Accelerates Academic Vocabulary
Develops Transferable Skills
A Roadmap to Academic Success
CORNERSTONE & KEYSTONE
A Roadmap to Academic Success:A well-organized, yet easy-to-use roadmap of skills is essential to helping your students achieve success. The step-by-step lesson plan and built-in strategies for differentiated instruction ensures that every learner gets the support he or she needs to achieve long term academic success.
CORNERSTONE & KEYSTONE
UNIT INTRODUCTION
CORNERSOTNE KEYSTONE
Big Question Content summary Readings Listening and
speaking Writing Quick write What do you know
about…? Your stories about…?
Big Question Content summary Readings Listening and
speaking Writing Quick write
PREPARE TO READ
CORNERSTONE KEYSTONE
Vocabulary Key words Academic words Word analysis and
fluency Phonics and
fluency Words in conext Make
connections
Vocabulary Key words Literary words Academic words Word study
The Big Question Build Background Reading strategy
READING
CORNERSTONE KEYSTONE
Before reading Kind of text Big Question Reading strategy
During the reading Check up Think it over Reading strategy
Before reading Kind of text Set purpose for
reading During the
reading Before you go on Literary check
Highlited words are NOT vocabulary
AFTER READING
CORNERSTONE KEYSTONE
Comprehension Learning strategy Extension
Grammar & writing
Review and practice Comprehension Reader’s theater Dramatic reading In your own words Discussion Response to
literature Read for fluency Extension
Grammar & writing
FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTUREby Howard Gardner
The Five Minds are
competencies which
young people and
the society need in
the twenty first
century going
forward.
FIVE MINDS FOR THE FUTUREby Howard Gardner
Disciplined Mind
Synthesizing Mind
Creative Mind
Respectful Mind
Ethical Mind
DISCIPLINED MINDThe term disciplinary thinking has three
connotations of the English word discipline.
1. Practice to get disciplinary muscle.2. Master the major ways of thinking.
Different from subjet matter Things which you just can’t pass on Poorly disciplined mind: look through one
discipline
3. Become an expert in at least one thing.
Arthur Rubinstein – famous pianist
SYNTHESIZING MIND Criteria for deciding what to pay
attention to and what to ignore.Too much information on internet, etc.
Put information together in ways which cohere, which make sense for you.
Has to be transmittable to other people.Mind mapsStoriesFormulasChartsEtc.
CREATIVE MIND You cannot be creative unless you have
mastered at least one discipline, art or craft.
Cognitive science teaches us that on the average, it takes about ten years to master a craft.
CREATIVITY
EXPERT
PERSONALITY JUDGEMENT
OF THE FIELD
RESPECTFUL MIND It is recognizing that the
world is composed of people who look different, think differently, have different belief and value systems, and that we can no longer be hermits and live in complete isolation.
This process begins with birth and at home.
ETHICAL MIND
Involves a higher level of abstraction.
Being in the world involves a higher level of thinking.
GOOD WORK PROJECT
ETHICAL
EXCELLENCE
ENGAGEMENT