1. Literacy “Spring-board” Conversation October 28, 2011
Integrating Literacy Instruction Across the Subject Areas in Grades 9-12
Literacy “Spring-board” Conversation October 28, 2011

2. Findings from PISA

3. Findings from PISA

4. Findings from PISA

5. Building a Literacy Focus
PowerPoint Literacy Grades K-4
06/12/2010
Building a Literacy Focus
Teamwork within Schools
Teamwork among Schools
Grades K-4
Grades 5-8
Grades 9-12
Early success in listening, speaking, reading, and writing
Sustain success in listening, speaking, reading, and writing
Increase engagement
K-12 Cross-curricular Literacy Continuum

6. “Spring-board” Conversations
December
2010
April
2011
October
January
2012
May

7. How are we doing? The goals of our Literacy Focus
School-based literacy teams
Spring-board conversations

8. Think Literacy
Students in Grades 7 to 12 need well-developed literacy skills to succeed in all subject areas, and all subjects provide opportunities to develop those skills.
Content-area teachers can do the best job of teaching the reading and writing skills required by their discipline.
Has the resource been helpful?

9. Reading Next Has the resource been helpful?
Direct, explicit comprehension instruction
Effective instructional principles embedded in content
Motivation and self-directed learning
Ongoing formative assessment
Extended time for literacy
Professional development
Interdisciplinary teams
A comprehensive and coordinated approach
Has the resource been helpful?
Direct, explicit comprehension instruction
Comprehension strategies instruction
Questioning, clarifying, predicting, and summarizing
Comprehension monitoring and metacognition instruction
Teacher modeling
Scaffolded instruction
Reciprocal teaching

10. Teaching students strategies for planning, revising, and
editing their compositions
Writing Next
Explicitly and systematically teaching students how to
summarize texts
The report identifies 11 elements of current writing instruction found to be effective for helping adolescent students learn to write well and to use writing as a tool for learning.
Has the resource been helpful?

11. Next Steps Our next “spring-board” conversation is scheduled for ?
School-based Literacy Teams promote conversations and actions that support and enhance student literacy in their schools by:
working within departments to determine literacy skills required in each discipline
considering key instructional approaches to teach reading, writing, speaking, listening and thinking strategies while teaching subject content
Two Divisional Professional Learning Goals
Develop a made-in-LRSD Cross-Curricular Literacy Continuum K-12
Develop made-in-LRSD Cross-Curricular Writing Exemplars K-12
Survey about our Literacy Focus

12. What are your next steps?
Literacy Teams continue to promote school-based conversations and actions that support and enhance student literacy in their schools
Division-wide projects
Survey about our Literacy Focus