Instructional Focus

A school-wide goal to improve reading and writing for meaning by all students.

Where 'reading for meaning' makes a difference!

Measured by:

• Highest Level of Achievement Tests
• Provincial Achievement Tests
• Teacher Observation
• Student Work

Teaching Strategies - Best Practices

• Balanced Literacy program
• Barrett’s Taxonomy
• Other Instructional Strategies
  • Retell, Relate, Reflect
  • Somebody, Wanted, But, So
  • Graphic Organizers
  • 5 W's and HI