This document provides an overview and agenda for a kindergarten teacher meeting focusing on Units 9 and 10 of the curriculum. It discusses celebrations, updates to the instructional path, assessments, and guided reading and independent activities. Teachers are asked to discuss their experiences with pacing, guided reading instruction, and using the Assessment and Remediation Guide. The document reviews objectives and lessons for Units 9 and 10, including tricky words, reading formats, assessments and remediation activities.

1. Kindergarten Skills
Strand--Units 9 &10
Ready to Bloom

2. Agenda
• Celebrations
• Updates
• Unit 9 and 10 overview
• Assessment
• GRAIR
• A&R guide
• Worktime

3. Where Are We Now?
• Turn and Talk to discuss the following:
• 3 Student Celebrations
• Pacing--Pacing Guide
• GRAIR time—when in your schedule? What types of activities
do you use?
• A&R Guide—have you used this guide at all? If so, when and
how has it been beneficial to your students?
• Please share out with whole group

4. Instructional Path Updates
• K Instructional Path Document
• Importance of Unit 8 End of Unit Assessment—review flow
chart
• Units 9 and 10— “Big Picture” and relation to beginning of
First Grade
• Extra Support/On Level/Enrichment

5. Unit 9---Noticings
• Take a minute to read and highlight overview
• Tricky Words—17 new and taught
• 2 parts to Warm Up
• Reading Format—what have you found success with? Choral reading,
partner reading, read-aloud for struggling readers?—Unit 9—no longer
presented as a demonstration first
• Group 1 and Group 2 work time
• Uppercase letter practice
• Story Questions
• Only learned 5 of 18 vowel sounds (still accept plausible spellings without
correction)
• Some worksheets will have decodable directions for students
• Individual Performance Task assessment –5 sentences with Tricky Words

6. A Note on Tricky Words
• What are Tricky Words in the CKLA program?
• Example/Model CKLA model
• Tricky Word— “from”
• Important elements:
• Begin by identifying which parts of the work students can depend
on
• Identify which parts of the word students must memorize—this
part makes the word “tricky”
• “Some words have a part that must be learned by heart.”
• Tricky Word List

7. Unit 10--Noticings
• 2 syllable oral segmentation technique
• Long vowels introduce—cute, tone—two letters can
work together even if they are separated, students may
need modeling to begin scanning the entire word and
begin back to the
• Magic ‘e’—routine
• Reading behaviors—punctuation marks, model
blending, take anecdotal records (sheet provided)

8. End of Year Assessment
• Some parts Administered individually
• Lesson 26—Unit 10
• Over the course of 4 days-
• 1. Word Reading
• 2. Sound Writing
• 3. Letter Sounds (individual)
• 4. Optional—lowercase letter writing,
• uppercase letter identification

9. Guided Reading and Accountable
Independent Reading
• 30 minute portion of ELA block designed for:
• Guided Reading
• activities that will encourage fluency development in
Kindergarten
• Partner reading, simple book talks, etc.
• Listening center
• Lexia, RAZ kids, Tumblebooks

10. Assessment and Remediation Guide
• One for each unit—allows for tiering and support with
adjustable assignments, use during intervention
blocks, activities to support GRAIR time
• Progress monitoring—embedded within A&R guide
and specific to isolated sounds, spelling patterns, etc.
• Take some time to review during our planning session
on e-learning or engageny

11. Work Time
• Use of Common Core Planning Guide
• Planning Guide
• Use of Screening Tool
• Screening Tool
• GRAIR plan with data in mind
• A&R use during intervention,
Small group, GRAIR, etc

12. THANK YOU!!
• Please leave feedback

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Unit 4: Push and Say

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Kindergarten
Assessment and Remediation Guide
Unit 4: Oh Nuts

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Kindergarten
Assessment and Remediation Guide
Unit 4: Bingo

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Kindergarten
Assessment and Remediation Guide
Unit 4: Race to the Top

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Assessment and Remediation Guide
Unit 4: Tic Tac Toe

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Kindergarten
Assessment and Remediation Guide
Unit 6: Letter Name Game

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Kindergarten
Teacher’s Guide
Unit 6: Fishing Pond

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Teacher’s Guide
Unit 6: Phrase Flip Book

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Kindergarten
Teacher’s Guide
Unit 6: Spelling Hopscotch