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“Blue Notes”Instructional Records

Kathryn WinnApril 10, 2014

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Lesson Recording: Why?

They reflect what you accomplish in each session.• Documentation of Instruction: tracks what your students

have completed

Provides you with diagnostic information for pacing through the programs• Gives you objective information with which to assess the

progress of your students

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Progress Monitoring

Real-time progress monitoring• You can use them to direct your own session:

—Scan them in the beginning of session to help direct your current session focus.

—See what the students struggled with, or what was newly introduced, in the last hour.

• Other teachers can use them to help direct sessions.

They are a tool to gauge progress hour to hour, day to day.

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Lesson Recording: How?

Record and evaluate each session in your blue notes.• Note errors and areas of difficulty.

• Note when tasks are too easy.

Make your notes while you interact with your students.

Quickly note with abbreviations—this allows you to focus more on the student’s performance.

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Abbreviation Key

Unabbreviated AbbreviatedReceptive Rec.Expressive Exp.Color Encoding (blocks 1 syll) CENonsense Words NSReading in Context RICSyllable SyllMultisyllable MSMultisyllable Color Encoding MSCEBreaking Rules Br. RulesSight Word Box SWBExpectancies Expecs

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Unabbreviated AbbreviatedTwo Vowels Go Walking 2vgwFinal E F EVisual Spelling Chart VSCStar Words WordsSymbol Imagery SIClinician Clin/Cl.

Student S. Or, 1st initial of student’s name

Sentence by Sentence S x SMultisentence by Multisentence MS x MSWhole Paragraph Whole PHigher Order Thinking HOT

Abbreviation Key

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Abbreviation Key

Unabbreviated AbbreviatedPictures PicsPicture Summary Pic Sum/Psum/PSWord Summary WS/Wd SumMain Idea MIStructure Words Str. Wds.Symbol Imagery Exercises SI exer./ SI exMiscalls MCSelf-Corrections SC

Getting the Main Idea / Drawing Conclusions / Getting the Facts / Using the Context GMI / DC / GTF / UTC

Know Noun / Known Noun in a Sentence KN / KNISPrompt PR or P (usually circled)

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V/V Blue Notes

Record the following:The task/step

The level and book used for that task

Receptive, expressive, or silent

Evaluation of performance on the task• Note speed of processing• Gesturing, looking up• Automaticity

Subjective generalization of the amount of questioning or prompting needed

Vocabulary

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Seeing Stars / LiPS Blue Notes

Record the following:

The task/step

The level

Evaluation of performance on the task

Note errors/self-corrections or what needs reinforcement

Note speed of processing