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How To Access Instructional Focus Calendars

How To Access Instructional Focus Calendars. www.sarasota.k12.fl.us Employees Instructional Focus Calendars Subject Area Grade Level. How To Access IFC Language Purpose Statements. Open Focus Calendar For Grades 3-12, Under the column for Week/Lesson click on the hyperlink.

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How To Access Instructional Focus Calendars

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  1. How To Access Instructional Focus Calendars • www.sarasota.k12.fl.us • Employees • Instructional Focus Calendars • Subject Area • Grade Level

  2. How To Access IFC Language Purpose Statements • Open Focus Calendar • For Grades 3-12, Under the column for Week/Lesson click on the hyperlink. • Place your cursor before the number and press • Control + Click • You will now be able to see the description of the standard, the week of the lesson and additional weeks when the skill will be addressed. • Beneath it you will see the Content Purpose statement and the Language Purpose Statement.

  3. What Are Essential Skill Areas Across Scope and Sequence? Key…as indicated on Year’s Overview for MS/HS: • Vocabulary-Red • Reading Application- Dark Blue • Literary Analysis, Fiction Non-fiction – Green • Informational Text/Research Process-Purple

  4. What Are Essential Skills AreasAcross Scope and Sequence? Seen across grade levels: • Main Idea and Details • Characters and Setting • Making Predictions, Inferences, Drawing Conclusions • Figurative Language • Word Structures/Word Relationships • Text Structures: • Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Persuasion, Narrative, Poetry…. • Text Features: • Glossary, Table of Contents, Headings, Graphs…

  5. What Are Essential Skill AreasAcross Scope and Sequence? As students move to MS/HS more complexity is seen within Essential Skills: • Author’s Purpose • Plot and Setting • Summarize and Paraphrase • Character –Point of View, Conflict/Resolution, Motives • Analyze/Evaluate information

  6. What are the Common Language Purposes? • Which vocabulary repeats across the year in a grade level? • Which Vocabulary repeats from grade to grade? • What do the Language Purposes require a student to do to demonstrate knowledge? • How do they evolve from one grade level to the next?

  7. Question….? If you are going to develop students’ language skills and support them in accessing classroom curriculum…. … what will give them the most “bang for their buck”?

  8. ??? • What vocabulary words, ideas and skills do they most need to learn? • and… while assisting students in learning what are you likely to spend time teaching, re-teaching and practicing during therapy time ?

  9. Some Ideas… • Work in small groups or with a partner. • Each “team” select an Essential Skill Area . • Look at that skill area across the year. • Look at how the skill evolves across grade levels (3-5, 6-8, 9/10). • Dig down into the Content and Language Purpose Statements to see how students’ must demonstrate knowledge.

  10. Consider… Keep your particular students in mind • What is important to know or master to be a successful high school student? • …a college student? • …a person in a vocational-technical school setting? • …in a job setting?

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