{"id":16,"date":"2016-01-22T19:53:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T19:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drwills.edublogs.org\/?p=16"},"modified":"2018-01-25T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T05:07:11","slug":"parent-presentation-wed-127-invitation-from-dr-wills-achieve-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/district\/superintendent\/parent-presentation-wed-127-invitation-from-dr-wills-achieve-3000\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Presentation Wed. 1\/27-Invitation from Dr. Wills-Achieve 3000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dear Putnam Valley Parents:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On <b>Wednesday evening, January 27 at 7:00pm<\/b> at the high school, the District will have representatives of the <b>Achieve 3000<\/b> program provide information on the program and ways for parents to become more involved in building a reading relationship with their students.\u00a0 While the program has been introduced in grades 2-10, all parents are invited to participate in this information session.\u00a0 You will learn the structure and resources that the program offers, as well as ways to help your students improve their skills as readers and critical thinkers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Have you checked out the Achieve 3000 weekend articles? If so, perhaps you and your student have had a discussion on a current topic of interest as part of your\u00a0 \u201creading relationship.\u201d\u00a0 Our students will be required to read, think, write and discuss throughout their educational and professional careers, and throughout their lives as active citizens.\u00a0 This week, at the Middle School, I observed a whole school \u201cread\u201d of an article on Martin Luther King, Jr. utilizing the Achieve 3000 reading program that we inaugurated this year as a supplement to the District\u2019s reading instruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As I noted in prior communication, Achieve provides non-fiction articles on a wide range of topics connected to curriculum at all grade levels. The articles are differentiated by reading lexiles so that all students can successfully grow in their ability to comprehend and analyze. \u00a0Accompanying the articles are critical questions to promote inquiry and analysis. Students who practice reading and thinking about what they have read improve their comprehension skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To become more acquainted with the program before the presentation, why not access the weekend article with your student to engage in an interaction around a current topic of interest. The program is available after school hours, and your student knows how to log in. The special weekend articles are available on Saturday and Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For more details on how to access the weekend article and on the Achieve program, please look at the following links.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portal.achieve3000.com\/index\">Achieve 3000 portal<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pvcsd.org\/superintendent\/120415.php\"><span class=\"s4\">Prior letters with directions<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday evening. If possible, please bring laptops or tablets, even phones so that you can practice on your own devices. We will have laptops available as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Frances Wills<br \/>\nSuperintendent of Schools<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Putnam Valley Parents: On Wednesday evening, January 27 at 7:00pm at the high school, the District will have representatives of the Achieve 3000 program provide information on the program and ways for parents to become more involved in building a reading relationship with their students.\u00a0 While the program has been introduced in grades 2-10,&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/district\/superintendent\/parent-presentation-wed-127-invitation-from-dr-wills-achieve-3000\/\">Continue Reading<span> Parent Presentation Wed. 1\/27-Invitation from Dr. Wills-Achieve 3000<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-superintendent","clearfix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2918,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/2918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvcsd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}