Implementing Common Core:

A Focus on Early LiteracyModule- 4

Book Study: Rigorous Reading, Ch. 6

Presenters: LaRae Blomquist, Susie Lapachet, Christina McColley, Jenny Smith

and Patty Tong

March 5, 2015

Debrief Module 3

As a result of the book study on Chapter 4 on collaborative conversations and review of ELD data in January/February, what steps (if any) did you take or did you plan to take at your site?

Outcomes

Participants will:• Understand what it means to

connect reading to writing• Connect high-quality, first-time

instruction to ELD modes of communication

• Explore key areas from administrative lens of The Synced Solution

Connecting the Dots: Give One Get One

Think about the three previous sessions:

1.ELA/ELD Connection2.Text Complexity3.Structuring

Collaborative Conversations

• Consider any personal AH HAs or salient points.

• Record thinking in provided space. • Be prepared to Give One/Get One…

even if it is a question about a session.

Connecting the Dots: Give One Get One

1. ELA/ELD Connection• Navigating the ELD/ELA

matrix• Expanding, emerging,

bridging• Language frames (ELD

#3: offering/supporting opinions)

• Banks of TDQs• ELD walk-through form

Relevance to Administrative Role

• Closing the achievement gap– # of significant sub-groups who do not have

literacy proficiency—specifically served with ELD standards/instructional approach

• Integrated ELD instruction in all content areas

• LCAP goals/site plan

Connecting the Dots: Give One Get One

2. Text Complexity

• Anchor standards to grade-specific

• Text complexity: quantitative, qualitative, reader & task

• Banks of TDQs

Relevance to Administrative Role

• Knowing the “right” questions to ask regarding supplemental text purchases and site use– How does your novel request/use fulfill grade-

level expectations of text complexity? What are the key teaching points?

– Which unit in Synced Solution do you see this text being used in an integrated manner?

Connecting the Dots: Give One Get One

3. Collaborative Conversations•Structures that can support collaborative learning•Connectivity between ELA Speaking/Listening and ELD standards•Walk-Through data

Relevance to Administrative Role

• Teacher observation/evaluation• EL Walk-Through form• High-quality, first-time instruction using

consistent protocols for structured student interaction

• Quality/complexity of student tasks (“planned failure”)

• Reinforcing protocols during staff PD or meetings

Connecting Writing Instruction to Reading Instruction

More Than Personal Connections

How do these pages represent shifts in reading and writing instruction?

What are the implications for a site leader? (e.g. school-wide writing plan)

Reread pp. 123-125

Accessing Complex Texts Requires More Than Personal Connections

• Model before you expect.• Pose questions that require students to

return to the text.• Ask students to provide evidence to

support their opinions and ideas.• Require students to write rhetorically.

Shared Understanding of Terminology

Rhetorical Writing – Academic writing that interprets information for a clear purpose, organization, and intended audience in a logical and persuasive manner (Not to be confused with a particular CCSS writing standard).

RHETORICAL READING = INTERPRETIVE RHETORICAL WRITING = PRODUCTIVE

Determining Where to Start When Accessing Complex Text

Before modeling, TDQs, supporting evidence, and writing rhetorically, we need to ask ourselves:

• What text will I use?• How will I connect reading to writing?”

ANSWER: Analyze for text complexity

NOTE: Text Complexity and Reading Aloud

• K/1st – high-quality, complex text for oral reading comprehension

• 2nd/3rd – high-quality, complex text for all students to access with their own copies

The Day the Crayons Quit

Text Complexity

Quantitative: (e.g., lexile)• Sentence length• Frequency of words• Multi-syllabic

730 LEXILE

Lexile Band for 2nd/3rd Grade:450 – 790

Analyze Text Complexity: Quantitative Think Aloud (2nd Grade)

Quantitative: (e.g., lexile)• Sentence length• Frequency of words• Multi-syllabic

Lexile Band for 2nd/3rd Grade: 730 within 450 – 790

Analyze Text Complexity: Qualitative Think Aloud (2nd Grade)

Analyze Text Complexity: Qualitative Think Aloud (2nd Grade)

• Organization: RL-5 (text structure)

• Narration: RL – 6 (point of view)

• Text Features: capitalized & underlined words

• Graphics: RL – 7 (illustrations & text)

Analyze Text Complexity: Reader & Task Think Aloud (2nd Grade)

Reader & Task• Complexity of task

compared to complexity of quantitative and qualitative demands

Transitioning from Analysis to Instructional Planning

• Read the Analyzing Text Complexity handout.

