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Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and Coaching Panel

Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and Coaching Panel. Moderated by Sharon Harper Southeast CORE Director. Welcome to our Panelists . Monty Wilson, Ed.S . Instructional Supervisor , Wilson County Schools Lisa Coons Middle School Coordinator, Sumner County Schools

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Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and Coaching Panel

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  1. Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and Coaching Panel Moderated by Sharon Harper Southeast CORE Director

  2. Welcome to our Panelists Monty Wilson, Ed.S. InstructionalSupervisor, Wilson County Schools Lisa Coons Middle School Coordinator, Sumner County Schools Linda Kennard, Ed.D. Director, Curriculum & Instruction, Shelby County Schools

  3. Today our panelists will be discussing the following three questions: • How are you approaching literacy across subject areas? • How are your leveraging the Tennessee writing assessment? • How are you ensuring students are reading complex texts? And additionally, how are you all supporting students struggling with text complexity?

  4. How are you supporting literacy across subject areas? Monty Wilson Instructional Supervisor, Wilson County Schools

  5. Wilson County Professional Development Plan for Common Core Literacy 2012 (Summer) –ELA teachers (full day), SS teachers (1/2 day), and PE teachers (1/2) day. 2013 (Spring) – CTE teachers (1/2 day) 2013 (Summer) – Fine Art teachers (1/2 day) and Science teachers (1/2 day)

  6. ELA Initial Focus • Incorporating non-fiction to accompany literature • Transitioning writing assignments from “free-response” to “text based” • Selection and use of complex texts using qualitativeand quantitative measures. • Incorporating more analyses of multiple texts

  7. PE Initial Focus • Why literacy is a school-wide initiative • How PE teachers can impact student literacy • Writing task – What are they? How were they created? • Text-based evidence • How to grade a student’s essay

  8. Health/Wellness Literacy Task(Argumentation – Task 9) After reading “New Guidelines Planned on School Vending Machines,” write a report that examines why school vending machine laws were modified and the effects of the legislative change. What conclusions or implications can you draw? Support your discussion with evidence from your research.

  9. SS and CTE Initial Focus • Why literacy is a school-wide initiative • How SS/CTE teachers can impact student literacy • Writing task – What are they? How do we create them? (Focus on LDC’s Template Tasks) • Text-based evidence • How to grade a student’s essay

  10. Literacy Focus for all Content Areas in 6-12(Mathematics excluded due to CRAs) • ½ Day Training on Common Core (Included participants completing a Literacy Task for Fine Arts) • 9 hours of PLC time by course/cluster to create school-level Literacy Tasks which included … • Two different informational texts to read • One required literacy task for each article (included summarizing, formulating central idea, identifying textual evidence to support central idea, Tier-2 vocabulary questions with textual evidence) • Analytical writing assignment which required a comparison of the two texts

  11. Resources Literacy Design Collaborative Template Tasks PARCC Model Content Frameworks Appendix B Common Core Standards Common Core Coaches and Trained Teachers Holistic Rubrics Samples Student Work District Created Literacy Templates Institute for Learning

  12. Our Hope … Increased Student Literacy

  13. How are your leveraging the Tennessee writing assessment? Lisa Coons Middle School Coordinator, Sumner County Schools

  14. 2012-13 Writing Work: Phase One

  15. Phase One Resources

  16. 2012-13 Writing Work: Phase Two

  17. Phase Two Resources

  18. 2013-14 Writing Work

  19. 2013-14 Resources

  20. How are you ensuring students are reading complex texts? And additionally, how are you all supporting students struggling with text complexity? Linda Kennard, Ed.D. Director, Curriculum & Instruction, Shelby County Schools

  21. ELA/Literacy Common Core PanelTackling Text Complexity in Shelby County Schools Dr. Linda Kennard Director of Curriculum & Instruction

  22. How are we ensuring that students are reading complex texts? • Align curriculum maps with the PARCC Model Content Frameworks • Provide teachers with Common Core aligned resources • Adopted texts • Supplementary materials

  23. Research Project PARCC Framework Reading Complex Text Writing to Texts QUARTERS

  24. Reading Complex Text Many of the short texts are from the Reading Text Book An extended text is in addition to the shorter texts You can learn more from the CCSS Appendix B Please note That there will be literature and informational short text each nine weeks.

  25. Writing to Texts Students must be writing about what they are reading if they are going to be ready for the PARCC assessments that begin in 2014-2015. For more information on the types of writing and samples, see CCSS Appendix C

  26. Research Project PARCC Planning Guide Integrate knowledge from sources when composing One Research Project each nine weeks. Integrate knowledge from your Extended Text with science and or social studies when writing.

  27. Reading Complex Texts Research Project Writing to Text

  28. SCS Curriculum Maphttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php Weeks 1-3 Reading Complex Text Content CCSS SPIs I Can.. What steps must be taken to cite evidence from the text when making a point or stating a claim? What steps must be taken when formulating a summary? How does a narrator’s point of view affect the meaning of a story?

  29. SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – 5th Short text selections - Literature Thunder Rose Island of the Blue Dolphin Inside Out Short text selections - Informational Satchel Paige Shutting Out the Sky Passage to Freedom Extended text The Secret Garden

  30. SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – ENG II ExtendedText: Night, by Elie Wiesel Short Stories: • There Will Come Soft Rains • By the Waters of Babylon • The Masque of the Red Death Informational Text • Speech:Keep Memory Alive – EXEMPLAR • “The Babylon Captivity”

  31. How we are supporting students struggling with text complexity? Professional Development is ongoing, sustained, and job embedded TNCore Coaches have created Seven Common Core Study Groups Modules Open District web site that provides curriculum maps, pacing guides, and PARCC planning guides Password protected (Weebly) for K-5 resources teacher, district, and external links.

  32. Common Core Study Groupshttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ccsg.php

  33. English Language Artshttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php

  34. English Language Arts- Elementarywww.scselementaryliteracy.weebly.com

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