Shelton Intermediate School has initiated a Literacy Team to promote active literacy in every classroom for all students across the disciplines. This presentation is based on current research and provides a framework and strategies to promote literacy practices building wide across every discipline.
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Literacy in Every Classroom
1. Building Based Literacy Strategies Across the Content Areas SIS Professional Development November 4, 2008 Provided by the SIS Literacy Team
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3. Goal: Closing the SIS Achievement Gap With Direct Vocabulary Instruction Techniques and Tools to Improve Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development Across the Content Areas
33. Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term. Emancipation To free someone from bondage Czar Alexander “emancipated”, or freed the Russian serfs in 1861. Abraham Lincoln “emancipated”, or freed the slaves in the south in 1863.
34. Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words . Emancipation To free someone from bondage Notes: Emancipation became the law when the 13 th Amendment freed the slaves after the Civil War
39. Definition Characteristics Examples Non-Examples Culture Culture is the total pattern of human behavior and its by-products Customs, beliefs, social forms and material traits of ethnic, racial, religious and social groups In the Mid-East many men wear robes to work. Many people in Asia eat with chop sticks. We live in a house. We wear clothes. We eat rice.
41. Involve students periodically in activities that allow them to learn terms. Vocabulary Charades Name That Category Draw Me Vocabulary Jeopardy (What is the Question?) Other PowerPoint Games
48. Lecture Reading Audiovisual Demonstration Discussion Group Practice by Doing Teach Others / Immediate Application 5% 10% 20% 30% 50% 75% 90% Average Retention Rate After 24 Hours Power of Collaboration
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52. Other versions of Vocabulary Building Templates Where can I find these templates? Others and some more … Go to the SIS LMC Website / Teacher’s Toolkit
62. Texas Region 13 Education Resource Center Word: In my own words: __________________________________ _______________ _ is a synonym. _______________ _ is an antonym. Picture:
63. The Frayer Model Perdurable (To become more durable) To ingrain in my memory so well that I will not forget it.
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Carolyn greets and moderates first half of presentation to faculty.
Table Leaders will distribute these for individuals to complete.
Table Leaders will distribute these so individuals can complete.
Transition to Terry
Break for table exercise using department specific word examples.
Have participants fill out Frayer handout for Achievement Gap; then have partners/tables do a “Think, Pair, Share”; then have tables do report out.
Launch link to display variety of powerpoint game options.
Brief table activity; pause slide advancement; Table Leaders distribute Six Steps handout for review activity; advance to right side of slide until after break. Encourage tables to share discussions.
Solicit responses from participants.
This graphic is used to show the power of collaboration. In order to help students retain information after a 24 hour period, it is important that they become personally involved with the information. Students will only retain 5% of what they hear in a lecture. As they move “down” the period, their retention rate grows at each additional step. Also as they move “down” the pyramid, their active involvement / participation increases in each activity. The greatest opportunity for retention of information occurs when students teach others and immediately apply the information.
Launch links as time permits
Have participants discuss at their tables, then tables do a “report out” on discussion.
Have teachers fill out Frayer for “perdurable” as time permits