• Notice the connection between the analysis of the 3 components of Text Complexity to text dependent questions.

Transitioning from Analysis to Instructional Planning

How does the instruction represent Fisher & Frey’s Accessing Complex Text bullets?

• Model before you expect.• Pose questions that require

students to return to the text.• Ask students to provide

evidence to support their opinions and ideas.

• Require students to write rhetorically.

Table/Whole Group Debrief

• What AH-HAs or salient points resonated with you?

• What clarifying questions do you have?

• How might these resources/info be relevant to you as a site administrator?

Setting the Purpose forUpcoming Activities

• Connection to CCSS Collaborative Learning that teachers received

• “Concrete-ify” integrated ELA Common Core instruction for observations, walk-throughs, assessing staff development needs, communicating/correcting writing resource use (e.g., SUTW), and creating school-wide writing plans

Require students to write rhetorically.

From Reading to Writing Instruction

RL 7 – Focus of writing

K-3, 6 Prompt Progression…Tied to Reading AND Writing Standards

1. Read just the reading standards in each dotted box.

2. Underline the key shifts from grade-to-grade.

3. Note the connections with the interpretive ELD standard.

K-3, 6 Prompt Progression…Tied to Reading AND Writing Standards

• How would you summarize the shifts between K-3rd grades?

• Examine the connection to the prompt verbiage at each grade level.

Whole Group Debrief

• If you were planning a school-wide writing event and/or year-long writing plan, how might you use a resource like this with your staff?

• What else would you need to support your school-wide writing efforts?

Deconstructing 2nd Grade Prompt – “I Do”

Materials Needed:• Prompt Handout• 3 Different Colors

of Highlighters

2 nd gr.

Deconstruction of the PromptDirections: Write a paragraph that tells Pink Crayon’s point of view. Use evidence from the letter and the illustrations to support your description of Pink Crayon’s point of view. Explain how the text and illustrations you used support your idea about Pink Crayon. (bullets not included)

Deconstruction of the PromptDirections: Write a paragraph that tells Pink Crayon’s point of view. Use evidence from the letter and the illustrations to support your description of Pink Crayon’s point of view. Explain how the text and illustrations you used support your idea about Pink Crayon.

GREEN = Sentence telling the main topic to address (topic sentence/thesis statement)

Deconstruction of the PromptDirections: Write a paragraph that tells Pink Crayon’s point of view. Use evidence from the letter and the illustrations to support your description of Pink Crayon’s point of view. Explain how the text and illustrations you used support your idea about Pink Crayon.

YELLOW = Sentence asking students for text evidence (“found” in text/source)

Deconstruction of the PromptDirections: Write a paragraph that tells Pink Crayon’s point of view. Use evidence from the letter and the illustrations to support your description of Pink Crayon’s point of view. Explain how the text and illustrations you used support your idea about Pink Crayon.

PINK = Sentence asking student to explain connection between evidence and topic sentence/thesis (student inference/ thinking)

Application

Connecting Prompt with Graphic Organizer

Directions: Write a paragraph that tells Pink Crayon’s point of view. Use evidence from the letter and the illustrations to support your description of Pink Crayon’s point of view. Explain how the text and illustrations you used support your idea about Pink Crayon.

Teacher Modeling Note

• Text structure of The Day the Crayons Quit allows for repeated modeling of writing task using different crayons (“I do,” “We do together,” “You do together”).

• In other writing situations, clone the prompt, use with different texts previously read in order to model and practice before “releasing” students to independently write.

Identifying Topic/Topic Sentence

The topic sentence • introduces the main

idea of the paragraph.

• can often be crafted using prompt language.

• can have the same structure as a thesis statement.

Topic/Topic Sentence – Pink Crayon

PROMPT: Write a paragraph that tells Pink Crayon’s point of view…

Pink Crayon’s point of view isthat he is not used enough because Duncan thinks he is a girls’ color.

Reading/Writing Connection

Consider how the sample TDQs listed on the Analyzing Text Complexity handout prepared students to be able to write a topic sentence like this—especially looking at the RL 2 and RL 6 example questions.

