🍎 Proud ELA Coach at Orlo Vista Elementary 📚 Book Lover
Orlando, FL
Joined November 2011
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Reading science isn’t a step-by-step manual. It’s a powerful tool for understanding how children learn to read.
When we use that understanding to guide our decisions, we become more effective, more adaptable, and better equipped to meet all students’ needs.
#LiteracyLeadership
ALT "If expect reading science to tell us exactly what to do, we're likely to be disappointed; but if we shift our thinking and use it help us understand, we empower educators." - Andrea Setmeyer, National Chapter Director
Valerie Powell retweeted
Fabulous night of Constructing and Building Literacy skills night at Orlo Vista Park! 🔨📚🍕. Thank you to YCF for sponsoring and partnering with us! Students made bookmarks, competed in building words challenges, and 20 families received a free builder monopoly game.
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Progress monitoring is key! UFLI PM happening every two weeks. We monitor for tight fidelity so that we have valid data. Celebrations all around this morning for the growth🔥✨
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Our 4 houses met together today, to strengthen our house pride and to talk about how we can show Kindness on our campus. Each student wrote their actual of kindness on their leaf, and together we made our beautiful house tree of kindness💙💚❤️💛🍂🌳
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Happy Halloween from our @CollabClassroom SIPPS tutors! 🎃 If you work with beginning SIPPS you recognize Ann - she came to celebrate with her friends at @OrloVistaOCPS 🤩 Our tutors are superstars! 🥰📚⭐️ @OCPSnews @CDLocps #impactcdl #readingmatters
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Reading Coach Powell led our Science of Reading PDs today, focused on small group and meaningful center rotations. #sweetnotscary @ReadingCoachVP
Valerie Powell retweeted
Ultimately, our work with students is about training their minds to engage in specific mental processes with the knowledge we want them to gain and retain.
Is your instruction empowering students with strategies or are students engaging in activities?
ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/Practice…
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Great visual shared by @MmeLockhartLDSB via @sstollar6! Strong Tier 1 instruction reduces the need for extra interventions, ensuring students who need intensive support get it. Let’s prioritize strong foundational teaching for every student. #MTSS
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OCPS Elementary Literacy Coaches learned and collaborated at their September meeting today @CDLocps
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From their research guide "Writing to Read," Graham and Herbert recommend that students write about the texts that they read (Recommendation 1).
Check out more at the link below!
tinyurl.com/m86c9d2y
Valerie Powell retweeted
Coach Powell did a great job leading our Orlo Staff through the importance of Corrective Feedback for young readers. We are excited to strengthen our practice studying the Science of Reading this year! 📚✨@ReadingCoachVP
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"The goal...is to highlight the...ways the components of reading and writing overlap..."
Below, Joan Sedita shows how the Reading and Writing Ropes align!
keystoliteracy.com/blog/conn…
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"Students' ability to read nonfiction texts depends on their prior knowledge, and the act of reading nonfiction adds to their knowledge base and helps them learn more from subsequent reading. We need to find ways to weave prior knowledge into our students' reading." -Doug Lemov
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We are so thankful for the way Read 2 Succeed has invested in our Colts!✨
What a great way to end an amazing year! These kiddos @CatalinaES_OCPS did a fantastic job. 🥳. Hard work, done well, feels good! 📚. Keep reading all summer long! 🌴📖☀️ @Fdn4OCPS @OCPSnews #impactcdl
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What a fun day with the Olympics unit at @CatalinaES_OCPS! Our Colts have worked hard all year and they are now FAST Ready!🏆🎉
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Happy Solar Eclipse Day! It was so fun to see our Colts experiencing history! 🌘Shout out to #OCPS for providing eclipse glasses so we could view safely! @CatalinaES_OCPS @PrincipalPattyH @ThePrimaryCoach @MathCoachStron1
