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Today• Overview of Project So Far
– February, March, August, September, November• Interviews• Discuss your current unit of study by grade level• Planning
– Chalk Talk– What do you know about units of study across content areas at your grade level?
– Sample connections between materials provided and content units of studies (Kim)
– Sample planning template (Sean)– Time for teacher planning
Project Goals
1. Increase teacher knowledge of the common core standards
February 2011: Common Core Standards Overview• Overview of the Project • Current Understanding of the New Common Core • Standards Overview • College and Career Readiness Overview • Instructional Strategies‐ Concept Mastery Routine• Planning
Project Goals
2. Increase teacher use of curriculum‐based measures
August 2011: Leading the Way to Formative Assessments• Materials Overview –Notebook• Where have we been? Where are we going? • Review and Enrichment
– Concept mastery routine – Framing routine
• Group activity (planning) • Text Structures and text features (as it relates to reading and writing)
Project Goals3. Increase teacher use
of research‐based strategies
March 2011: Effective Instruction in Information Text• On Demand Writing/Vocabulary • Materials/resources : Lesson Plan guide • FRAME Routine• Concept Mastery Routine • Classroom assessment • Formative assessment /constructed Response• Creating higher order multiple choice, short answer and, essay questions
• In‐class questioning • Question Answer Relationships (QAR): A strategy for students
Project Goals
4. Increase teacher use of research‐based strategies;– September 2011: Effective Writing Instruction
• Mission • Mentors role thus far • Lead conversations, dialogues for self‐reflection (+,‐), collect lesson samples and student work
• Integration of strategies – (e.g. The Fundamentals of Sentence Writing, Concept Mastery Routine,
the FRAMING Routine, QAR, development of curriculum based measurements, and use of technology to support literacy)
• Solid foundation in the common core standards, accompanying assessments, and instructional strategies.
• PD sessions to focus on comprehensive strategy integration (CSI) in the Spring of 2012.
Project Goals
Teachers expected to combine multiple strategies during instruction.
– November 2011: Effective Vocabulary Instruction• Additional binders • Website • Review of Effective Writing Strategies • Vocabulary • Direct Instruction (narrative texts)• Mnemonics • LINCing Strategy Routine
Stay in grade level teams.Discuss your current unit of
studyDiscuss the standards that
accompany your current unit of studyWhat are you working on?
What materials are you using?What strategies are you using?
ELA Units and Standards on Laptops (Curriculum
Documents)
Project team join grade level
Chalk TalkWhat central ideas and/or themes are covered in 6th
grade science?
What central ideas and/or themes are covered in 6th
grade social studies?
What central ideas and/or themes are covered in 7th
grade science?
What central ideas and/or themes are covered in 7th
grade social studies?
What central ideas and/or themes are covered in 8th
grade science?
What central ideas and/or themes are covered in 8th
grade social studies?
Structure for Today’s Planning
• Consider….– What is your current unit of study?– What standards accompany your current unit of study?
– Which informational texts can be used to support current unit standards?
– What connections can be made between informational texts and content area unit standards at your grade level?
– Consider strategies and assessments.
Structure for Today’s PlanningELA Standards Text/Source Content Unit Strategies Connections to
Assessment
Planning Tool—Narrative Text and Social Studies
ELA Standards Text/Source Content Unit Strategies Assessment
RL.8.6. Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Collier (An engaging historical novel set duringthe American Revolution.)
Social StudiesSS‐08‐5.2.2(The American Revolution)
Concept Mastery Routine
Concept Mastery Routine
Planning Tool—Narrative Text and Science
ELA Standards Text/Source Content Unit Strategies Assessment
RL.6.6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Last Book in the Universeby Rodman Philbrick (A science fiction novel set in a dystopian future after civilization as we know it was destroyed by an earthquake).
ScienceSC‐06‐2.3.3(Constructiveand Destructive forces such as earthquakes)
Concept Mastery Routine
Concept Mastery Routine
Planning Tool—Informational Text and Scocial Studies
ELA Standards Text/Source Content Unit Strategies Assessment
RI.7.2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
“The Secrets of the Rosetta Stone” (Reading Stories for Comprehension Success Intermediate Level P. 310‐325)
SS‐07‐5.3.3(Examining the impact of Ancient non‐WesternCultures such as Egypt).
Framing Routine;Text Features;Paraphrasing strategy
Framing Routine
Planning Tool—Informational Text and Science
ELA Standards Text/Source Content Unit Strategies Assessment
RI.6.1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
“Killer Bees” (Texts and Lessons for Content Area Reading P. 153)
SC‐06‐3.5.1(BiologicalAdaptation)
Concept Mastery Routine
Concept Mastery Routine
Time for Teacher Planning
• Goal: Use the materials you have been provided throughout this year to support incorporating (purposeful) informational text during your instruction.
Content and Literature Links
• http://appserv02.uncw.edu/booksearch/BookSearchResults.asp
• http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/sc/ll/ap/searchlist.asp
• http://www.socialstudies.org/resources/notable
• http://www.interactiveclassroom.com/pdf/Using_Multilevel_Young_Adult_Literature_in_Middle_School_Social_Studies.pdf
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