Progress Reports in Aspen: A Refresher

 Resources to support the report card writing process are available in a variety of formats.

• short instructional videos (2-8 minutes in length)
• print documents
• recorded learning session

LKDSB teachers can access the video and print resources at 

https://lkdsb.sharepoint.com/sites/ElementaryReportCardsinAspen

View this recorded learning session for an overview of the Progress Reports in Aspen, including  Gradebook features and Live demonstrations. (1 Hour)

Progress Reports in Aspen Refresher

Check out the new Grade Comment Verification Report.  This report creates a pdf of the grades and comments entered in the Gradebook for a course. (Post Grades is still required to show the subject's marks and comments on the Report Card Document)

It is a way to review the entered marks and comments by course/subject without having to run the Report Card document and scroll from student to student.

How to run the report?  Watch this...(view at 2:45)

Under One Sun: Literacy Resource

LKDSB educators have access to a new reading resource.  Look for the Classroom Set for each grade.

(Note: Size Up!!   Kindergarten: Set 1, Gr. 1: Set 2, Gr.2: Set 3, etc.)

The Under One Sun resource invites K-8 students and teachers to learn about, and learn from Indigenous history, culture and perspectives. 

Each student text was written by Indigenous authors and Indigenous artists created the illustrations.

The Classroom Set includes a detailed Teacher Guide.  Included are a Read Aloud, a Shared Reading and Guided Reading Lessons.  The structure of each lesson: Before, During and After activities and discussion prompts.  Lessons focus on Literacy Strategies: Visualizing, Making Connections, Inferences, etc.

Six titles with six copies of Student Texts (Books, Cards, or Magazines) are included in each Classroom Set.  The Leveled texts can be used for Guided Reading and or Independent Reading.

Reconciliation Connections:  a suggestion for connecting to reconciliation through discussion or activities is provided in each lesson. 

Indigenous Themes are explored throughout Under One Sun:

• Identity: The theme of identity explores how people-Indigenous and non-Indigenous- think about and define themselves.
• Connections to Mother Earth: This theme explores each person’s relationship with Mother Earth, the source of all life.
• Relationships: Through the theme of relationships readers explore the importance of each person’s connection to other people, as well as to all creatures on Mother Earth.

Additional resources, including video, audio, images, and curriculum connections can be found at the Online Teaching Centre.

LKDSB Teachers access the Online Teaching Centre using the LKDSB MyNelson Login (username and password you use for Nelson Literacy and Math Resources)

Under One Sun is a great companion to the Take Action for Reconcilliation Junior/Intermediate resources that were delivered to schools last year. 

RELAUNCH 2022

A K-8 LKDSB online conference for educators to rebuild, reconnect, refresh, & reflect.

August 29 & 31, 2022

Sign up is easy and open to everyone!

1. Click the link: https://events.zoom.us/ev/AprxIvtKMYITSV4NFiIASlTBUzs526_7U95yzEwboU-lobhflBoT~AggLXsr32QYFjq8BlYLZ5I06Dg?lmt=1656448688000

2. Sign in to zoom (if you have an account with your @lkdsb.net email address) or create a free account with your @lkdsb.net email address.

3. Sign up!

Here are the sessions and program:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mPEWZZkCS-nujL2QbYVwgYO695sZmZLC/view?usp=sharing

Student Literacy Development of Phonemic Awareness using Heggerty

What is Phonemic Awareness?

Phonological awareness and phonemic awareness are oral and auditory, they focus on the sounds in words. Phonemic awareness and phonics are not the same.  Phonics involves print and focuses on letters and the sounds they represent.

Why Should We Teach Phonemic Awareness?

According to the Right to Read Report, written by The Ontario Human Rights Commission, “...the best way to teach all students to read words is through direct, explicit, systematic instruction in foundational word-reading skills” (p. 20).  This should include explicit instruction in phonemic awareness. 

 Effective Early Reading Instruction: A Guide for Teachers

This guide is intended to support teachers’ ongoing efforts to build students’ reading skills. It provides teachers with information on foundational early reading skills, an understanding of how these skills develop in young children, and examples of evidence-based systematic and explicit instructional strategies to support students to become proficient and fluent readers.

 How Can I Implement Phonemic Awareness Instruction?

The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum is a 35-week curriculum of daily explicit and systematic phonological and phonemic awareness lessons that are done through teacher modeling. It is an evidence-based curriculum that uses a scope and sequence of phonemic awareness skills. 

Whole class instruction is considered Tier 1 Instruction.  Based on assessment data, the Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum can also be used to differentiate instruction and provide support to a small group of students who need additional practice of targeted phonemic awareness skills (Tier 2). The Heggerty Curriculum could also be used for one-on-one instruction (Tier 3).

 

Pre-K Heggerty Curriculum	Kindergarten Heggerty Curriculum	Primary Heggerty Curriculum
Supports JK Students	Supports SK Students	Supports Grade 1 & 2 Students

 

What are the Phonemic Awareness Skills?

Heggerty Skill Tutorials

1. Rhyming

2. Onset Fluency

3. Blending (Words, Syllables, Onset-Rime, & Phonemes)

4. Isolating Final or Medial Sounds

5. Segmenting (Words, Syllables, Onset-Rime, & Phonemes)

6. Adding

7. Deleting

8. Substituting (begins in Week 19 in Pre-K)

 

Heggerty Tips

·         Students should be learning with the curriculum designated for their grade (Pre-K for JK; K for SK; Primary for Grade 1 and Grade 2).
·        Daily Lessons (Monday-Friday) with a whole group (Tier 1)
·        A classroom lesson should not exceed 15 minutes. If it does…do not skip skills! Reduce the number of words used with each skill, but still practice all of the skills.
·         All students participate by responding orally.
·         The only print the students see is letter cards for teaching Letter Naming & nursery rhymes
·         Hand Motions or Gestures support the development of the skills.  Learn about them here- Phonemic Awareness Hand Motions
·         Lessons can be used in small groups to provide intervention and support for students who need additional support with targeted skills instruction (Tier 2)

·         Heggerty supports a component of developing skilled reading: Word Recognition: Phonological Awareness-one part of the "reading rope" for reading instruction

https://www.reallygreatreading.com/content/scarboroughs-reading-rope

 

Heggerty Resources:

·         Heggerty Website

·         Reading Benchmark Assessment System SharePoint there is a folder (in the documents section) for Heggerty screeners for assessing student’s phonemic awareness

·         Heggerty Blog: Check out numerous resources, how to videos, lessons etc.

·         Heggerty Phonemic Awareness on You Tube

·        LKDSB training Session for Heggerty:  June 7th at 4pm. 

Heggerty Recording June