Literacy Learning and News
Great Prairie AEA - November 2023
Welcome to the GPAEA Literacy Team Newsletter
The literacy team at Great Prairie AEA hopes this newsletter finds you well. With the cooler temperatures and the changing of the leaves, we know fall is here!
Our team is sharing information with you that is relevant and timely to literacy instruction. We want to keep you up-to-date!
Our newsletter will be shared in the Cornerstone, is available on the GPAEA website, and can be sent directly to your inbox. If you would like to receive our newsletter when it is hot off the press, please share your name and email with your AEA Literacy Consultant so you can be added to the list.
As always, we are here to support you and your students. Please feel free to reach out to us at anytime.
DIGGING IN TO KNOW BETTER AND DO BETTER
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Sharing your concerns with parents about dyslexia is important. Consider using a checklist to organize your thoughts about what you see in the classroom. If possible, have examples of the student’s work to show parents as well.
Although Iowa AEAs don’t provide the diagnosis of dyslexia, each school’s literacy consultant can support schools by helping design an intervention to match a student’s needs.
For further questions, contact Kara Veach, GPAEA Dyslexia Specialist: kara.veach@gpaea.org
Is Your Plate Too Full?
Click on the image to learn what Stephanie Stollar of Stephanie Stollar Consulting suggests we do to lessen the load this year. Then read the list below of the instructional practices to avoid.
Dr. Stollar is the former Vice President for Professional Learning at Acadience Learning Inc. She is a part-time assistant professor in the online Reading Science Program at Mount St. Joseph University, and a founding member of a national alliance for supporting reading science in higher education. Dr. Stollar has worked as an educational consultant, school psychologist, and as an assistant professor in the school psychology program at The University of South Florida. She has provided professional development for teachers for the past 25 years. She has conducted research in the areas of assessment, early intervention, and collaborative problem solving. As a member of the board for the Innovations in Education Consortium, she collaboratively plans the annual MTSS Innovations in Education Conference. (taken from https://www.readingscienceacademy.com/pages/about-us)
