1. RSHS Literacy Training
Session 1
October 1, 2010
RSHS - Literacy Team

2. RSHS Literacy Team Daniel Ryberg Shari Brockington Jackie Morgan
Lori Locklear
David Lea’kes
Karen Williams
Katasha Oxendine
Gary Horton
Angela Musselwhite
Jamal Campbell

3. What is Literacy? The condition or quality of being
literate, especially
the ability to read and write.

4. Why is it important for our students to be able to have the following Literacy skills?
Summarizing (and note taking)
Paraphrasing
Categorizing
Inferring
Predicting
Recognizing Academic/Technical Vocabulary

5. Let me Tell you Why!
Direct links to most items on ASSET/COMPASS reading placement tests for Community Colleges
Included in ACT, PSAT, SAT
Consistently in state standards
Recognized by postsecondary faculty for importance
Linked to all content areas
Linked to careers

6. Research tells us that people generally remember…..
10%
Read
20%
Hear
30%
See
50%
Hear & See
90%
Teach to another

7. “Every Teacher is a Teacher of Reading”
Setting the Purpose:
“The House”
Read “The House”
Highlight the important information (you have 3 min.)
Read the story again as if you are a ROBBER; once again highlight the important information
Read the story again as if you are a REAL ESTATE AGENT; once again highlight the important information.
* Purposeful learning requires setting a purpose for reading *

8. How are you a Teacher of Reading?
Think-Pair-Share
Write your response on a post-it note (60 seconds)
Share your response with a neighbor (60 seconds each)
Share YOUR response or YOUR NEIGHBORS response with the whole group
Cooperative learning activity
Use a post-it note because it is a small space
Allows you to share your response or someone else’s

9. Brain Break!

12. Reasons to Read Pleasure
Informational (ex. Newspapers, manuals, magazines, instructions, etc.)
Develop school based reading lists for each curriculum area
SSR, DEAR, create classroom libraries
Feedback – oral or written
Include in-class reading activities

13. Strategies to Attain Meaning
Context clues
KWL
Highlighting
Word Splash
Note taking
Outlining
Underlining
Mind Maps
Graphic Organizers
Anticipation Guide
Post-It Notes
Foldables
Frayer Model
Story Impressions
Jackie & Shari presenting

14. ACTIVITY: Foldables Get in your content area group
Create a grammar foldable
Fold the paper in half (hamburger) with the print showing
Fold the edge of one side over to touch the solid fold line
Crease and fold well. A column of print will be exposed.
Turn the paper over and repeat step 3 on the other side. A column of print will be exposed on bother sides.
Turn the paper over so no print is showing. Fold the right outer edge over to touch the middle fold line.
Fold the left outer edge over to touch the middle fold line.
Refold along the middle fold line to form an accordion with no print showing. Crease all fold lines well. Glue the accordion sections together on the side without print, leaving the two end sections unglued.
With the front and back sections of the paper out of the way, cut along the fold lines through the two middle folded sections

15. ACTIVITY: Foldables
Each person plan a foldable for your content area that you can use this year.
Share your foldable with the group

16. Tree Activity

17. Conclusion