Transcript Implementing Common Core: A Focus on Early Literacy

Implementing Common Core:
A Focus on Early Literacy
Module- 1
ELA/ELD Connections
Presenters:
LaRae Blomquist
Susan Lapachet
Christina McColley
Jenny Smith
Patty Tong
September 2014
Historical Reference
Trainings Preparing for The CCSS
• Summer/Pre Service 2012 :
– 3rd-6th grade (Overview, GRR, Connecting Reading to
Writing)
• Summer/Pre Service 2013:
– K-2nd grade (Overview, TDQ, Close Reading, Connecting
Reading to Writing)
Administrative Trainings:
Year at a Glance
Outcomes:
Participants will gain a deeper
understanding of:
1. ELD Standards and their
connection to ELA Standards.
2. effective instructional strategies
for all students.
3. next steps at site based on
teacher professional learning and
resources.
Resource/Notes Handout
A page listing
relevant sources and
links for today’s
PowerPoint and
handouts has been
provided.
Additionally, there is
room at the bottom
to record personal
notes.
Consider the Strands* of CCSS
• Reading:
– Literature (RL)
– Informational Text (RI)
– Foundational Skills (RF)
• SL- Speaking and Listening
• L- Language
• W- Writing
Correspondence Matrixes
Part 1: Interacting in
Meaningful Ways
Part 2: Learning About
How English Works
Part 3: Using
Foundational Literacy
Skills
Grade Level ELD Standards
SORT
1. Form groups of 3-4 administrators
2. Using the sort placemat, organize the
standards in the following 6 categories
• Collaborative
• Interpretive
• Productive
• Structuring Cohesive Texts
• Expanding and Enriching Ideas
• Connecting and Condensing Ideas
Let’s Check Your Answers
• Compare your sort to the standards
handout.
3rd EL
Resource
Consider Speaking and Listening Grade 6 Standard 1
1. Identify ELD corresponding standard(s)
that highlight and amplify SL6.1
2. Focus on Collaborative
Standard #3
Offering and supporting opinions and
negotiating with others in communicative
exchanges.
Question Banks
3. Create language frames using ELD
support for each proficiency level.
Emerging Example:
• I think the first main event is ________________.
Expanding Example:
• I think the first main event is _____
because_____.
Bridging Example:
• I think the first main event is _________, and the
evidence that supports my thinking is ________.
4. Write language frames on sticky
notes. Let’s look at a sample…
Big Ideas Regarding Language
Frames
Importance for ALL learners:
➢Language support if needed
➢Equity for discussion time given
collaborative parameters
➢Facilitate opportunity to develop
language proficiencies for all
students
Big Ideas Regarding Language
Frames
Importance for teachers:
➢ Facilitates effective pacing
➢ Provides audio “cues” to effectively
listen to student responses
➢ Offers teachable moment to both
discuss the sentence structure of
offered language frames AND
opportunity to encourage students to
challenge themselves linguistically
Narrowing the Focus From the Lens of
a Site Curriculum Leader
Benefits of this Process
This process will:
1. narrow the ELD focus for your staff (less
overwhelming)
2. provide a smooth introduction to the ELD
Observation Form
3. layer learning and parallel the messages
given at the Grade Level Collaborative
Learning Trainings.
Consider Beginning Here
1
Exchanging information and ideas with others through oral
collaborative conversations on a range of social and academic
topics.
3
Offering and supporting opinions and negotiating with others in
communicative exchanges.
5
Listening actively to spoken English in a range of social and
academic contexts.
6
Reading closely literary and informational texts and viewing
multimedia to determine how meaning is conveyed explicitly
and implicitly through language
9
Expressing information and ideas in formal oral presentations
on academic topics.
11
Supporting own opinions and evaluating others’ opinions in
speaking and writing.
ELA/ELD Connection
ELA/ELD Connection Activity
1. Read the ELD standards and the
corresponding ELA standards.
2. In the third column list specific examples you
might see in classroom instruction.
ELA/ELD Connection
Possible Answers
Walk Through Form
Meeting Outline
Beginning our Implementation
• How might you use the ELA/ELD
Connection document at your school site?
• How might you focus teachers on a
reasonable number of standards at a time?
• What might you expect to see in the
classroom?
Thank You to Our Curriculum Planners
!
Kindergarten Foundational Skills
Resources
Kindergarten Writing Performance
First Grade Resources
• Units 1-4 suggested standards resource
• Bank of text-dependent questions
Shifts in Assessment
• Focus on the standard—not the
selection
• Emphasis on transferable skill
• Modes of assessment
– Selected response (“multiple choice”)
– Constructed response (short answer)
– Performance task (multiple texts
w/culminating writing task)
K/1 Benchmark Assessments
Selection Assessments 2nd-6th Grade
• Goal: two assessments per unit of OCR
• Focus: on standards, assessing
transferrable skills
• Structure:constructed responses with a
few selected responses (5-7 questions)
• Timing: Selections were chosen based
on the standards and allowing enough
time to teach and practice before
assessing
Examining Assessments
• Review the provided
EGUSD-created
assessments.
• What do you notice that is
different from the traditional
Open Court assessments?
Inter-connected, On-Going P.L.
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Teaching transferable skills
Process vs. product thinking
Scaffolded questions to answer TDQs
Checking for student understanding
Connecting writing to reading
Additional Resources
• Writing prompts
• Supporting text-dependent questions
• Graphic organizers
• More assessments (Pathway: Outlook
Public Folders→Teachers→EGMAP→
__Grade →ELA)
K-6 Teacher Trainings
Feedback Survey
Please go to your district email, open the
email sent by LaRae, and complete the
survey to provide your feedback. Thank you!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/admin_module_1
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