2015 Handouts

A selection of available handouts from the CIRR 2015 Annual Conference.

Channeling Your Inner Detective: Looking for Clues to Move Learning Forward

An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement provides classroom teachers with an opportunity to be careful observers of ‘how young children learn to read and write’ (Clay, 2005). During our session we will investigate how ‘the information produced by systematic observation reduces our uncertainties and improves our instruction’ (Clay, 2001). We will look for clues to move all students’ learning forward as we build on the strengths revealed throughout the tasks.

Presenter: Dee Dee Verlinde

York Region District School Board

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Ready-Set-Go

A case study of one EAL student ‘Cris’ in his first 10 Reading Recovery lessons and the considerations that led to accelerated progress to Level 3 texts and beyond right from the start. These considerations are also applicable to first literacy lessons in a grade one classroom.

Presenter: Holly Cumming

Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, Winnipeg School Division

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Time’s Up: The Race Against the 30 Minute Timer

Is your timer ringing before your lesson has ended? Are you challenged to ‘fit everything in’ each day? Clay advises us that, ‘With a measured dose of opportunities [the teacher] steadily lifts the level of challenge.’ In this interactive session, we’ll examine what these measured doses of opportunity may look like and how our teaching decisions contribute to fast and fluent responding in a 30 minute lesson.

Presenter: Dee Dee Verlinde

York Region District School Board

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