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Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy

Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy. A resource for the critical elements of curricula and instruction for children birth through grade 12. www.ksde.org/literacy. Activating Prior Knowledge. What Is Literacy ? With an elbow partner, take 3 minutes to craft a definition of literacy.

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Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy

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  1. Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy A resource for the critical elements of curricula and instruction for children birth through grade 12. • www.ksde.org/literacy

  2. Activating Prior Knowledge What Is Literacy? With an elbow partner, take 3 minutes to craft a definition of literacy.

  3. Discussion What Is Literacy? What ISN’TLiteracy?

  4. Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy A resource for the critical elements of curricula and instruction for children birth through grade 12. • www.ksde.org/literacy

  5. The Need . . . • Districts, schools, administrators, teachers, and parents want more guidance and information regarding literacy instruction. • www.ksde.org/literacy

  6. Kansas State Department of Education • committed to developing a statewide literacy framework that supports the needs of the educators and parents in Kansas. • created an internal workgroup at KSDE to begin researching and developing the Sunflower Literacy Project.

  7. Development Timeline • Synthesized available research in the Kansas Sunflower Literacy Project (Fall 2010). • Secured a Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy grant from USDE to assist in writing the statewide literacy plan (Fall 2010). • Created a state literacy team to guide the development (Winter 2010/11).

  8. Development Timeline (cont.) • Recruited literacy experts to refine the content based on research (Fall 2011). • Revised and expanded the Sunflower Literacy Project into the Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy (KGLL).

  9. Development Timeline (cont.) • Invited feedback from educators • State Literacy Team • Focus Group • Public Comment (Spring 2012). • Revised documents based on feedback from all groups (Spring 2012).

  10. Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy The Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy is a comprehensive cross-curricular literacy guide to advance learning from birth through grade 12. www.ksde.org/literacy

  11. Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy Documents created: Birth – Five Years of Age: Language, Listening, Speaking; Foundations of Reading; Foundations of Writing Kindergarten – Grade 5: Reading (Informational Text, Literature, Foundational Skills, Interventions); Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language Grades 6-12: Reading (Informational Text, Literature, Interventions); Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language

  12. KGLL Connections • Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy (KGLL) enhances and supports content in the Early Learning Standards (Birth – Five Years of Age). • KGLL aligns with the Kansas Common Core Standards (KCCS). • KGLL enhances and supports teachers with the KCCS.

  13. Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy A resource for the critical elements of curricula and instruction for children birth through grade 12. • www.ksde.org/literacy

  14. KGLL Activity In small, grade-band-alike groups: • Select one (or more) section(s) of the KGLL to examine (e.g., Language, Reading Informational, Writing, Reading Literature, Speaking & Listening, etc.) • Discuss the following questions: • What do you notice and appreciate about the KGLL? • How might the KGLL be used? • What elements listed in the KGLL do you recognize as already in place in your building/district? • What elements listed in the KGLL appear to be new to your building/district?

  15. Contacts Kris Shaw Suzy Oertel Visit: www.ksde.org/literacy (785) 296-5060soertel@ksde.org (785) 296-4926kshaw@ksde.org

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