“Literacy for ALL”

A TEAM Approach to the Integration of Reading, Writing, Reasoning,

Speaking and Listening into All Content Areas

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Access PowerPoint Resources

• Go to www.alcaweb.org• Select Resources at the top of the page• Move to the Resources Library on the left• Select Shared• Enter the ACCESS KEY

Deepen the TEAM’s understanding of the initiative “Literacy for ALL: Every Day, Every Classroom, No Exceptions”

• Step 1 – “Begin with a Team”

• Step 2 – “Focus on Literacy Strategies”

• Step 3- “Monitor and Evaluate”

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

First Goal

• Develop a COMMON COMMON PurposePurpose, ,

COMMON COMMON Vocabulary, Vocabulary, and

COMMON COMMON Vision Vision to communicate

and collaborate efficiently and

effectively as highly functioning

teamsteams to accomplish the mission mission

(purpose)(purpose) of the school.

“The best worksheet is a blank piece of paper.”

Get a Blank Sheet of Paper

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Common Purpose

Fold the paper in half vertically.Then fold in half horizontally.

Then again horizontally.Draw lines on each fold.

This creates 8 distinct boxes.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Example: Notes for Purpose of Education

Use one box to capture definitions for specific “topics”

Activity – Elbow Partners

Define the “purpose of education”.

Use any method you have at your disposal to help in this activity.

Computer, iPad, Internet, Smartphone, etc.

Be prepared to share your definition with the group.

Fundamental Purpose of Education

The fundamental purpose of education is to teach a person to read and write…

that is to make him literate in an ever-evolving society – to make a person aware, responsible, earn money, develop social skills, fuel one’s thirst for knowledge – to be career, college, citizen, workforce ready.

National Learning Disabilities

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

“The purpose of education is to enable individuals to reach their full potential as human beings, individually and as members of a society; this means that these individuals will receive an education which will enable them to think and act intelligently…”

http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Purpose_of_Education.htm

“The Purpose of Education”

Education should equip us with the power to think effectively and objectively. To think is one of the hardest things in the world, and to think objectively is still harder.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/liberation_curriculum/pdfs/purposeofeducation.pdf

Martin Luther King

Jr. Papers Project, ©2004

The Purpose of Education: Good Citizenship

Eleanor RooseveltPictorial Review 31 (April 1930)

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Integrate Integrate 2121stst Century Skills Century Skills

Prepare Students for THEIR Future

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

7 Survival Skills for the 21st Century

1. Critical thinking and problem-solving. The ability to ask good questions.

2. Collaborative problem-solving with a deep appreciation of the differences between peers.

3. Innovation4. Ability to speak and write with voice and reason5. Ability to question, learn, clarify thinking using

research6. Curiosity, creativity, imagination7. Sense of initiative

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

Curriculum Instruction

Standards Assessment

Resources Effective Instructional Strategies

Instructional Effectiveness Defined

The effective integration of literacy and learning strategies.

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

What is Learning Strategies Instruction

Strategy instruction is a powerful student-centered approach to teaching that is backed by years of quality research. In fact, strategic approaches to learning new

concepts and skills are often what separate good learners from poor ones.

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

Elbow Partner Activity What is Literacy?

• Use any resource available to develop your teams understanding of literacy.

• Explore the question, “What is literacy?”

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

Literacy DefinedLiteracy has always been a collection of communication practices.

As society and technology change, so does literacy.

Adopted by the NCTE Executive Committee, February 15, 2009

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

Twenty-first century readers and writers need to:

Develop proficiency with the tools of technology

Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems

Design and share information

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of information

Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts

Attend to the ethical responsibilities required in these complex environments

Topic: Common Core Initiative Standards Domain

http://ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/TLE-TPSFramework12.pdf

“It’s not what you know. It’s what you can do with what you know.”

-Tony Wagner

Vision 2020 Keynote

July 2013

Consider different perspectives…What do you see?

4 Areas of Focus in ALL Classrooms

1. Reading2. Writing3. Speaking and Listening4. Reasoning

Consider different perspectives…What do you see?

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Define “Reading”• Reading is a complex cognitive process of

decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning (reading comprehension). Other types of reading are not speech based writing systems, such as music notation or pictograms.

• The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations.

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Define “Writing”Writing (noun) - a group of letters or symbols written or marked on a surface as a means of communicating ideas by making each symbol stand for an idea, concept, or thing (see ideogram), by using each symbol to represent a set of sounds grouped into syllables (syllabic writing), or by regarding each symbol as corresponding roughly or exactly to each of the sounds in the language (alphabetic writing)

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Visual Representation

• http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/?utm_source=ddc.large&utm_medium=html5

• Visual Thesaurus

Focus: Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I

read what I say.”-Flannery 0’Conner

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

By integrating writing into content areas we can help students develop an attitude that effective writing skills are an important part of many of their daily activities and will be, increasingly so, in future endeavors.

