Making Thinking Visible: Literacy, CTAE, and CCGPS

Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent“Making Education Work for All Georgians”www.gadoe.org

Making Thinking Visible: Literacy, CTAE, and CCGPS

Daniel Rock, Education Program Specialist, Georgia Department of

Education

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Workshop Materials

http://literacyccgps.wikispaces.com/Click on “Workshop and Presentation Material”

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Sentence Starters

Write three sentences. In each sentence use two of the words below until all words are used.

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Complex Text Academic Vocabulary

College and Career Ready

(Your course name)Example: Nursing

Strategies Common Core Shifts


Key Questions

• What are the expectations of the Common Core standards for CTAE classes?

• What tools are available to help me improve literacy skills?

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Learning Targets

• I can explain the key shifts of the Common Core GPS.

• I can use reciprocal teaching and other strategies to help students access complex text.

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Reading Study Summary

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…the three big shifts

• Building content knowledge through (reading) rich nonfiction

• Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in evidence from the text, both literary and informational.

• Regular practice with complex text and its academic language.

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Reciprocal Teaching

Predicting

Clarifying

Questioning

Visualizing

SummarizingStudents take the role of teacher by learning and teaching these skills.

What is it?


Reciprocal Teaching

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Teacher explicitly teaches strategies.

Students take turns practicing strategies independently and in groups with text or

media.

Students rotate through the roles.

Students share and compare responses within small groups.

Students collaboratively

answer their own questions.

Students share best questions and

answers with class.

Students learn to predict, question,

clarify, and summarize independently.


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Each member of group has a role


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Instructions for Reciprocal Teaching Activity

1. Assign everyone in your group one of the reciprocal teaching roles. More than one person can have the same role.

2. Read the first paragraph from Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass and American

3. Using the bookmark, complete your role: ask a question, make a prediction, summarize…Write your response on a Post-it note and post it on the chart paper in the appropriate box.

4. Students answer each other’s questions and comment on responses.

5. Students repeat this process as they complete the assigned reading.

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Complete Your Role and Share Responses on Sticky-note/Chart

Paper

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Where Can I Find More Strategies Like This?

Literacy Wiki:http://literacyccgps.wikispaces.com/

Georgiastandards.org:https://www.georgiastandards.org/

CommonCore/Pages/CCGPS_Literacy.aspx

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For more information--

• Daniel Rock, [email protected] • Gilda Lyon, [email protected]

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Documents

Making Thinking Visible: Literacy, CTAE, and CCGPS