We hope you are all getting off to a great start this year. Here are a few literacy updates to be aware of as you move into this new year.
- We are pleased to welcome Sara Henderson to the T&L team. She is replacing Cindy Stevenson and she will be helping with all literacy needs. Please feel free to reach out to her.
- As you take inventory of Really Great Reading supplies for the teachers at your school, please let us know if you need any additional teacher manuals or student workbooks.
- Teachers who teach self-contained support classrooms will need to use the Really Great Reading curriculum this year for tier 1 instruction. If materials have not been ordered for any of these teachers, please let us know and we will order right away.
- Teachers in 3rd grade will now be using HD Word Plus. These materials were purchased for your 3rd grade teachers. If you purchased HD Word for third-grade teachers last year, please send those materials back to us at the ASB and put “Attention to Sara Henderson” on the box. We can reimburse you for that purchase.
- If you have been sent any extra materials for Really Great Reading or 95% Group, please send them back to the ASB and put “Attention to Sara Henderson” on the box.
- We have had a shipping delay on the magnetic student syllaboards boards that go with Really Great Reading. We are expecting the shipment to arrive sometime in October. Kindergarten will not need these boards before this time, but 1st-3rd will. As a temporary solution the company has given us free access to the digital Letter Tile Free Play. Please let all 1st-3rd grade teachers know they can have students access the website at the following address and that the password is the same for all students.
Website: tile.rgr.fun
Password: jsd.jsd - We will be holding a Literacy Launch training for anyone who was not able to attend in the summer. The dates for that training are September 8th and 9th and the class will be held at the ASB in the auditorium. Anyone who needs to attend can sign up on JPLS.
Additional Heggerty and MSRC classes are scheduled on September 7th and 14th from 4:30 - 7:30 at the ASB for any teachers who still need this training. Teachers can register on JPLS.