Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and Coaching Panel
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Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and Coaching Panel
Moderated by Sharon HarperSoutheast CORE Director
Welcome to our Panelists
• Monty Wilson, Ed.D. Supervisor, Wilson County Schools • Lisa Coons Middle School Coordinator, Sumner County Schools • Linda Kennard, Ed.D. Director, Curriculum & Instruction, Shelby County Schools
Today our panelists will be discussing the following three questions: • How are you approaching literacy across subject
areas?
• How are your leveraging the Tennessee writing assessment?
• How are you ensuring students are reading complex texts? And additionally, how are you all supporting students struggling with text complexity?
How are you supporting literacy across subject areas?
Monty WilsonSupervisor,
Wilson County Schools
Common Core Literacy for All 6-12 Content Areas
Monty Wilson, Instructional SupervisorWilson County Schools
Wilson County Professional Development Plan for Common Core Literacy
• 2012 (Summer) –ELA teachers (full day), SS teachers (1/2 day), and PE teachers (1/2) day.
• 2013 (Spring) – CTE teachers (1/2 day)• 2013 (Summer) – Fine Art teachers (1/2 day) and
Science teachers (1/2 day)
ELA Initial Focus
• Incorporating non-fiction to accompany literature
• Transitioning writing assignments from “free-response” to “text based”
• Selection and use of complex texts using qualitative and quantitative measures.
• Incorporating more analyses of multiple texts
PE Initial Focus
• Why literacy is a school-wide initiative
• How PE teachers can impact student literacy
• Writing task – What are they? How were they created?
• Text-based evidence• How to grade a student’s essay
SS and CTE Initial Focus
• Why literacy is a school-wide initiative
• How SS/CTE teachers can impact student literacy
• Writing task – What are they? How do we create them? (Focus on LDC’s Template Tasks)
• Text-based evidence• How to grade a student’s
essay
Literacy Focus for all Content Areas in 6-12(Mathematics excluded due to CRAs)
• ½ Day Training on Common Core (Included participants completing a Literacy Task for Fine Arts)
• 9 hours of PLC time by course/cluster to create school-level Literacy Tasks which included …– Two different informational texts to read– One required literacy task for each article (included summarizing,
formulating central idea, identifying textual evidence to support central idea, Tier-2 vocabulary questions with textual evidence)
– Analytical writing assignment which required a comparison of the two texts
Resources
• Literacy Design Collaborative Template Tasks• PARCC Model Content Frameworks• Appendix B Common Core Standards• Common Core Coaches and Trained Teachers• Holistic Rubrics• Samples Student Work• District Created Literacy Templates• Institute for Learning
Our Hope …
IncreasedStudentLiteracy
How are your leveraging the Tennessee writing assessment?
Lisa Coons Middle School Coordinator,Sumner County Schools
2012-13 Writing Work: Phase One
OCTOBER Gave pilot as cold assessment
WEEKLY OCT PD
Teacher Professional Development: state rubric and anchor papers
WEEKLY NOV PD
Teacher Professional Development: Model Scoring
and collaborative scoring sessions
Phase One Resources
State writing prompts
State anchor papers
State rubrics
Weekly PD schedule
2012-13 Writing Work: Phase Two
DECEMBERAnalyzed student growth and created
monthly writing maps with weekly benchmarks
JANUARY PD DAY
Trained Teachers on map objectives and assessments
JANUARY Map-based writing instruction and provided weekly interventions
Phase Two Resources
Student results
Locally created maps
Additional prompts for benchmarks
All teacher PD day and weekly PLC time
2013-14 Writing Work
October Analyzed formal writing prompt results
November Plan new writing maps (decentralized approach)
December Teacher Professional Learning Options: Anchors, Maps and Interventions
2013-14 Resources
State student results
Locally created building maps
New state rubric and anchor papers
Teacher leadership and weekly PLC time
How are you ensuring students are reading complex texts? And additionally,
how are you all supporting students struggling with text complexity?
Linda Kennard, Ed.D. Director, Curriculum & Instruction,
Shelby County Schools
ELA/Literacy Common Core Panel
Tackling Text Complexity in Shelby County Schools
Dr. Linda KennardDirector of Curriculum & Instruction
How are we ensuring that students are reading complex texts?
• Align curriculum maps with the PARCC Model Content Frameworks
• Provide teachers with Common Core aligned resources – Adopted texts– Supplementary materials
PARCC FrameworkQ
UART
ERS
Reading Complex Text Writing to Texts
Research Project
Reading Complex Text
Many of the short texts are
from the Reading Text Book
An extended text is in addition to the shorter texts
You can learn more from the
CCSS Appendix B Please noteThat there will be
literature and informational
short text each nine weeks.
Writing to Texts
Students must be writing about what they are reading if they are going to be ready for the PARCC assessments that begin in 2014-2015.
For more information on the types of writing and samples, see CCSS Appendix C
Research Project
One Research Project
each nine weeks.
Integrate knowledge from sources when
composing
Integrate knowledge from your Extended Text
with science and or social studies when
writing.
PARCCPlanning Guide
Reading Complex Texts Writing to Text Research Project
SCS Curriculum Maphttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php
What steps must be taken to cite evidence from the text when making a point or stating a claim? What steps must be taken when formulating a summary? How does a narrator’s point of view affect the meaning of a story?
CCSS SPIs I Can.. Content
Reading Complex Text
Weeks 1-3
SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – 5th
Short text selections - Literature• Thunder Rose • Island of the Blue Dolphin • Inside Out Short text selections - Informational• Satchel Paige • Shutting Out the Sky• Passage to FreedomExtended text• The Secret Garden
SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – ENG IIExtendedText: Night, by Elie Wiesel Short Stories:• There Will Come Soft Rains • By the Waters of Babylon• The Masque of the Red DeathInformational Text • Speech:
Keep Memory Alive – EXEMPLAR • “The Babylon Captivity”
How we are supporting students struggling with text complexity?
• Professional Development is ongoing, sustained, and job embedded
• TNCore Coaches have created Seven Common Core Study Groups Modules
• Open District web site that provides curriculum maps, pacing guides, and PARCC planning guides
• Password protected (Weebly) for K-5 resources teacher, district, and external links.
Common Core Study Groupshttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ccsg.php
English Language Artshttp://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php
English Language Arts- Elementary www.scselementaryliteracy.weebly.com