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Best Practices in the Modules

Grades 3-5

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Creating a Culture of Achievement

Introductions:

- Introduce yourselves

- Where you work

- Your role

- How you are doing meeting your goal you set from the norms for collaboration this morning.

Learning Target(s)

• I can analyze the modules to determine the embedded best practices that support all learners.

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Research about Best Practices

• We are going to jump right into an approximation of the close reading process.

• You will need:

- Summaries of Research and Best Practice: Accelerating Literacy,

-the English Language Learners at School book

- the Text Rendering Protocol which includes the recording form.

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Text Rendering Protocol

• Read texts depending on your preference.

• Select the texts from either “English Language Learners Focus” OR “Special Education”

• The initial reading is a quiet, independent reading.

• Read closely!

• You have 20 minutes.

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Reread and Answer

• You now have 10 minutes to reread to answer the three questions posed on the protocol. You should underline or highlight the evidence that supports your answers.

• Capture your evidence on the Text Rendering Protocol Recording Form.

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Share in groups

• Each person in the group should share the significant findings from their reading that most impacted their thinking.

• Then follow up with open discussion for about 3 minutes (timekeepers!). The facilitator needs to make sure that everyone gets a chance to offer at least one significant finding.

• Take about 10 minutes for this.

 

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Check on the Norms

• Once your discussion is completed, check on the Norms of Collaboration. How did your team do?

• Take 3 minutes to do this 

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Journal Reflection

• Reflect on the learning target in your journal.

• Take 5 minutes to write and reflect on your own.

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Analyzing the Modules

• Now you are going to analyze a lesson for evidence of best practices.

• You will need your Hold Your Thinking Document: Best Practices in the Modules (in your spiral notebook) and an appropriate grade level lesson (in your red folder).

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The analysis

• You should look in several sections of the lesson, including opening, work time, and closing/assessment.

• You will also look in the section “Meeting students’ needs.” This section specifically addresses scaffolding and differentiation.

• You will record your evidence on your “Hold Your Thinking” document.

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Synthesizing your thinking in a “gist

statement” • Spend 2 minutes creating a “gist statement” of

20 words or less that synthesizes your thinking on the question: What new understanding do you have about how the modules support all learners?

• Then spend 5 minutes discussing your gist statements within your groups.

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Journal

• Learning Target: I can analyze the modules to determine the embedded best practices that support all learners.

• Spend 2 minutes writing in your journal as you reflect on the target.

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