2nd Semester Ms Sr Training

Transferring Strategic Reading Practices to

Second SemesterPresented by:

Karen Newcomb

With help from:

Randi Smith,

Wayne Motley, and

Linda Andersen

Housekeeping

• Breakfast

• Attendance for Recertification Points

• Restrooms

• Lunch

Welcome

• Introduction of Special Guest (Linda Andersen)

SHOWCASEFOCUS LESSON

STUDENT TEAM LITERATURE/WRITING

SELF-SELECTED READING & CENTER ACTIVITIES

Using the Four Components with the Sixth Grade Text

Showcase• How do I find reading showcases for the stories in my 6th grade text?• Let your text work for

you.

Go By Themes (A2-A3)• Moments of Truth

• The People You’ll Meet

• The Heart of the Matter

• Forms of Fiction

• Biography/Autobiography: Unforgettable Personalities

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling

• Matilda by Roald Dahl

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Jim Aylesworth

• The Princess Mouse by Aaron Shepard

• Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House) by William Anderson

*Look in your packet for showcases I googled, yet another method.

Use the “For Independent Reading” Sections

• Page 15

• Page 26

• Page 38

Use Texts From Enhanced Classroom Library

• We will explore this method when we discuss:

Self-Selected Reading

Using Poetry in Showcases

• How does a Showcase with poetry differ from a Showcase with fiction and non-fiction literature.

• Thoughts and modeling from Wayne Motley.

Focus Lesson

• The method in which you determine these does not change.

• They are determined from SOL’s, identified student needs, and/or text focus.

• Don’t forget: A good focus lesson always involves teacher modeling, guided practice, and a chance for independent practice.

Student Team Literature

• Let’s look at a week in the life of Student Team Literature where we substitute Strategic Reading texts with a text from our literature book.

• Remember: You may also do the same with a different novel, play, or an SR text you were unable to use first semester.

• Look in Your Packet for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Weekly Plan (sample)--Blank and Completed.

• Now look for When I Was Young in the Mountains and The Pearl of Great Price.

from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Vocabulary

• odious• row• wended• expectorant• adherent• pariah• gaudy

www.twainquotes.com/A.html

Look in Your Packet for the Tom Sawyer Discussion Written Response Questions.

Find the Venn Diagram.

The Nuts and Bolts of Adding to Your Existing Library

• Components• Ways to Search• Barnes and Noble• Teacher Educator Cards• A Chance to Shop

Look in Your Packet for the Self-Selected Classroom Library Worksheet.

LUNCH12:00 – 1:00

Questions?

Virginia Standards of Learning for Writing in Grade 6

• 6.6 The student will write narratives, descriptions, and explanations.

• Use a variety of planning strategies to generate and organize ideas.


• Establish central idea, organization, elaboration, and unity.• Select vocabulary and information to enhance the central idea, tone, and voice.• Expand and embed ideas by using modifiers, standard coordination, and subordination in complete sentences.• Revise writing for clarity.


• 6.7 The student will edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and sentence structure.

• Use a variety of graphic organizers, including sentence diagrams, to analyze and improve sentence formation and paragraph structure.


• Use subject-verb agreement with intervening phrases and clauses.

• Use pronoun-antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns.

• Maintain consistent tense inflections across paragraphs.

• Choose adverbs to describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

• Use correct spelling for frequently used words.

Look in Your Packet for the Writing Plan

Sample (Blank and

Completed)

The Writing Assignment

• Look in your packet for the Tom Sawyer Writing Assignment—blank and completed.

Please find the Writing Fix handout from Tamara Turnbeaugh on tone and the Painting with More Colorful Transitions… sheet.

Using Meaningful Sentences to Enhance Student Writing in

Written Expression

More Best Practices

Wayne – Strategies outside the Showcase

Linda – Team Building

Writing Sample FCA’s Intro. & Conclusions (20)

Strategic Reading Training Supporting Details (60)February 2007 Complete Sentences (20)

My older siblings say being a teenager is going to be the best years of my life, but its very difficult. It is difficult being a teenager today because of peer pressure, age limits, and baby-sitting.

One reason being a teenager is difficult because of the age limits you have to be to do and buy certain things. When ever we need to buy something like a gun, we have to be twenty-one and older to buy it. Another one is we have to be 18 and older to smoke. Being a teenager is worser than I thought. The second reason being a teenager is hard is because of baby-sitting. When we can’t do something because we have to babysit. A friends calls and ask me to go to the game and I tell her okay. So now I have plans for the weekend. Then my parents decide to go somewhere and now I gotta call my friend up telling her I’m baby-sitting, can’t make it. I’m always baby-sitting which I don’t like doing because I’m a teenager. Last reason being a teen is hard, is because of peer pressure. Doing things I know I’m not supposed to do. My friend is smoking around me and they ask me to smoke with them. I smoke the Port just to be friends with them. I go home and think about what I just did. Peer pressure is pretty hard to say no to when you have nothing else to say.

On the other hand being a teen on week days its aced. We do everything else fine, but peer pressure, age limits, and baby-sitting are the difficulties parts doing on the weekends.

Writing Sample FCA’s: Intro. & Conclusions (20)Strategic Reading Training Supporting Details (60)February 2007 Complete Sentences (20)

My older siblings, all three of my adult brothers, say being a teenager is going to be the best years of my life, but its very difficult to believe. It is difficult being a teenager today because of peer pressure, age limits, and baby-sitting.

One reason being a teenager is difficult because of the age limits you have to be to do and buy certain things. When ever we need to buy something like a gun, we have to be twenty-one and older to buy it. Another one is we have to be 18 and older to smoke. Being a teenager is worser, (use thesaurus) shoddier than I thought because of this age discrimination. The second reason being a teenager is hard is because of baby-sitting. When we can’t do something because we have to babysit. A friends calls and ask me to go to the game and I tell her okay. So now I have plans for the weekend. Then my parents decide to go somewhere and now I gotta call my friend up telling her I’m baby-sitting, can’t make it. I’m always baby-sitting which I don’t like doing because I’m a teenager. (The) L(l)ast reason being a teen is hard, (no comma) is because of friends using peer pressure to convince me to do things I know are wrong. Doing things I know I’m not supposed to do. My friend is smoking around me and they ask me to smoke with them. I smoke the Port just to be friends with them. I go home and think about what I just did. Peer pressure is pretty hard to say no to when you have nothing else to say.

On the other hand being a teen on week days its aced. We do everything else fine, but peer pressure, age limits, and baby-sitting are the difficulties parts doing on the weekends.

Choose two other people to work with and try your hand enhancing this piece of student writing using meaningful sentences.

Practice Makes Perfect

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