CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN 2016-2017

NICOLE BAHRENBURG EDU 707

Administrative Responsibilities Due By December 2015

• Provide professional development during staff and PLC meetings on close reading
• Provide literature on close reading strategy for teachers implementing the strategy
• Meet with the district literacy coach to organize support in the classroom
• Meet with the district curriculum director
• Work with classroom teachers to adjust curriculum based on student need
• Use the data to guide curriculum changes

Teacher Responsibilities Due By June 2016

• Attend professional development as needed
• Collaborate in PLC's to discuss and understand implementing the close reading strategy
• Communicate with colleagues and families about how close reading will be integrated into content area units
• Review student data to adjust lessons to meet the needs of all students
• Differentiate lessons based on student need
• Use the rubrics to evaluate assessments

3rd grade units to integrate close reading

• Literacy: Characters Into Meaning: Because of Winn Dixie
• Science: Engineering is Elementary: Building Bridges
• Social Studies: Community and the World Around Us: Beatrice's Goat

Standards Assessed
RL.3.1 Understanding of Text, Finding Evidence in the Text, CLOSE READING
Rl.3.2 - RL.3.87, and RL.3.10
Speaking and listening SL.3.1c, SL.3.1d

Science Engineering Unit: Engineering is Elementary, Bridge Building
Writing Standards: W.3.1 a-d, W.3.4, W.3.8
Math standards: 3.MD.A., 3.MD.B
MP3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
NGSS- Practice 7. Science and Engineering Practices (3-5)

Close Reading in Characters into meaning unit

• Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo read aloud
• Lesson intros after chapter 26
• Guided close read of chapter 26 modeled with students
• Planning page and scaffolded essay

Science Engineering unit bridges

• Pop's Bridge by Eve Bunting read aloud
• Guided close read as whole class and small group of the author's note
• Planning page and scaffolded essay for Golden Gate Bridge

Social Studies community and world unit

• Beatrice's Goat by Page McBrier read aloud
• Model just the beginning of close read then students complete in small groups or individually
• Planning Page and independent essay responding to how Mugisa changed Beatrice's life with evidence from the text

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Rubric 1

Rubric 2

PRESENTATION DATES

• Close reading in unit 1 presented by grade 3 teachers in literacy unit by December 1, 2015
• Close reading in unit 2 presented by grade 3 teachers in science by March 1, 2016
• Close reading in unit 3 presented by grade 3 teachers in social studies by June 1, 2016

IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE

• All third grade teachers should be ready to fully implement close reading in each of these units by September 2016.
• Third grade teachers meet during June 2016 inservice to modify and adjust units to include close reading strategy.
• Units must include standards addressed, vigorous text for close read, planning page for essay, and the scaffold for writing the essay.
• Differentiation and technology must be respresented in each unit during the close reading lessons.

CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS

• Staff and PLC time for reflection of implementation of these units should be respected
• The district employes only one literacy coach across the district
• English language teachers must also become knowledgeable on teaching close reading to ELL's

Overcoming Barriers

• Provide teachers with the support they need
• Make sure intervention blocks are fully staffed
• Provide coverage for support staff in the case of an absence so students still receive services