

Literacy Night Fall 2009 Plan-so-far
—based on our meetings and Lisa’s lovely minutes

Purpose/Objectives
• informative - what happens in the workshops and ways for parents to support
• create common understanding & common language
• Question: is this a one or two night thing?

K-2 reader’s workshop
• explanation to parents about what is a readers workshop
• and how guided reading is one piece of the readers workshop
• K-2 mini lesson
• centers
• read aloud/ shared reading /interactive reading
• word work
• demos of guided reading
• idea to have some kids present to model guided reading & mini lesson

3-5 reader’s workshop
• explanation to parents about what is a readers workshop
• and how guided reading is one piece of the readers workshop
• 3-5 mini lesson
• read aloud/ shared reading /interactive reading
• reading response letters
• demo of guided reading
• idea to have some kids present to model guided reading & mini lesson

Note: Make sure there's a connection between K-2 demo models and 3-5 demo models in what is presented

Writer’s workshop
• explanation to parents about what is a writers workshop
• create common language
• share writing calendar w/ parents so that they see how their kids are involved in multigenre writing throughout the year.
o Share this information at Curriculum Night, too.
• word work
• reading like a writer
• writing process- brainstorm, draft, revise, edit, publication
• model/demonstrate to parents what a mini lesson looks like
o topics?
o Have real kids in this demo as well?
• have real students' writing to displayed as a process
o how many real kids writings?
o Anonymous?
o Have teachers use an actual student’s process with work to illustrate?

My questions:
• What differences are there in K-2 and 3-5 writer’s workshop? How should they be set up differently on Literacy Night?
• How many sessions of each?
• How long each?
• Parents go to 2 sessions?
• Kids on premises?
• Sept. suggestion—possible dates?