Purpose :

To create a fail-safe system of literacy so that all students have equal access to a standards based curriculum

Result:

Joyful, independent readers, writers, and content learners!

Literacy islistening, viewing, thinking, expressing through multiple symbol systems, speaking,

reading, and writing.

The Challenge is for

– teachers to move from compliance to commitment and

– students to move from compliance to engagement.

In schools that improve literacy..

1. research based intervention is consistently implemented, monitored, and evaluated.

2. all teachers k-12 consistently teach, model, and practice literacy strategies before, during, and after reading.

Align daily work with reading & thinking expectations of assessment.

Non-fiction reading =non-fiction on assessment

Levels of questions=levels of questions on assessment

Literacy Development Tasks

Primary GradesPhonicsPhonemic awareness

(vocabulary, fluency and comprehension also)

Grades 3 and upVocabularyFluencyComprehension

Community of Learners

Classroom Community

Student Text

Academic safety

Psychological safety

Knowledge, content, vocabulary background

Structure,

Vocabulary

Motivation: choice, clear goals

Strategies, motivation

Relevancy, respect

Literacy enriched Culture Rigor, accessibility

Commitment to Literacy is……

integrated language arts & content print & literacy rich classrooms arts, and technology for accessing, understanding, and

communicating reading to and with students daily students reading independently with accountability writing about reading teaching, modeling, practicing literacy strategies aligning resources with belief about literacy

Science Venn Diagram & Compare and Contrast Paragraph

Intervention: Scope Magazine & Reader’s Handbook

Mathematics Journal

Classroom Libraries

Accountable Independent Reading

Accountability for Independent Reading

Read to in Global Studies

Word Wall in Science

Root words, prefixes, suffixes

First Grade Word Wall

Student Made Word Wall

First Grade Expository Writing

Multiple Symbol Systems to Learn Science Vocabulary

Parent Engagement

Using Literature to Scaffold to Authentic Work

Main idea, supporting details

JHMS Media Center Marketing Books

SLHS Media Center Marketing Books

Literacy Leadership Modeling

Daily Literacy Non-negotiables

Print, literacy rich classroom Use processes of literacy: reading, writing, speaking,

listening, viewing, thinking, expressing through multiple symbol systems

Read to and with students Teach, model, practice strategies of expert readers and

writers Read by themselves with accountability K-1 Phonics and phonemic awareness

Strategies of Expert Readers

Prediction: What is it about? What will happen next?

Visualization: picturing the story

Connection:self, text, world

Questioning: asking questions

Clarification: answering own questions with context clues, pictures, rereading, etc.

Evaluation: thinking before, during, after reading

Strategies

Monitoring comprehension

Recognizing text structure

Summarizing

Using graphic/semantic organizers