-Brandt and Graff (2005)

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

For students, it is critical to develop an understanding through practice that writing is not simply an abstract set of rule-governed behaviors but rather a means to clarify thinking across contexts and in a variety of formats.”

Emily Lardner co-director the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of

Undergraduate Education

What does the literature say?

“It’s not what you know. It’s what you can do with what you know.”- Tony Wagner

Vision 2020 KeynoteJuly 2013

Visual RepresentationUsing Technology

to explore

Definition(s) of WRITE

• http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Writing

Science

Social Studies

Physical Education/Sports

Fine Arts

Integrate a Common Vocabulary in all Classrooms

Graphic Organizer

Exploration Activity

• Go to the ALCA web Site• Select ROOMS located at the top of the page

• Use the Key Code to Enroll in the Literacy Room

LQWMDEE

Explore Literacy from Your Perspective

In the Literacy Room Select…

Baltimore County Writing Link

Visual Thinking and Learning• What is visual thinking and visual learning? • Visual thinking is a learning style where the

learner better understands and retains information when ideas, words and concepts are associated with images. Research tells us that the majority of students in a regular classroom need to see information in order to learn it.

• https://www.alcaweb.org/arch.php/room/10353• http://www.inspiration.com/visual-learning

Graphic Organizer Activity•Resource Guide: Organize Thinking and Learning with Graphic Organizers/Visuals1.Working with your elbow partner, scroll through the Graphic Organizer resource.2.Select several graphic organizers you feel would be beneficial to implement across the district.3.Select several graphic organizers you would like to integrate into your classroom instruction.4.Take notes in your personal playbook to share with your team.

MATH

#4 Speaking and Listening Lessons

• Developed through focused and interactive discussions.

• When students speak about ideas in a public forum, and when they react to and rattle ideas around, it is an act of ownership and investment.

Discussion•Discussion Process offers the Opportunity to Reflect

and Share

•Elbow Partner (Paired-Reflection)•Table Talk (Consensus)

•Group-Team (Shared Belief-Requires a • Group Reporter)

•Partner-Outside-Your-Team (Allows a Quick Movement Break)

Disciplined InquirySubstantive Conversation

• Focused• Higher Order Thinking• Sharing of Ideas• Promotes Improved Collective Understanding

• Reflective Processing

Discourse Skills• Collaboration• Collective Inquiry• Collective Reflection• Argument• Debate• Consensus Building• Executive Function• Opinion Formation• Patience• Resilience

Each skill must be:IdentifiedDefinedModeledPracticedMastered

The Basic Argument

• Addressing the Counter-Claim• Making a Claim – “Something you believe”• Providing Evidence• Putting It All Together – Closing

• Courtroom Analogy

Classroom Management Discussion Procedure

• Present the routine to the students– Establish an anchor spot at the front of the room

that will allow students to focus on the teacher when the call back signal is activated.

– First call back establishes a 10 to 20 second opportunity for students to draw their conversations to a close.

– Second call back occurs when the teacher reaches the designated call back spot and activates the final call back to begin reflection, discussion, or add additional instructions.

– Reference: Robert Marzano, Art and Science of Teaching Training, San Diego, October 2012.

How do you THINK about Thinking?

“Literacy for ALL”

A TEAM Approach to the Integration of Reading, Writing, Reasoning,

Speaking and Listening into All Content Areas

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

“Think About” and “Visual Thinking”

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tJPeumHNLYTED Talk - Published on Aug 31, 2012DRAWING IN CLASS – Lessons on Visual Note Taking

Rachel S. Smith is a Senior Consultant and the Director of Digital Facilitation Services for The Grove Consultants International in San Francisco, CA. Rachel develops ways to integrate technology into visual practice. She has a deep understanding of new media and its application to education.

Writing Across the Curriculum• Online Resources

– Visual Thesaurus – www.visualthesaurus.com – Michigan Department of Education– http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/writing/index.html – Baltimore City

http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/writing/index.html

– https://www.alcaweb.org/arch.php/room/10353

Topic: Literacy Strategies Domain

Reflective ProcessOn the back of your blank sheet of paper

1.List 3 things you learned, relearned, or unlearned today. (Make connections. “Oh, I see!”)

2.List 2 things you are ready to try. (Challenge yourself. “I want to try!”)

3.List something you want to learn more about. (Expand your personal and professional growth. “I want to learn more.”)

Topic: Threading Standards Standards Domain