“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
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