Literacy Goals and Literacy Goals and Action PlanAction Plan

Literacy Goals and Literacy Goals and Action PlanAction Plan

Goal #1• The Plymouth North community

will demonstrate and develop a school-wide culture that prioritizes and promotes literacy development.

Action Steps• All teachers will display student work.

– Create walkthrough reports– Publicly recognize teachers– Teachers will display work in classroom– Anonymous walkthroughs– Departments will display exemplary work

school wide

Action Steps

• The school will publicly recognize student academic achievement. – PNN segment on Literacy – at least once a

month – Announcement of student achievement on

website– Team will designate peer leader of NHS

member to maintain display case– Librarian will solicit examples of student

achievement for OCM

Action Steps• All teachers will provide timely

feedback on student work. – Departments establish parameters

for timeliness of feedback– Teachers make use of assignment

specific rubrics

Action Steps• Advisories will support literacy

development. – Students will maintain portfolios

within advisories– Advisors will be responsible for

storing portfolios– Current articles and readings based

on student interest will be integrated

Action Steps• The school will visibly promote literacy

development. – Poster contest through art dept. promoting

literacy– Create a schedule for departmental display– Website will be maintained with literacy

information– Teachers will create area in classroom to

display work

Action Steps• All departments will designate

time for content related reading. – Lead teachers and librarian will

provide resources– Teachers will assign time for content

related reading

Action Steps• The school will designate time for silent

sustained reading. – Communicate objectives on first day of

school– Literacy Team will develop guidelines– Teacher/librarian will provide supplementary

materials– Time will be provided for Silent Sustained

Reading

Goal #2• Teachers will consistently

integrate high quality reading, writing and vocabulary instruction to improve all students’ literacy development and content learning.

Action Steps• Each department or team will

provide departmental literacy sharing opportunities. – Departments will meet to share

strategy use and discuss ways to improve or sustain use in their content area

– Communication among teachers

Action Steps• All teachers will participate in at

least two professional development sessions to learn common set of strategies. – “Exercise” survey– Strategy menu

Action Steps• All teachers will model and teach

students the literacy support strategies multiple times to strengthen content literacy and learning. – Literacy menus– Walkthroughs– Report findings/results to Literacy Team and

faculty– Literacy Team will discuss ways to improve

and sustain literacy use in content area classrooms

Action Steps• Each department or team will utilize a

vocabulary strategy and demonstrate it to staff at our professional development meeting. – Literacy menus– Walkthroughs– Report findings/results to Literacy Team and

faculty– Literacy Team will discuss ways to improve

and sustain literacy use in content area classrooms

Action Steps• Each department or team will utilize a

comprehension strategy and demonstrate it to staff at our professional development meeting – Literacy menus– Walkthroughs– Report findings/results to Literacy Team and

faculty– Literacy Team will discuss ways to improve

and sustain literacy use in content area classrooms

Action Steps• Each department or team will utilize a

writing strategy and demonstrate it to staff at our professional development meeting – Literacy menus– Walkthroughs– Report findings/results to Literacy Team and

faculty– Literacy Team will discuss ways to improve

and sustain literacy use in content area classrooms