Goals and Objectives

I have finished doing an informal reading inventory and I have determined the student I am working with has:
Word I.D. - first grade
Listening Comp. - primer
Silent Reading Comp. - preprimer
For my goal, I want to increase each of these areas by at least one level for the year. My question is: What should my objectives be?
Any ideas would be helpful.
Thanks,
Lee

Hi literacy fans,

The literacy workshop on Nov. 1 and 2 was great. This is my first blog. I hope I'm doing this correctly. Sue J

2 Questions

Hello Literacy Campers,
I have a couple of questions.
1. When you make cloze/maze passages, how do you decide which words to leave out?
2. If you don't know the reading level of text you want to use with a student, how do you figure it out?
Thanks. It was great to see many of you last week at the 2 day follow-up. I hope there are more opportunities for us to get back together in the future.
Take care,
Lee

Good Afternoon

Hoping that everyone is doing well......we just recently started working on working with our SPED Staff on using the QRI, along with items from our Lit Camp 07 adventure. Will keep you
updated once we get it rolling. SPED Staff is very interested in providing an easy way of doing informal assessments with our students.....

Looking forward to seeing everyone Nov 1&2......have a great day......hope to see more posts

Derrick

Happy Halloween!! :)

Just wanted to check in to see how everyone's year is going so far?? My kids are so excited for Halloween, so today the OT that I share my room with and I decorated our rooms to look more Halloweenish! Kids should be excited come Monday!! Anyone go to Closing the Gap?? I so wanted to go, but it didn't work out for me this year.

Here's a joke for you all! Being from a farming community, I thought it was kinda funny:

A farm boy accidentally overturned his wagonload of corn. The farmer who lived nearby heard the noise and yelled over to the boy, "Hey Willis, forget your troubles. Come visit with us. I'll help you gidder up later."
"That's mighty nice of you," Willis answered, "but I don't think Pa would like me to."
"Aw come on boy," the farmer insisted.
"Well okay," the boy finally agreed, and added, "but Pa won't like it."
After a hearty dinner, Willis thanked his host. "I feel a lot better now, but I know Pa aint gonna like it none, he's gonna be mighty upset."
"Don't be foolish! I promised I'ld help with yer wagon." the neighbor said with a smile. "By the way, where is he?"
"Under the wagon."

Take Care! Karen Bakken

See you all soon!

H all!

Looking forward to seeing my camp buddies on November 1 and 2 at the MDE building!

I gave my first literacy lecture to our SLP graduate students a couple weeks ago. It went very well. It's surprising what they view as "literate" and "literacy." I think I may actually have some impact here! Linda

Another Website of Interest

I think we told everyone about Barb's Highland Park website during the camp, but this is a reminder that you ought to check it out as an example of (1) what you might do with your own kids, (2) ways you can augment the interest and learning of your students (and yourself) with free technologies.

Check out these web sites!

Thanks, Derrick, for setting up this blog!

In case you haven't had a chance to check, Dave has great information on his web site. He adds to his social bookmarks regularly and is going to be writing a literacy blog. You can even email him about topics you'd like him to address.

You can also find valuable information from Karen's web site. As an example, Gretchen Hanser, who directs the Deaf Blind Project, has a wonderful page with many downloadable materials. Click on this link to view it.

I look forward to seeing everyone in November.

Barb

Dept of Ed Information

Good morning Camp Courage Literacy Session Cohort members!

Hope your school year will be off to a good start.
I want to alert you to an invitation that will be arriving soon announcing a follow up training with Karen Erickson.
The Special Education Policy Division will sponsor a two day training, November 1 & 2,2007 at the Department to further the knowledge shared while at Camp Courage this past summer.
Please save the dates!

Jan Manchester
Developmental Cognitive Disabilities Specialist
MN Department of Education - Special Education Policy Division
1500 Hwy 36 West
Roseville, MN 55113
651-582-8341
Fax 651-582-8729
jan.manchester@state.mn.us

Literacy Camp 2008

Way to go Derrick! Glad to see we have a group blog. Here's some news you all can share with colleagues and families. We just settled on literacy camp dates for next summer: July 25-31 (Thursday to Thursday). Adults participants come in for instruction like you did July 25 and 26. Kids arrive July 26 and literacy camp runs July 27-31. Karen is going to be unable to squeeze it in her hectic schedule, but she is being ably replaced by Sally Clendon this summer. Sally finished her spectacular graduate career with Karen last year and is now working at the Sydney University in Australia. She has attended and co-taught all of the courses/camps we do on a regular basis and is extremely knowledgeable. Thanks to Barb for coordinating again, and Roger for figuring out the schedule.

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

Ok, everyone......

Here's a start to our Blogging Community....

Over the next week or two, I will start to organize and put things in order

Wishing everyone a great 07-08 school year....

WELCOME

Here's hoping that this will work as well as we all think it will....
Having a great day....Derrick