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 || //6 // || 7 || 8 || 9 ||  || Week One || 12 || 13 First day of Block I Field Experience; meet TFA 312 with Dr. Standerford and Dr. Lubig; building our community; syllabus and course organization || 14
 * **ED 311/316 Winter 2009 Calendar (tentative) **
 * January 2009 ** ||
 * Sunday || Monday || Tuesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Wednesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Thursday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Friday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Saturday ||
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Lesson planning || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">15

Learning Stations on writing in the early grades <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for next Wednesday: Tompkins: Ch. 1 Fletcher: Ch. 1-4 <span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">View DVD: Word Wall (vocabulary) <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">16 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">17 || <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Two || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">19 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">20 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">First day at Cherry Creek, tentative || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">21 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet TFA 312; Foundational concepts from Chapter 1 and about writing workshop <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Test: Tompkins, Ch. 1 online (between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">22 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Meet at Cherry Creek; Continue foundational concepts; <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for next Wednesday: Tompkins: Ch. 2 Fletcher: Ch. 5-10 View DVD: Shared reading and Interactive Writing || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">23 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">24 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Three || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">26 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">27 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Field experience <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Due: arrange a date to teach your strategy lesson before NMU’s spring break (March 1st); let Dr. Standerford know your date || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">28 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet Sandy Knoll, tentative Writing Workshop continued <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Test online: Tompkins Ch. 2 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">29 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet Cherry Creek Reading and Writing processes; preparing to teach kindergartners <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for next Wednesday: Tompkins: Ch. 3 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Put Rdg. First Ch. 1 & 2 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">View DVD: Word Wall (High Frequency) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">30 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">31 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Four || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3
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 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">February 2009 ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sunday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Monday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Tuesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Wednesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Thursday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Friday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Saturday ||
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Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">4 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Sandy Knoll; Teaching early readers and writers; phonemic awareness and phonics <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Test online: Tompkins Ch. 3 (between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday)

Due: Writing Workshop mini-lessons will be taught on Wednesdays for the rest of the semester; tentatively || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Cherry Creek; Teach kindergarten lessons, week 1; phonics

<span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for next Wednesday: Put Rdg. First Ch. 3 (fluency) View DVD: Making Words and Guided Reading Work on phonics skills and cards on your own || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">7 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Five || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">9 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">10
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Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">11 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Sandy Knoll; continue phonics <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Work on phonics skills and cards on your own

|| <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">12 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Cherry Creek; teach kindergarten lessons, week 2; phonics; fluency <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">For next Wednesday: Read Put Rdg. First Ch. 4 (vocabulary) View DVD: KWL and Instructional Conversations || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">13 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">14 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Six || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">16 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">17
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Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">18 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Sandy Knoll; DIBELS <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">

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Meet at Cherry Creek; teach first grade week 1 today; Vocabulary <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for next Wednesday: Tompkins Ch. 7 & 8 Put Reading First Ch 5 View DVD: KWL || <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">20 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">21 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Seven || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">23 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">24
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Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">25 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Sandy Knoll; Consider comprehension strategies <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Test online: Tompkins Ch. 7 & 8 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">26 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Cherry Creek; teach first grade week 2; comprehension <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for Wednesday after break: Tompkins Ch. 9 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Explore the MDE “Family FUNdamentals” document at: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">http://www.michigan.gov/documents/1st_Grade_Literacy_Activities_66526_7.pdf <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Due: All strategy lesson assignments are due before NMU’s spring break (see assignment sheet for details) <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">27 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">28 || <span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">NMU Spring Break || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">7 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Eight || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">9 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">10
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">March 2009 ** ||
 * <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sunday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Monday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Tuesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Wednesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Thursday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Friday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Saturday ||
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Field Experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">11 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Sandy Knoll; assessment; MLPP <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">DUE: Lead Writing Workshop Winter Group 1 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Test online: Tompkins Ch. 9 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">12 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Cherry Creek; begin planning Third Grade Unit family involvement in literacy learning <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for next Wednesday: Tompkins Ch. 13 Prepare for Phonics Exam next Wednesday

Due: Teaching Emergent Literacy Assignment || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">14 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Nine || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">16 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">17
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Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">18 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Meet at Sandy Knoll; organizing workshops for reading and writing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Test online: Tompkins Ch. 13 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday)

DUE: Lead Writing Workshop Winter Group 2 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Phonics exam today <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">19

Meet at Cherry Creek; Third Grade Unit week 1

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read for next Wednesday: Tompkins Ch. 10

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<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Ten || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">23 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">24

Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">25

Meet at Sandy Knoll; basal reading programs <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">DUE: Lead Writing Workshop Winter Group 3 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Test online: Tompkins Ch.10 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">26

Meet at Cherry Creek; Third Grade Unit week 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">27 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">28 ||
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<span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Eleven || <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">30 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">31

Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(see April 1st below) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Eleven continued || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1
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 * <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Sunday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Monday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Tuesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Wednesday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Thursday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Friday || <span style="display: block; text-align: center; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Saturday ||
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Meet at Sandy Knoll; <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">DUE: Lead Writing Workshop Winter Group 4 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">

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Meet at Cherry Creek; Third Grade Unit week 3 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Due: Unit Overview and Grid || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">4 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Twelve <span style="display: block; text-align: left; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">MAPS Spring Break || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">7 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">NO Field Experience; Class may meet at TFA 312, to be decided later || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">8
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Meet at TFA 312, tentative <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Due: Research Project assignment || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">9

<span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Read before next Wednesday: All research projects for test next week || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">10 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">11 ||
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Thirteen || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">13 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">14

Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">15

Meet at Sandy Knoll; <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Test online: Research projects <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(between 6:00 p.m. Wednesday and 8:00 a.m. Thursday) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">16

Meet at Cherry Creek; Third Grade Unit week 4 <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Due: Unit Family Newsletter and best Lesson Plan example from unit || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">17 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">18 || <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Week Fourteen (last week of classes) || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">20 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">21
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Field experience || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">22

Meet at Sandy Knoll; || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">23

Meet at Cherry Creek; Third Grade Unit week 5 (final lesson and wrap up) <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Due on Friday, 6:00 p.m. to WebCT Dropbox: Final reflection on the Third Grade Unit || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">24 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">25 || <span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Final Exams || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">27 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">28 <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: red; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Final Exam: 8 – 10 a.m., TFA 312, tentatively
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Comprehensive exam based on Praxis Practice chapter quizzes from the Tompkins website || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">29 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">30 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ||