Minutes

=Welcome to the Lieder Language Arts site for the meeting minutes.=

The Liaison Meeting scheduled for January 27, 2009 was cancelled. The next meeting is scheduled for February 24, 2009. Stay tuned for more information.

The liaison meeting was held on November 18th after school. Here are the highlights: ·  Fountas and Pinnell training will take place soon to get teachers familiar with the process prior to the next round of testing. Testing window opens on Dec. 8 through 17. More details are forthcoming regarding training dates… Training will occur here at our building. ·  Irene Fountas will be in Houston on December 16 and will offer a session at CFISD that you can attend. It is listed on Avatar (#9095) for you to sign up. It will fill up fast so you may want to get signed up ASAP. The topic is fluency and comprehension. ·  There are many videos available for check out at ISC that pertain to reading and writing. We are awaiting an electronic version of the list and will get that out to you when it arrives. We want to make training available to everyone if there is an interest. Look over the list when it arrives and let us know if there is something of interest to you or your grade level. ·  Writing kits: Lucy Culkins Primary Kit is for use in Kinder and first grades. Second Grade is using the purple kits from Schoolwide. Third grade has the Lucy Culkins Intermediate and also the purple kits from Schoolwide. Fourth grade is using the Fletcher and Portaloupi kits and Jeff Anderson’s book for Read 180. Fifth grade is following the district unit of study guidelines regarding personal narratives, directed author studies, and historical fiction unit of study. ·  Training will be offered to fourth grade teachers on Test Talk in Writing on December 2 at Matzke after school 4:30-6:30. It will follow the Fletcher and Portaloupi kit suggestion of RUPR found in the kits. A number is not yet available on Avatar. Watch for that to show up.
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Our next meeting will be on Friday, Dec. 5. We are planning to put the minutes up on this site as soon as we have the next vertical team meeting. Come on back soon to find the minutes. Cindy and Nina