Reading Initiative October 26, 2005 Real knowledge is to Welcome – Dr. Vickie Davis know the extent of one's ignorance. — Confucius Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Giff Quick Write/Reader’s Response: What are your memories of learning to read? Use your steno-pad.
Keep a Personal Literacy Journal Thoughts about when we learned to read, how, and with whom Interesting Questions Quotes That Turn Me On! Dialogue Journal (you write, someone responds) Double Entry Journal (pg. & quote / your thoughts)
The Purpose of the Reading Initiative Look at past practice – Lay it all down! – Don’t be offended if someone challenges your past practice. AND, don’t be afraid to share what you are doing that works! Learn/Know research-based practices – Surgeon story 2006-2007 LA adoption year – What are we looking for? Know what we are looking for! Vision statement – Destination – What does our best look like? Mission statement – Roads to travel – How do we get there? Belief statements – What do we believe about reading and best practices to allow us to attain our vision/our best? Mapping LA standards provided through grade level meetings making sure there are no gaps K-12 Tracking: Keep track of themes, topics, standards - Curriculum mapping for the year when and how you check off the standards – Spreadsheet checklist – Keep it simple – Share samples What will be the process to get everyone else on board when we define our vision?
Graffiti Strategy – What are our most important beliefs about teaching reading? Groups of 4: one primary, one intermediate, one middle school, one high school. Graffiti Wall - with colorful markers and large poster paper, have all students creatively design a Graffiti Wall of things they know about a specific topic of study. Students are then encouraged to add to the wall throughout the unit as they gain new knowledge. A colorful way to display what they know and what they have learned.
Reading Research PowerPoint – Stop and Reflect Points
Lunch
Research spent on learning and discussing - Do you have a special interest or something that you want to know more about? Be thinking… Phonemic Awareness Phonics Fluency Teaching reading IS rocket Vocabulary science. - Louisa Moats Comprehension Balanced Literacy Program – Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension Phonics Based Reading Program – Open Court, Direct Instruction (SRA) 4 Blocks The most fundamental responsibility 3 Tier Reading Model of schools is teaching students to RTI – Response to Intervention read. – Louisa Moats Reading Assessments Error Correction Procedure Other?
To scaffold your thinking: What does it look like: define/describe? Why is it important? What would it look like in a classroom? Did you try it? If so, bring some student samples to share. Strengths / Weaknesses What could we pull from it for our district? and/or What grade levels? How important could this be for our vision? Provide a resource (article, website, book talk…) – Make copies of the article for everyone (30) with a printed overview of the questions above. You may scaffold this in the form of two column notes, in a graphic organizer/web, etc., with your reading research template. You will do a 10 minutes sharing with your partner on 1/18/05. Computer Lab: Jane and Tricia – Check your email first!
What would it take? – Mosaic of Thought by Keene and Zimmerman Separate into school levels: Primary together…Intermediate together… Middle…High School
What are your critical/essential questions about reading at your grade levels? What do you wonder about your students? What are the questions to answer to get your students reading with the needed skills and to develop a passion for books? Keep posted in our room and in your Personal Literacy Journal.
Dumpy LaRue by Dorothy Winthrop – Writer’s response - PLJ
http://www.elizabethwinthrop.com/dumpy.html
Let’s Dance!
Reading is the basic tool in the living of a good life. ~ Mortimer J. Adler ~ Computer Lab: Jane & Tricia FCSC Library Page http://www2.fcsconline.org/book/ - Graphic Organizers NCTE, National Council for Teachers of English - site with password http://www.ncte.org International Reading Association - http://reading.org/ ASCD Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.7ecb0460a2b144dd12c7 c91061a001ca/ Books (or chapters) to read online from Stenhouse Publishers http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfbooks.asp Books from Heinemann Publishers with sample chapters to read http://books.heinemann.com/ Vision, Mission, Beliefs http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/cav.html INSPIRE how to use for research http://inspire.net/ Journal Writing http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/tjournal.htm Florida Center for Reading Research - www.fcrr.org Click on FCCR Reports Reading Research & DIBELS - https://www.myscschools.com/offices/ec/sig/documents/SouthCarolin aCECtorgesen.ppt
Professional Journals Educational Leadership, ASCD – March 2004 & October 2005 great reading issues The Reading Teacher, IRA, for those working with children to age 12 (journal must be a year old) set year from 2000-2004 Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, IRA, essential reading for teachers of older learners (journal must be a year old) set year from 2000-2004 Language Arts, NCTE – Elem. (not available in full text in INSPIRE, but you can search there first, then go to NCTE site and get your article with ID and PW.) Voices from the Middle, NCTE - Middle English Journal, NCTE – Middle and High School