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Accelerating Student Learning: Monitoring Reading

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Where are we?

Explanation of slide: For example, in the Northwest boating is an important recreation and livelihood. Whether you are on a whale watching tour or fishing, sometimes finding your way back to your port is easy. The sky is clear, the ocean blue, and you can clearly see your home port and the course you should follow to reach a safe harbor.

But sometimes the fog roles in and our journey to our goal becomes much more difficult and challenging. It is hard to tell where we are, where we want to be, what course to follow, and whether we are getting closer to safety or need to make a course adjustment.

So we turn on the GPS and ask where we are. Of course, knowing where we are is only of limited help. We also need to know where the port, our safe harbor, is.

We also need to know what course to follow to get there. The GPS can tell us to point the boat at 117 degrees and progress for 20 minutes at 10 knots to reach our goal.

Now we have a good plan about how to get to our goal, our safe harbor, and avoid the rocks and cliffs on either side. But, sometimes our plans go awry….

We also need to check up on our progress in time to make course corrections. If we are off course, the time to modify our plan is early, in time to still reach our safe harbor and not end up on the rocks.

[The slide contains the questions:

There is a diagonal line with the words "We are Here" in blue at the bottom, the line moving up has the words "Desired Course" in read, and at the end of the line is a green X with a circle around it with the words "Our Goal." Along the right side of the diagonal line is a line of black Xs with the words "Actual Course."]