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Launching Your Literacy Block

Published on Aug 23, 2017

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Launching Your Literacy Block

Building a Firm Foundation

Outcomes

  • Clarify the role of the standards.
  • Identify how to launch the first 8 days.
  • Backwards plan the first unit.

Support Structures

Resources to support your work
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Foundation

Standards to guide our work
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Literacy Standards

  • Identify a skill
  • Locate the skill in Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking

Literacy block Schedule

Where to Start?
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Components

  • Shared Reading
  • Guided Reading/Daily 5
  • Process Writing
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Launching your block

  • Draft a literacy block daily schedule with your grade level team
  • Make sure you have the three elements

Building a Culture of Literacy

  • Daily 5
  • Anchor Charts
  • Having a Growth Mindset

What is Daily 5?

Daily 5

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Guided Reading/Learning Stations

  • Rotation 1: Guided Reading with you
  • Rotation 2: Read to Self
  • Rotation 3: Work on Writing (Intermediate)

LIteracy Routines

  • Read to Self*
  • Work on Writing*
  • Work on Words
  • Growth Mindset

Read to Self

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Work On Words

Work ON Writing

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Task

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  • What is the station?
  • Make an I Chart that modeling what you might do with students

Backwards Planning

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Task: Using the Tools

Find answers to the following questions using your tools
Your job is to use the tool you are assigned to find answers to some of the listed questions about the unit.

Table 1: Big question, key standards
Table 2: What are the key standards covered in the unit assessment? What are the components of the assessment?
Table 3: What are the weekly areas of focus?
Table 4: How can you use technology to support learning?

As a team use the tools find the answers to your critical questions

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Debrief

  • What tools did you use?
  • How do these answers support your planning for unit one?

Share out

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Writing Process Project

  • Narrative
  • Informative
  • Opinion

WRiting

  • Primary Focus: Writing Process
  • Secondary Focus: Shared Reading-Written Responses
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Writing Task

  • What is the primary form and project focus?
  • Written response: (shared reading) What type of written responses are built in for the secondary focus?
  • Writing Process: (shared writing block) What is the project focus?

Supports in Place

Summary

  • First 8 Days Plan
  • Draft Literacy Block
  • Backwards design Unit 1