Ottawa Area Intermediate School District Literacy Framework Unveiling

"Literacy development is an ongoing process, and it requires just as much attention for adolescents as it does for beginning readers.” – International Reading Association Position Statement on Adolescent Literacy 1999

"Literacy" is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate, compute and use printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. " – UNESCO

Lessons from the Geese: Lesson 1: People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

Belief Statements:Belief Statements: Teachers must design instruction around real world applications, substantive conversations, higher order thinking, leading students to deep knowledge about themselves and the world Teachers must understand both the continuum of reading and writing development and children’s individual and cultural variations

Balanced Literacy

Communicating with others Teachers – Grade levels Administrators In our buildings In our districts In other districts

The Framework Develops Background Definitions and Summaries – Balanced Literacy – Universal Design for Learning – Implications from Brain Research – Assessment: Formative, Summative, Progress Monitoring – Response to Intervention

Instructional Strategies and Practices to develop: Proficient reading and writing behaviors and skills Thinking Vocabulary Comprehension Interactive dialogue Presentation skills Listening Media Literacy

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Next Steps Continue adding parts as they are refined Share with others STEM grant to bring in Math / Science Provide summer work opportunities

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