Module 2: Engaging Students in the Standard

2. Module 2: Engaging Students in the Standard

3. Engaging Students in the Standard • Purpose • Understand the implications of the writing standards across the curriculum • Outcome • Summarize the application of each text type within content areas and grade bands • Materials • Chart paper • Definitions of the Standards’ Three Text Types • Progression of a Standard • Moving Forward recording sheets • Large Post-It Notes

4. Engaging Students in the Standard • Session Plan • Watch • Examine the definitions of the text types (“Read and Connect”) • Share • Implications of each text type across content areas (“Jigsaw for Learning”) • Discuss • Build “Matchbox Summary” to capture all thinking • Wrap Up • Redistribute summaries and reflect on connections

5. Engaging Students in the Standard Watch: The implications across content areas Standard 4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.

6. Engaging Students in the Standard Watch: The implications across content areas “Read and Connect” • Work in trios. Each trio reads Definitions of the Standards’ Three Text Types. • Stop after each section and take turns summarizing and commenting. • How do you connect this text to Standard 4?

7. Engaging Students in the Standard Share: Jigsaw to Learn Information • Table groups number off 1-6 1= Argument K-5 2 = Argument 6-12 3 = Explanatory K-5 4 = Explanatory 6-12 5 = Narrative K-5 6 = Narrative 6-12

8. Engaging Students in the Standard Share: Jigsaw to Learn Information • Meet in your expert group • Choose a partner and examine the Progression of a Standard for your expert group. • Dialog about the instructional implications of that standard for science, math, and social studies. • Round-robin what you discussed as partners. • Members of the expert group determine what ideas you will share with your home groups using your Moving Forward recording sheets.

9. Engage Students in the Standard Discuss: • Return to your main group, discuss ideas and share your Moving Forward recording sheets. • Use your Moving Forward recording sheets to collaborate to write a Matchbook Summary that conveys the main ideas and significant details about writing across content areas. • Write your summary on a large Post-it Note.

10. Engaging Students in the Standard Wrap Up: Discuss and reflect • Redistribute the Matchbook Summaries • How does your summary compare to another group’s summary? • What are the vertical curricular implications?

11. LUNCH