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NEW Balanced Literacy Program K-2

NEW Balanced Literacy Program K-2. Glastonbury Public Schools 2009. Mission for Literacy.

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NEW Balanced Literacy Program K-2

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  1. NEWBalanced Literacy ProgramK-2 Glastonbury Public Schools 2009

  2. Mission for Literacy • Our mission is to create independent readers, competent writers, discriminating viewers, articulate speakers, active listeners, and critical thinkers. Literacy instruction is centered on the goal of helping students learn to read and write and to develop a lifelong love of reading. To accomplish this goal, the literacy program is designed around a balanced approach to instruction that responds to the strengths and needs of our students.

  3. Guiding Principles Content • Oral Language Development • Word Identification • Vocabulary • Comprehension • Fluency • Use of print and non-print text • Writing Ongoing Assessment Delivery of Instruction • Reading and writing aloud • Shared reading and writing • Guided reading and writing • Interactive reading and writing • Independent reading and writing LiterateEnvironment Integration with all content areas High expectations

  4. A Commitment to Instructional Models: • Readers’ Workshop • Writers’ Workshop

  5. What We Teach • Glastonbury’s “Grade Level Expectations for Language Arts” (GLEs) www.glastonburyus.org • Scope of Skills www.glastonburyus.org • Units of Study (“Atlas Rubicon” for teachers) • To provide a framework and a sequence for instruction • To provide the opportunities for other subject areas to integrate with literacy instruction

  6. How We Teach New Resources: Making Meaning Being a Writer Fountas and Pinnell Word Study Supports: Phonics Lessons Manuals and Manipulatives Schoolwide Bookrooms with Leveled Texts Independent reading libraries in every classroom

  7. Early Literacy: Assessment Practices • A “Universal Screening”calendar for language arts (assessments for every student) • Formative, curriculum-based assessments to measure and monitor growth in all areas of literacy.

  8. Consistent District Wide Plan for Literacy Intervention • Common assessment practices in all schools to identify student needs • Common “cut-offs” – across schools – for intervention

  9. How the LARTs help • Administration and tracking of literacy assessments • Literacy and data coaching • Implementation of best practices in literacy and state of the art resources, delivery models, and training • Modeling of expert literacy lessons to help teachers differentiate early literacy instruction • Mentoring of new teachers • Leadership of school based literacy teams to ensure communication between all stake holders regarding early literacy initiatives. • Work directly with individual students and small groups • Monitor and provide consistency across all elementary schools and vertical articulation of literacy practices within individual schools.

  10. For more information or questions…. • www.glastonburyus.org • Curriculum~Language Arts~K-5 Catherine Buchholz Director of Language Arts K-12 buchholzc@glastonburyus.org 652-7967

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