Citrus: Literacy, Learners & Leaders

1. Citrus: Literacy, Learners & Leaders An Overview Non-negotiable Expectations for Daily Practice With Five Elements of Reading Developed by Kit Humbaugh & Karen Lisa Program Specialists for Language Arts Citrus County Schools, Florida

2. In schools that improve literacy… • Research based intervention is consistently implemented, monitored, and evaluated. • All teachers K-12 consistently teach, model, and practice literacy strategies before, during, and after reading. Citrus County Schools, Florida

3. What Is Literacy? Citrus County Schools defines literacy as 7 processes: listening, viewing, thinking, speaking, reading, writing and expressing through multiple symbol systems. Citrus County Schools, Florida

4. Daily Non-Negotiables K-12 • Have a print rich literacy environment • Use the seven processes of literacy • Read to and with students • Teach, model and practice strategies of expert readers and writers. • Require accountable independent reading. • Instruct phonics and phonemic awareness in K/1, and for others who have not reached mastery. Citrus County Schools, Florida

5. How do these affect me? Citrus County Schools, Florida

6. The Five Components of Reading • Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Comprehension • Vocabulary Citrus County Schools, Florida

7. Phonemic Awareness • The ability to notice, think about, and work with the individual sounds in spoken words. Citrus County Schools, Florida

8. Phonics Phonics instruction teaches children the relationships between the letters of written language and the individual sounds of the spoken language. Citrus County Schools, Florida

9. Fluency Fluency is the ability to read with appropriate speed, with accuracy and with prosody. Fluency is the bridge between the other elements and comprehension. Citrus County Schools, Florida

10. Vocabulary • Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. • This includes oral reading, silent reading, writing, and listening vocabulary. Citrus County Schools, Florida

11. Comprehension • Comprehension is the ability to understand and gain meaning from a written or spoken text. • It is the reason for reading! Citrus County Schools, Florida

12. Strategies of Expert Readers • Prediction: What is it about? What will happen next? • Visualization: Picturing the concept or narrative. • Connection: Making connections to self, to other texts, and to the world. • Questioning: Asking questions, do I understand? Citrus County Schools, Florida

13. Strategies of Expert Readers • Clarification: Answering their own questions with context clues, pictures, rereading, etc • Evaluation: opinions, before, during, and after strategies • Summarization • Use of Graphic Organizers Citrus County Schools, Florida

14. Future modules • Vocabulary • Fluency • Comprehension • Questioning • Reading/Writing Connection • Using Data to Inform Instruction • Print/Literacy Rich Environments Citrus County Schools, Florida

15. Citrus County Literacy, Learners & Leaders We're all in this together! Citrus County Schools, Florida