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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

Overview of Project So FarList of Strategies Handout

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Together we can…

Project Goals

1. Increase teacher knowledge of the common core standards

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

Project Goals5. Increase student knowledge and

use of research‐based strategies

• Teachers expected to combine multiple strategies during instruction.

Interviews

By grade level

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?


grade science?




grade science?



Core Content Units and Standards

On Laptops(Curriculum Documents)

Overview of Materials List

See Handout

Sample Planning Connections Between Language Arts and the Social Studies

See Handout

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


Planning Tool—Narrative Text and Science


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)



Planning Tool—Informational Text and Scocial Studies


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


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)



Time for Teacher Planning

• Goal: Use the materials you have been provided throughout this year to support incorporating (purposeful) informational text during your instruction.

Planning ToolELA Standards Text/Source Content Unit Strategies Assessment

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