Cornerstone & Keystone

 Accelerates Academic Vocabulary  Develops Transferable Skills  A Roadmap to Academic Success

A Roadmap to Academic Success: A well-organized, yet easy-to-use roadmap of skills is essential to helping your students achieve success. The step-by-step lesson plan and built-in strategies for differentiated instruction ensures that every learner gets the support he or she needs to achieve long term academic success.

Unit Introduction Prepare to Read Reading After Reading

CORNERSOTNEKEYSTONE  Big Question  Content summary  Readings  Listening and speaking  Writing  Quick write  What do you know about…?  Your stories about…?  Big Question  Content summary  Readings  Listening and speaking  Writing  Quick write

CORNERSTONEKEYSTONE  Vocabulary  Key words  Academic words  Word analysis and fluency  Phonics and fluency  Words in conext  Make connections  Vocabulary  Key words  Literary words  Academic words  Word study  The Big Question  Build Background  Reading strategy

CORNERSTONEKEYSTONE  Before reading  Kind of text  Big Question  Reading strategy  During the reading  Check up  Think it over  Reading strategy  Before reading  Kind of text  Set purpose for reading  During the reading  Before you go on  Literary check Highlited words are NOT vocabulary

CORNERSTONEKEYSTONE  Comprehension  Learning strategy  Extension  Grammar & writing  Review and practice  Comprehension  Reader’s theater  Dramatic reading  In your own words  Discussion  Response to literature  Read for fluency  Extension  Grammar & writing

 Link the Readings  Projects  Workshops  Learn About Art

The Five Minds are competencies which young people and the society need in the twenty first century going forward.

 Disciplined Mind  Synthesizing Mind  Creative Mind  Respectful Mind  Ethical Mind

The term disciplinary thinking has three connotations of the English word discipline. 1. Practice to get disciplinary muscle. 2. Master the major ways of thinking.  Different from subjet matter  Things which you just can’t pass on  Poorly disciplined mind: look through one discipline 3. Become an expert in at least one thing.  Arthur Rubinstein – famous pianist

 Criteria for deciding what to pay attention to and what to ignore.  Too much information on internet, etc.  Put information together in ways which cohere, which make sense for you.  Has to be transmittable to other people.  Mind maps  Stories  Formulas  Charts  Etc.

 You cannot be creative unless you have mastered at least one discipline, art or craft.  Cognitive science teaches us that on the average, it takes about ten years to master a craft. CREATIVITY EXPERTPERSONALITY JUDGEMENT OF THE FIELD

It is recognizing that the world is composed of people who look different, think differently, have different belief and value systems, and that we can no longer be hermits and live in complete isolation. This process begins with birth and at home.

 Involves a higher level of abstraction.  Being in the world involves a higher level of thinking. GOOD WORK PROJECT ETHICAL EXCELLENCEENGAGEMENT

“Intelligence plus character— that’s the goal of true education”. Martin Luther King Jr.