1. Supporting the Essential Instructional Practices
FREE MISSION LITERACY RESOURCES
MRA Summer Literature Conference 2017
2:10 Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy

2. Outcomes
Become familiar with the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy
Learn about free resources on Mission Literacy to support each of the Essential Instructional Practices, and how these resources are organized
Consider the assessments you are using for literacy
Interact with several new resources created to support effective instructional practice
2:10 Patti

3. Voices in the Room Welcome
Raise your hand if you have heard of the Essentials
Patti Introductions of our group (just say our names);

4. Essential Instructional Practices (GELN)
Literacy Motivation and Engagement
Read Alouds
Small Group and Individual Instruction
Phonological Awareness
Explicit Instruction in Letter-Sound Relationship
Writing Instruction
Vocabulary and Content Knowledge
Abundant Reading
Ongoing Observation and Assessment
Collaboration with Families in Promoting Literacy
2:15-2:20 (5 minutes) Barb will do a quick overview of history of the Essentials; talk about our focus being on K-3 today, but 4-5 document also includes these essentials

5. Mission Literacy Mission Literacy Road Map
2:20-2:25 Sue (5 minutes)
Mission Literacy site navigation today’s session posted in PD → MRA → 2017 page

6. Assessments to Ensure Literacy Competence
Which ones are you assessing?
Reflect: Which tools are you using? Which are you familiar with?
Partner?
Share
2:25-2:35___ - (10 minutes) Jackie Note the correlations between the Assessments to Ensure Literacy and the Essentials document. Reference the site map
“Many of these are on the Initial and Extensive MDE Approved Assessment list for the 3rd grade reading legislation.”
Participants look over the assessment chart - highlight the assessments you’re familiar with, which ones are unknown to you?
Turn and talk - partner
Share out w/ the room

7. Managing the Working Parts
Managing the Working Parts of Reading Flipbook
Reflect on the Working Parts of Reading:
Find:
A part that is your strength !
A part you know pretty well
A part where you may need support ?
2:35-2:45 Elaine
Mention (MLPP videos)

8. What are you thinking? Stop and talk to your neighbor about it.
2:45-2:50 - Elaine

9. Engagement: Choice Words Peter Johnston (Barb)
Read Alouds: Notice and Note (Jackie)
Small Group: Coaching Readers Booklet (Patti)
Writing: Writing Tracker (Elaine)
Reading Foundations: Mission Literacy Links (Sue)
2:50:__ Barb quickly introduce this slide
Choice words (Barb), Notice and Note (Jackie), Coaching Reader’s Books (Patti), Writing (Elaine), Reading Foundations (Sue)

10. Motivation and Engagement
Build a culture first, then the learning grows from that.
Barb
Choice Words and Opening Minds by Peter Johnston; Making Learning Whole by David Perkins; Mindset by Carol Dweck

11. Choice Words “Children grow into the intellectual
life around them” (Vygotsky)
That intellectual life is
fundamentally social, and language
has a special place in it.
Because the intellectual life is social,
it is also relational and emotional.
___- 2:55 Barb: Connection to Essential #1
Refer to Choice Words sentence stems in handout packet

12. Beers and Probst
2:55 __ Jackie

13. Coaching Readers Assess to Ensure Literacy Competence Select Goals
Reading Strategies
Word Study
3:00 Patti

14. Ingredients of Good Writing
Writing Tracker
Ingredients of Good Writing
Fluency Focus Form
Grow Writers
3:05 Elaine

15. Reading Foundations Literacy Tools → Reading Foundations
Literacy Tools  Assessment
2001 / 2005
Assessment → MLPP Resources
Literacy Tools →
Reading Foundations
Print Concepts
Phonological Awareness
Knowledge of Alphabet
Word Recognition
Li3:10 - Sue
- Print Concepts

16. SCECH Code