Literacy_Reading

GOAL 1: By the beginning of April (Q4) 2014, students will routinely use age and content appropriate literacy strategies to engage with different types of texts, as measured by student feedback and quantitative data. GOAL 2: By May 2014, all students will spend the majority of class time engaged in quality reading, writing, and discussion in all core classes every day as measured by walk throughs. GOAL 3: By the end of the 2013-2014, all departments and grade level course content and literacy development, builds by grade level, as defined by the CCSS and measured by curriculum maps. = MARZANO'S RESEARCH = LINKS FOR THE HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES

= A FEW GUIDING DOCUMENTS FOR DETERMINING AGREEMENTS =

Richard Allington's Guidance:

 * [|CIERA'S IMPROVING READING COMPREHENSION]
 * RICHARD ALLINGTON'S SITE ABOUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS, INCLUDING A LINK TO POWER POINT TO RTI: [|DR. ALLINGTON]
 * [|The 6 Ts of Effective Elementary Literacy Instruction]
 * [|Every Child, Every Day]

Thoughts from Other Literacy Experts
= Instructional Structures for Workshop: = [|Take a peek into a readers workshop] (scroll down to video)
 * [|On the Mark Teaching]: A great page with lots of links to articles about reading and writing
 * [|Interactive Read Alouds]: Read alouds are not just for the elementary classroom! This article explains what it takes to have a highly effective think aloud.
 * [|Fisher and Frey] On this page you'll find links to many of their articles about literacy. The topics are far ranging, but all research based: student collaboration, feedback, modeling, close reading, vocabulary instruction, formative assessments, shared reading and many more.

[|Overview of readers workshop (focus -- elementary; applicable to all)]
>> [|A book club discussion] = Using Multiple Texts as a Possible Strategy =
 * Mini-lesson
 * [|Mini lesson and CCSS and opinion writing]
 * Teacher modeling: A teacher doing a think aloud
 * Mentor text
 * Guided Practice
 * Student talk/discourse
 * [|Lucy Calkins explains how to get students ready for a book club discussion]
 * [|Aimed at K-2, this video shows how a teachers teaches student "accountable talk"]
 * [|Fostering book discussions -- an Annenberg video]
 * [|Boys discuss nonfiction]
 * Work time for reading, writing, discussing, researching
 * [|One teacher's poster about independent reading time]
 * A wiki on independent reading time
 * [|Why reading workshop is critical for high school!]AND [|Another reason choice and workshop is important for HS]
 * ConferringPartner talk: [|Watch the students in partnership] [|Partnership: 2 girls reading Old Yeller]
 * [|A K-2 conference]
 * From TC, a MS reading conference-- applicable to all grades
 * [|A Teacher's College conference] (note: this is a writing conference, grades 3 - 5, but might be helpful to think about conferences in general)
 * Read aloud (see above for Interactive Read Alouds)
 * Reflection/debrief
 * Gradual release of responsibility
 * Even though many of the examples refer to middle and high school, the concepts are relevant to all. There is a video of Debbie Miller, author of Reading with Meaning, that is specific to elementary: GRR wiki
 * Even though many of the examples refer to middle and high school, the concepts are relevant to all. There is a video of Debbie Miller, author of Reading with Meaning, that is specific to elementary: GRR wiki

Text sets: What about differentiation as a key strategy? How about making sure that every student can access print that is at his/her level?


 * [|Consider TEXT SETS!]
 * [|Digital text sets may be the key]
 * [|Text sets even work in 1st grade!]
 * [|Students can even create text sets.]
 * And here are more ideas: [[file:LauraRobbMultipleTexts[1].pdf]]

Articles or chapters
[|Chapter from Developing Readers in the Disciplines]

The different cognitive pulls with expository and narrative text: Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy: [|Alliance for Excellent Education] Perfection Learning's List of Research Based Reading Strategies: [|White Paper]

Lists of strategies
[|Classroom Strategies: Before, During, After] [|40 Best-Practice Instructional Activities] [|More Reading Strategies] [|Doug Buehl's thoughts]

Other instructional strategies:
[|Question the author] [|Reciprocal Teaching] [|Annotating text] [|Self-Questioning]

[|Socratic seminar: article from Authentic Education], [|Teaching Channel: Socratic Seminar]

[|Graphic organizers for reading comprehension] Debates about text [|A TC video about preparing students to debate (Focus 3-5 but applicable to all)]