Migrant Educator Newsletter: October 2019; Photo by Łukasz Łada on Unsplash
NYS-MEP Migrant Educator Newsletter - October 2019
Resources for P3-12, OSY and Parents: Scroll down to find links that take you to activities, apps, videos and handouts you can use with your students (P3-K-12-OSY) and parents.
Also, Check out the October Virtual PD Workshops At-A-Glance Below:
New: Regents Prep for Algebra I
Exploring WhatsApp for Instruction
Ask a Clinician
OSY
New from GOSOSY – Five interactive lessons that have a mixture of videos, handouts and listening activities for you to use.
High School
New resource: Regents Prep for ELA – The four-session version highlights test-taking skills for students who have a short time to review. Read more.
Parent and Family Engagement
Looking for a resource parents can use to prepare for parent-teacher conferences? Colorín Colorado! has a useful tip-sheet for parents. The handout explains what a parent-teacher conference is and provides a checklist parents can use to prepare for a conference with their child’s teacher.
K-8 ELA
Reading for Fluency
Highlight: The Quick Phonics Screener - This tool identifies which fluency skills a student needs to work on.
Reading for Comprehension
Highlight: Main Idea graphic organizer. With this organizer, students
- Identify the “topic;”
- Find the details in a paragraph of section;
- Use this information to identify the Main Idea.
Click here for the graphic organizer.
Watch the 7-minute video about teaching students to determine the main idea and writing summaries from NYS-MEP’s self-serve PD module: Reading Comprehension Of Informational Text: Main Idea
Free ENL app – Duolingo
Migrant Educators who attended the September Virtual PD: Supporting Entering Level ELLs in Middle School said their students like “playing” on this app as they learn English. Check this out wherever you get your apps!
K-8 Math
EngageNY outlines K-8 math curriculum.
- Students in Grade 5 start the year using place value and decimal fractions.
- Grades 6 and 7 start the year applying their understanding of decimal fractions as they work with ratios.
You can use our series of self-serve Visualizing Fraction PD Modules to help students understand fraction relationships by using Cuisenaire Rods.
- Click Here for the introduction to using Cuisenaire Rods in “Modeling Addition and Subtraction – Part A.”
- Click Here to read more about “Fractions to Decimal Fractions” PD module on the NYS Migrant website.
- Click Here for the paper Cuisenaire handout.
Early Childhood
Three new Early Childhood Sample Lessons were recently added to the NYS-MEP’s web resource Library. The lessons use A-Z Readers for the guided reading, and feature new handouts to use with children and share with parents.
For example, the “Picking Apples” lesson has a new parent handout with the Three Apples Counting Rhyme. In addition to the rhyme, it includes information about rhyming and suggestions for parents to share rhymes and songs from their childhood.
SEL/Trauma Responsive/Identity
Christiana Bethell, Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, reminds us that every interaction with a child counts in her article: Positive Childhood Experiences May Buffer Against Health Effects of Adverse Ones.
Directors
New on the website: Archived Virtual PD Workshops! After the virtual PD and Pop-Up workshops are completed for the month, they are now archived on the NYS Migrant website.
- Go to: News > Archived PD Events
Thank you!
Reminder: You can find the previous newsletters on the website at: https://www.nysmigrant.org/news. Thank you for reading, and as always, we invite you to share your thoughts and feedback!
- Mary Anne Diaz - mdiaz@brockport.edu
- Jenny Verdugo - jverdugo@brockport.edu
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