Dear Families,
We are incredibly thankful for your partnership over the last several weeks; without your assistance we would not be successful with distance learning. Please know that we miss the daily face-to-face interactions with your children. It is through these conversations in the classroom that we typically learn so much about how we can help them develop as learners.
We use your child’s work or performance on projects to see their progress and develop plans to improve their learning. Our school community continues to be dedicated to design remote learning tasks, projects, and quizzes that will provide us with information to support your child's learning now and when we return to the classroom--hopefully, sooner than later.
The Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) is a reading assessment that your child has taken twice this year that tells us how to support them with reading comprehension. Through the completion of the DRP this May, we will have an opportunity to learn more about your child as a reader as well as be able to make school wide decisions for the start of next year such as books to purchase, training for teachers, and student scheduling.
Your role in the completion of the DRP is quite simple. The DRP will be administered on Wednesday, May 27th . The week of May 18-22, your child's teacher will provide your child a username, password and the DRP website will be posted on all platforms on Wednesday, May 27th . We ask that your child log in and take as much time as needed (usually 60-90 minutes) to read the passages and respond to the questions. You can help by:
❏ watching from a distance that your child is focused
❏ ensuring there is minimal background noise
❏ checking in with the teacher after your child is done to see what you can do to help
As your child makes their way through the reading passages, it is possible they will become frustrated. This is understandable since some of the passages may be above their reading level. Please encourage your child to complete as many questions as possible; however, if they do not feel they can continue they may stop and submit the DRP. Lastly, it is important for you to know the DRP will not impact promotion and/or report card grades.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Stay healthy and safe! Mrs.
Dewana Daids, Principal