1. Purpose : To create a failsafe system of literacy so that all students have equal access to a standards based curriculum Result: Joyful, independent readers, writers, and content learners!

2. The Challenge is for… – teachers to move from compliance to commitment and – students to move from compliance to engagement.

3. Align daily work with reading & thinking expectations of assessment. Non-fiction reading =non-fiction on assessment Levels of questions=levels of questions on assessment

4. Literacy is listening, viewing, thinking, expressing through multiple symbol systems, speaking, reading, and writing.

5. Schools that improve literacy… Research-based intervention is consistently implemented, monitored, and evaluated. All teachers consistently teach, model, practice literacy strategies before, during, and after reading.

6. Literacy is everyones job all day long!

7. Literacy Development Tasks Primary Grades Phonics Phonemic awareness (vocabulary, fluency and comprehension also) Grades 3 and up Vocabulary Fluency Comprehension

8. Literacy Classroom Community StudentText Academic safety Psychological safety Knowledge, content, vocabulary background Structure, Vocabulary Motivation: choice, clear goals Strategies, motivation Relevancy, respect Literacy enrichedCultureRigor, accessibility

9. Commitment to Literacy is…… integrated language arts & content print & literacy rich classrooms arts, and technology used as tools accessing, deepening & communicating reading to and with students daily students reading independently with accountability daily writing about reading daily teaching, modeling, practicing strategies aligning learning tools with belief of literacy

10. Science Venn Diagram & Compare and Contrast Paragraph

11. Word Wall in Science

12. Root words, prefixes, suffixes

13. Intervention: Scope Magazine & Readers Handbook

14. Mathematics Journal

15. Accountable Independent Reading

16. Choice in independent reading

17. Accountability for Independent Reading

18. Finding Time for Independent Reading

19. Read to in Global Studies

20. Main idea, supporting details

21. Using Literature to Scaffold to Authentic Work

22. Courtyard Café: Created by Art Students Riverview High School

23. Literacy Rich: Lake Brantley High School

24. English Language Learners Writing: LBHS

25. JHMS Media Center Marketing Books

26. SLHS Media Center Marketing Books

27. Motivating Independent Reading: Lyman High School

28. Literacy Coach: Professional development, materials, resources, data study

29. Literacy Leadership Modeling

30. Daily Literacy Non-negotiables Use processes of literacy: reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, thinking, expressing through multiple symbol systems Read to and with students Read by themselves with accountability Teach, model, practice strategies of expert readers and writers Literacy rich, print rich environment

31. Periodic non-negotiables Word study Strategic test preparation

32. Strategies of Expert Readers Predicting: What is it about? What will happen next? Visualizing: picturing the story Connecting:self, text, world Questioning: asking/answering Clarifying: answering own questions with context clues, pictures, rereading, etc. Evaluating: before, during, after reading

33. Strategies of Expert Readers Using graphic organizers Monitoring comprehension Recognizing text structure Summarizing

34. Question Answer Relationships QAR – Helps students know where to find the answers. – Helps students comprehend what they are reading. – Gives students a purpose for reading. – Helps students monitor comprehension. – Encourages higher level thinking. – Helps students to know that all questions are not answered by looking in the text.

35. 4 Levels of Questions Right there! Answer is found in one place in the text. Who? What? When? Where? How? List. Think & search! Answer if found in more than one place in the text. Summarize. Compare. Contrast, What caused? Retell. Explain. Find 2 examples. For what reason? Author & you! Answer is not in the text, but you must read the text and apply what you read. On My Own! Questions are answered with information you have read from the text and/or from other places. You must think to answer it.

36. Steps to Implement QAR 1. Become an expert & consistent questioner. 2. Teach students the 4 levels of questions. 3. Create expert question recognizers and answerers. 4. Students ask 4 levels of questions.

37. Resources Moxley, D. & Taylor, R. T. (2006). Literacy Coaching: A Handbook for School Leaders. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press; Reston, VA: NASSP. Taylor, R. & Gunter, G. (2005). K-12 Literacy Leadership Fieldbook. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Taylor, R. & Collins, V.D. (2003) Literacy Leadership for Grades 5- 12. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. Williams, R. D. & Taylor, R. T. (2003). Leading With Character to Improve Student Achievement. Chapel Hill, NC: Character Development Publishers. 919.967.2110