Gathering Text/Illustration Evidence

Evidence • is “found” (e.g., put

your finger on it; show me where…).

• can be text, illustrations, multi-media, and/or text features.

Looking for Text Evidence – “I do”

• Pink Crayon capitalized the words LISTEN HERE, KID, ONCE, GIRLS’, and PLEASE

Looking for Text Evidence – “You do together”

• Pink Crayon capitalized the words LISTEN HERE, KID, ONCE, GIRLS’, and PLEASE

Looking for Illustration Evidence –“I do”

• There is a pink dinosaur with sharp teeth.

Looking for Illustration Evidence – “You do together”

• There is a pink dinosaur with sharp teeth.

Rigorous Reading p. 130

In addition, when students respond to a specific writing prompt that requires that they use evidence from the text, the task becomes text dependent. However, it’s not sufficient for student to simply include quotes from the text. They need to explain the quotes and integrate them in a thoughtful way. As Graff and Birkenstein (2006) note, “[T]he main problem with quotation arises when writers assume that the quotations speak for themselves” (p. 40).

Explaining Evidence

Explanations • Connect evidence to

main idea, topic sentence, or opinion

• Are NOT restatements or paraphrases of evidence.

• Come from student inference and critical thinking.

Explaining Evidence

Importance for “explanation” is to connect the evidence to the topic sentence/main idea or opinion.

Pink Crayon’s point of view is that he is not used enough because Duncan thinks he is a

girls’ color.

Explaining Evidence – “I do”

Pink Crayon’s point of view is that he is not used enough because Duncan thinks he is a

girls’ color.

Pink Crayon capitalized the words LISTEN HERE, KID, ONCE, GIRLS’, and PLEASE

• Capitalized words are important.

• Pink Crayon wants Duncan to listen and not think of him as a girls’ crayon.

Explaining Evidence – “I do”

Pink Crayon’s point of view is that he is not used enough because Duncan thinks he is a

girls’ color.

There is a pink dinosaur with sharp teeth.

• Pink dinosaurs can be scary.

• Pink is not just for princess dresses.

Explaining Evidence –“You do together”

Pink Crayon’s point of view is that he is not used enough because Duncan thinks he is a

girls’ color.

Pink Crayon drew a pink dinosaur, monster, and cowboy. ?

Table/Whole Group Debrief of G.O.

• How did the activity and information presented validate, revise, or add to your understanding of writing instruction?

• How might you use anything learned today about instructing writing and the contents of CCSS Collaborative Learning workshops to determine your next steps as a site leader?

Graphic Organizer Rhetorical Writing

Sample Paragraph – Identifying “Jobs” of Sentences

Which number sentence(s) does the job of a topic sentence?

#1

Sample Paragraph – Identifying “Jobs” of Sentences

Which number sentence(s) does the job of showing evidence?

#2, #5

Sample Paragraph – Identifying “Jobs” of Sentences

Which number sentence(s) does the job of giving an explanation of the evidence?

#3, #4, #6

Using Rubrics for/of Learning

Additional Possible Resources

Modeling Writing Terminology SUTW

Table Debrief

• How did the activities and information presented connect to the ELD modes of communication? High-quality, first time instruction?

• What are your next steps as a site leader?

1

Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral collaborative conversations on a range of social and academic topics.

3Offering and supporting opinions and negotiating with others in communicative exchanges.

5 Listening actively to spoken English in a range of social and academic contexts.

6

Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly and implicitly through language

9Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations on academic topics.

11Supporting own opinions and evaluating others’ opinions in speaking and writing.

Miscellaneous Admin Info RE K/1st Writing Benchmarks

NEXT TIME:• Explain holistic score for K/1st benchmark

writing assessments (how to use and how not to use)

• Holistic vs. analytic; how to end up with a score

• Please BRING WRITING SAMPLES (preferably K/1st benchmark)

CYCLE 1

Reading

Language

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Foundational Skills

CYCLE 3

Reading

Language

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Foundational Skills

CYCLE 2

Reading

Language

Writing

Speaking and Listening

Foundational Skills

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Writing Focus: Narrative, Inform/Explanatory, or Opinion/Argument

Organization: 1 Unit, 3 Cycles, 5 Lessons

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