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Building a Love of Reading!
An action that we have taken to support our school’s learning focus is: Our Staff and Students have worked closely with our school Teacher Librarian throughout the year to develop literacy skills and a love of reading. This action supports our school’s learning focus in the following ways: Along with our Classroom / Resource and…
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Literacy Check-In
Our staff has spent the first half of the year putting focused effort into better understanding the literacy needs of the students in the classroom and delving into shared resources that have been successful in their grade group in the past, new resources curated by our librarian, and exploring specific areas of need. At our…
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Reading Assessments and Follow Up Supports
In September, we welcomed students back to Hamilton and introduced them to their new classes. In the coming fall months, staff completed reading assessments with all of our students from Kindergarten to Grade 7. We noticed that overall, throughout the grades, reading fluency and decoding skills were a relative strength where as comprehension (retelling, summarizing,…