Early Literacy

I spent the afternoon today, working with our kindergarten students on the Concepts of Print portion of our Early Literacy Screener.  It was nice to connect with the children outside of the Principal role, but more importantly, working with the screener has really helped me understand the District’s literacy screener that we use to build a literacy profile for each student.  The inservices that we have been provided have been great, but things really started to make sense to me when I had out LAT teacher administer the screener on me;  what better way to understand a tool that we use than to have to work with that tool on a very personal level.

Today was a start.  I had a 90 minutes of connecting with our youngest learners, and I took one thing off of the plate of a very busy kindergarten teacher.  Tomorrow, it’s Phonological Awareness for grade 1s...