ELA Agenda Please seat yourself by grade level tables 2:05-2:15: Welcome/Intro/Reminders 2:15-2:55: Literacy Plan Overview 2:55-3:00: Stand Up and Stretch 3:00-3:15: Thinking Maps Overview 3:15-3:30: Group Task 3:30-3:45: Share and Photo Op 3:45-4:00: Debrief, Q & A, Exit Ticket/Survey

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Literacy Plan Overview

The Vision The NRMPS literacy vision is to develop and support on-going comprehensive literacy expectations for all grades and content areas, K-12. Our goal is to build, refine, and practice the life-long literacy skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, and creating through content and supporting projects in an effort to prepare all students to be college and career ready contributing members of our democratic society.

What Does the NRMS Literacy Model Look like

TEXT Reading Writing SpeakingListeningThinkingCreating

Text

Text: a tangible artifact or document appropriate for students current level of social and intellectual development.

We Believe… NRMPS believes that text is the primary lens for literacy. Through the text experience, literacy is engaged via a complete cycle of the reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, and creativity skills inherent in all content standards. Texts can take a variety of forms, both print and non-print.

books articles essays paragraphs photos paintings sculptures raw data primary sources documents journals letters maps charts graphs word problems interviews speeches diagrams models music editorials political cartoons laws pamphlets technical plans art digital creations blue prints memoirs schematic drawings recipes film compound equations symbols

Ideas + Values = Conceptual Lens Idea: a thought, mental image, or notion. Value: an idea that is desirable or worthy for its own sake.

Think out of the box when it comes to selecting text.

READING

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” ~ Ben Franklin

Reading Are all content teachers experts in teaching reading in their content? Why is it important for content teachers to be reading teachers? How have you observed teachers teaching reading in content areas? What can we do to help?

We Believe… We believe with support, practice, and daily reading opportunities, both students and teachers can become partners in teaching and learning reading in the content areas.

WRITING

Writing Are all content teachers experts in teaching writing in their content? Why is it important for content teachers to be writing teachers? How have you observed teachers teaching writing in content areas? What can we do to help?

We Believe… Writing clarifies and refines thinking. For assessing student understanding, writing is a non-negotiable. Students need opportunities to write daily. Students need coaching and feedback on creating and refining a writing process in each content area. The District Writing Plan outlines specific assignments that should be included at each grade level from various content areas.

NRMS Digital Writing Support Pieces Write to Learn Writing Coach Essay Scorer

Speaking

The ability to express and articulate thoughts and ideas and engage in dialogue is an essential component of the Common Core State Standards and a key life-long learning skill.

Speaking Do we give students opportunities to practice speaking skills in all content areas? In what ways have you observed students practicing speaking skills?

We believe… Through the discussion and exchange of ideas, students and teachers are able to: learn to agree and disagree in a civil fashion. examine and clarify various perspectives. create new meaning. articulate complex cognitive and metacognitive information, observations, and thought.

Listening

What did you say? The ability to listen and think deeply about what you hear is a crucial literacy skill. In what ways have you observed students practicing active listening?

We Believe… If you are going to survive in the 21 st Century, filtering all the noise is going to save your life.

Thinking

READINGREADING WRITINGWRITING SPEAKINGSPEAKING LISTENINGLISTENING THINKING

Thinking Thinking has been defined as the “…ability to explain and manipulate complex systems” ( Roberts and Billings) Teaching students to think creatively and critically is the essential function of literacy.

We Believe… We believe thinking can be taught with frequent and deliberate practice.

CREATING

Creativity Tools in NRMS

We Believe… Creating well-defined projects, developed for authentic audiences, generates opportunities to: demonstrate and assess (formative, benchmark, summative) mastery of standards, practice life-long learning and sophisticated literacy skills.

Kick Starting Creativity Graduation Project The District Writing Plan Transition Projects STEM Projects Problem-Based Learning Project-Based Learning Performance Tasks Math Practice Standards Paideia Coached Project Inquiry Projects

Professional Development Curriculum and Instruction is prepared to assist schools in such areas such as: Teaching and scaffolding text Writing across the curriculum Thinking Maps Building content vocabulary Speaking, listening and thinking Structured literacy blocks The Literacy Design Collaborative …and much more!

NRMS: Let’s stop talking about Literacy….

Thinking Maps – A Review NRMPS Early Release Day September 2013

Circle Map: Defining in Context Key Words Associated with Circle Maps: Context, List, Define, Brainstorm, Associate, Generate

Bubble Map: Describing **Adjectives only Key Words Associated with Bubble Maps: Describe, characteristics, properties

Examples: With this bubble map, students are asked to give textual support for the adjectives that were chosen to describe the character. (How do you know what you know?)

Double Bubble Map: Comparing and Contrasting Key Words Associated with the Double Bubble Maps: Compare, contrast, similarities, differences

Tree Map: Classifying Key Words Associated with a Tree Map: Classify, Sort, Main Idea, Group, Categorize, Taxonomy

Brace Map: Whole to Part Relationship **shows parts of a concrete object Key Words Associated with a Brace Map: Parts, Show Structure, Take Apart, Physical Components, Anatomy

Flow Map: Sequencing Key Words Associated with Flow Maps: Sequence, Put in order, Retell, Show the Process

Multi- Flow Map: Cause and Effect **Remember you can have a one sided map focusing on either the causes of effects Key Words Associated with Multi-Flow Maps: Causes and Effects, Discuss the Consequences, What would happen if, Predict?

Bridge Map: Seeing Relationships and Analogies **Bridge Maps have a relating factor this takes the places of the phrase “is to” A complete sentence should be made from the pairs in a bridge map using the relating factor. Key Words Associated with Bridge Maps: Guess the Rule, Analogy, Symbolism

All images obtained from Google search of Thinking Maps examples

Let’s Think Together… As a group, explore 2 ideas. How are you going to: 1.renew your personal commitment to literacy? 2.help integrate literacy into all content areas? Task: Using one of the Thinking Maps, create a product that illustrates your group’s answer to the questions above.