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Keys to Improving Student Performance

Keys to Improving Student Performance. Coordinated Effort Writing as Thinking Strategic Teaching Focus Student Engagement and Responsibility Use the Data Wisely. Can’t read the passage Didn’t read passage for purpose Question was difficult Vocabulary How to get started

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Keys to Improving Student Performance

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  1. Keys to ImprovingStudent Performance • Coordinated Effort • Writing as Thinking • Strategic Teaching Focus • Student Engagement and Responsibility • Use the Data Wisely

  2. Can’t read the passage • Didn’t read passage for purpose • Question was difficult • Vocabulary • How to get started • Plan vs. on-demand writing • Endurance reading/writing • Lack of models • Richer more complex text • Rigor in our questions

  3. Lesson With Students

  4. The State of Massachusetts wants students to… Read carefully and thoughtfully Write to show deep understanding Like a Lawyer: Use specific details and evidence from a passage to support ideas Explain ideas Write a lot!

  5. Previewing before you read: What should you look at? Title, blurb, genre? Pictures and captions? Character lists? Text boxes? Section Headings? Bold words? How many paragraphs, lines? Questions at end? What kind?

  6. Previewing a Story 1. What genre? Fiction or non-fiction 2. What was the title? 3. What was the story kind-of about? 4. There were 4 pictures. What did they show? Describe as many as you can. 5. What is a question that you expect to be asked? Or what was asked? Other questions... Who was in the story? Where? How many paragraphs was it?

  7. Understanding Vocabulary: Using context and pictures Because it used nuclear power it was twice as fast and could stay under water longer. nuclear submarine Before nuclear power, submarines ran on electric power. diesel fuel Before nuclear power, submarines used diesel fuel when on the surface. cruising It was cruising along the surface. ice sheet, iceberg There was a thick ice sheet and many icebergs at the North Pole.

  8. Understanding Vocabulary: Using context and pictures splot The paint made a big orange splot. business He went about his business. explosion There was an explosion of color. steam shovel We used a steam shovel to dig up the ground. hammock He laid in a hammock between two trees. He’s popped his cork, flipped his wig, blown his stack, and dropped his stopper.

  9. Mark it up! Crazy Artist Game

  10. The Look Back Game

  11. Writing a Great Answer • Turn the Question Around Quickly • Plan it a little • Add lots of supporting details from the passage and explain the details • Fill the box (write small)

  12. What do these responses have in common?

  13. This response is a clear, complete, and accurate explanation of how the big orange splot causes the neighborhood to change... The closing sentence does not add any information to support understanding. Important details are included.

  14. 14 lines with 6–7 words per line! FILL THE BOX! USE SPECIFIC DETAILS! BUDGET YOUR SPACE!

  15. Correct but no details to explain why…

  16. Incorrect score 0

  17. Milton and the Snow Storm

  18. The Seed

  19. A Quick Preview What should you look at? Title, blurb, genre? Pictures and captions? Sections? Bold words? How long is it? Questions at end?

  20. Vocabulary braid His once dark braid had turned the color of new-fallen snow. successor It was time to choose a successor. heirs He felt wealth and power made his heirs lazy. transplant Others were transplanting their plants into new containers. magnificent He was seated on a magnificent throne. porcelain bowl She gave him a beautiful porcelain bowl. sprout Your seeds would not sprout.

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