CMS Language! Team Victor Valley Union School District Cobalt Middle School Presentation October 21, 2009

CMS Language! TeamVictor Valley Union School District

Cobalt Middle School Presentation October 21, 2009

© Sopris West Educational Services. All rights reserved.2

The Six StepsFrom Sound

To TextIn every lesson



What are We Doing in These

Classes for Student Achievement?

• Receptive language including both listening and reading.

• Fluency at the phrase, sentence, and passage levels.

• Comprehension instruction includes, but is not limited to: Vocabulary analysis; predicting outcomes; summarizing; visualizing, and questioning.

• Text structure, analysis of informational text and literature genres.

• Reading-writing connections: Note-taking and information organization from reading through the use of graphic organizers.


What are we doing in these classes?It’s not so easy a caveman could do it – we have

considered serious educational pedagogy.


Making connections and tapping prior knowledge

Brain Research


What you will not see…


What you will see: Engaging StrategiesBrainstorming

Graphic organizers

Cooperative groups

Think alouds


Students are taught:• Answer questions orally• Write answers to questions• Practice expository writing• Write for various purposes• Apply principles of composition

Just as listening comprehension precedes reading

comprehension, speaking precedes writing.

What Else Are We Doing?

© 2005 by Jane Fell Greene, Ed.D. All rights reserved. Published by Sopris West Educational Services.


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Page 562 A


Preview:

• Common domain for English/Language Arts curricula

• How L! is unique– Explicit nature of instruction– Scaffolding of skills

Prerequisite skills are taught prior to work on comprehension and writing

– Significant use of modeling, Pair-share strategies

• Check it out!

TE pp.F2–F5, F16-F19

Page 567



Blueprints – Graphic Organizers, Thinking Maps

Blueprint for Reading

Blueprint for Writing

© 2005 by Jane Fell Greene, Ed.D. All rights reserved. Published by Sopris West Educational Services.


Scope and SequenceSystematic and Sequential.


Showcase!!!

•Opportunity for Teachers to

refine professional practices

•Average gain of 2.8 GE

•CST gains

•Test Prep is Imbedded!

•Reading Wall



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CMS Language! Team Victor Valley Union School District Cobalt Middle School Presentation October 21, 2009