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ELA Agenda

ELA Agenda. Please seat yourself by grade level tables 2:05-2:15: Welcome/Intro/Reminders 2:15-2:55: Literacy Plan Overview 2:55-3:00: Stand Up and Stretch 3:00-3:15: Thinking Maps Overview 3:15-3:30: Group Task 3:30-3:45: Share and Photo Op 3:45-4:00: Debrief, Q & A, Exit Ticket/Survey.

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ELA Agenda

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  1. ELA Agenda Please seat yourself by grade level tables 2:05-2:15: Welcome/Intro/Reminders 2:15-2:55: Literacy Plan Overview 2:55-3:00: Stand Up and Stretch 3:00-3:15: Thinking Maps Overview 3:15-3:30: Group Task 3:30-3:45: Share and Photo Op 3:45-4:00: Debrief, Q & A, Exit Ticket/Survey

  2. The ELA Wiki, Wiki, Wiki… http://secondary.nrms.wikispaces.net/English+Language+Arts

  3. Literacy Plan Overview

  4. The Vision The NRMPS literacy vision is to develop and support on-going comprehensive literacy expectations for all grades and content areas, K-12. Our goal is to build, refine, and practice the life-long literacy skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, and creating through content and supporting projects in an effort to prepare all students to be college and career ready contributing members of our democratic society.

  5. What Does the NRMS Literacy Model Look like

  6. Text

  7. Text: atangible artifact or document appropriate for students current level of social and intellectual development.

  8. We Believe… • NRMPS believes that text is the primary lens for literacy. • Through the text experience, literacy is engaged via a complete cycle of the reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, and creativity skills inherent in all content standards. • Texts can take a variety of forms, both print and non-print.

  9. books articlesessays paragraphsphotospaintingssculptures raw data primary sources documents journals letters maps charts graphs word problems interviewsspeechesdiagramsmodelsmusiceditorialspolitical cartoons lawspamphlets technical plansartdigital creations blue prints memoirs schematic drawings recipes filmcompound equations symbols

  10. Idea: a thought, mental image, or notion. Value: an idea that is desirable or worthy for its own sake. Ideas + Values = Conceptual Lens

  11. Think out of the boxwhen it comes to selecting text.

  12. READING

  13. “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ~ Ben Franklin

  14. Reading • Are all content teachers experts in teaching reading in their content? • Why is it important for content teachers to be reading teachers? • How have you observed teachers teaching reading in content areas? • What can we do to help?

  15. We Believe… • We believe with support, practice, and daily reading opportunities, both students and teachers can become partners in teaching and learning reading in the content areas.

  16. WRITING

  17. Writing • Are all content teachers experts in teaching writing in their content? • Why is it important for content teachers to be writing teachers? • How have you observed teachers teaching writing in content areas? • What can we do to help?

  18. We Believe… • Writing clarifies and refines thinking. • For assessing student understanding, writing is a non-negotiable. • Students need opportunities to write daily. • Students need coaching and feedback on creating and refining a writing process in each content area. • The District Writing Plan outlines specific assignments that should be included at each grade level from various content areas.

  19. NRMS Digital Writing Support Pieces • Write to Learn • Writing Coach • Essay Scorer

  20. Speaking

  21. Speaking The ability to express and articulate thoughts and ideas and engage in dialogue is an essential component of the Common Core State Standards and a key life-long learning skill.

  22. Speaking • Do we give students opportunities to practice speaking skills in all content areas? • In what ways have you observed students practicing speaking skills?

  23. We believe… Through the discussion and exchange of ideas, students and teachers are able to: • learn to agree and disagree in a civil fashion. • examine and clarify various perspectives. • create new meaning. • articulate complex cognitive and metacognitive information, observations, and thought.

  24. Listening

  25. Listening • What did you say? • The ability to listen and think deeply about what you hear is a crucial literacy skill. • In what ways have you observed students practicing active listening?

  26. We Believe… If you are going to survive in the 21st Century, filtering all the noise is going to save your life.

  27. Thinking

  28. Thinking WRITING READING SPEAKING LISTENING THINKING

  29. Thinking • Thinking has been defined as the “…ability to explain and manipulate complex systems”(Roberts and Billings) • Teaching students to think creatively and critically is the essential function of literacy.

  30. We Believe… We believe thinking can be taught with frequent and deliberate practice.

  31. CREATING

  32. Creativity Tools in NRMS

  33. We Believe… Creating well-defined projects, developed for authentic audiences, generates opportunities to: • demonstrate and assess (formative, benchmark, summative) mastery of standards, • practice life-long learning and sophisticated literacy skills.

  34. Kick Starting Creativity • Graduation Project • The District Writing Plan • Transition Projects • STEM Projects • Problem-Based Learning • Project-Based Learning • Performance Tasks • Math Practice Standards • Paideia Coached Project • Inquiry Projects

  35. Professional Development Curriculum and Instruction is prepared to assist schools in such areas such as: • Teaching and scaffolding text • Writing across the curriculum • Thinking Maps • Building content vocabulary • Speaking, listening and thinking • Structured literacy blocks • The Literacy Design Collaborative • …and much more!

  36. NRMS: Let’s stop talkingabout Literacy….

  37. Thinking Maps – A Review NRMPS Early Release Day September 2013

  38. Circle Map: Defining in Context Key Words Associated with Circle Maps: Context, List, Define, Brainstorm, Associate, Generate

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