English Language Arts/ Literacy Six Instructional Shifts focus on Shifts 2 and 3

1. English Language Arts/ Literacy Six Instructional Shifts focus on Shifts 2 and 3

2. Shift 2: Knowledge in the Disciplines Literacy standards (6-12) are predicated on teachers in ELA, social studies, science and technical subjects using their content area expertise to help students meet the particular challenges of reading, writing, speaking, listening and language in their respective fields.

3. Instructional implications • All content area teachers teach literacy in their discipline • Build background knowledge to increase reading skills • Teach different strategies for different types of text • Explicitly teach students how to use text as source of evidence—topic and opinion writing • Teach use of primary and secondary sources

4. Goals of Shift 2 • * School-wide content-area literacy • * Students build content knowledge through reading text and writing about what they read • * Students apply literacy skills with content area texts; including primary and secondary documents • * Teaching of discipline-specific reading and writing strategies vs. a generic list of strategies • * Students read and write for multiple audiences and purposes across disciplines

5. Shift 3: Staircase of text complexity

8. Quick Reference Chart for converting multiple measures into common core grade bands

9. Quantitative Analysis Tools

10. Where do we find texts in the appropriate text complexity band? • We could…. • * Choose from text exemplars found in Appendix B • or… • * Use available resources to determine the text complexity of materials

11. Time to practice… • Review Test Exemplars (Appendix B) • Use online tools and handouts to determine • complexity measures of texts