Houston I'S'D' Elementary ELAReading Department

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Houston I.S.D.Elementary ELA/Reading Department

• CLEAR UPDATE
• ELA Lead Teacher Meeting
• Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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Curriculum Overview

• Update on Documents
• Year-At-A-Glance (YAAG)
• TEKS/TAKS Correlations Document
• Vertical Alignment Matrix (VAM)
• Horizontal Alignment Planning Guide (HAPG)
• CBAs
• ESL Component of Bilingual Education
• Planning for Instruction
• Highlights of First Cycle HAPGs Grades K-5
• Curriculum Training Opportunities

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Curriculum Overview

• Year-At-A-Glance (YAAG)
• Provides a big picture view
• Helpful for...
• long time planning
• securing materials needed
• instruction

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Curriculum Overview

• TEKS/ TAKS Correlations Document
• Provides a correlation between HISD objectives,
  TEKS and objectives tested (such as in TAKS)
• Includes Power Objectives identified with an
  icon è
• Helpful for...
• long time planning
• targeting instruction

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Curriculum Overview

• Vertical Alignment Matrix (VAM)
• Provides an incremental view of HISD
• objectives showing their growth and
• complexity across grade levels
• (Pre-K to 5th 5th to 8th 8th to 12th)
• Includes Power Objectives identified
• with an icon è
• Helpful for...
• long time planning
• differentiating instruction (inter-
• vention/remediation/acceleration)

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Curriculum Overview

• Curriculum Benchmark Assessments (CBA)
• Provide opportunities for formative
• assessments based on objectives
• taught in the HAPG per 9 wks cycles
• Available in English and Spanish
• for grades 3, 4, 5 (Reading) and
• Grade 4 Writing
• Helpful for...
• determining student strengths
• and weaknesses
• identifying mastery of specific
• objectives
• assessing instructional practices
• planning for instruction including
• intervention and/or remediation

Curriculum Benchmark Assessment Grade 4
English Writing Fall 2008 - 1st 9-weeks Houston
Independent School District
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Curriculum Overview
Whats New in the CBAs

• More passages per test
• More items in each test
• Power Objectives are tested
• Created through CCAP
• Some selections/test items
• are HISD generated others
• based on Region IV material
• and some are from CCAP bank

Curriculum Benchmark Assessment Grade 4
English Writing Fall 2008 - 1st 9-weeks Houston
Independent School District
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Curriculum Overview

• ESL Component of Bilingual Education
• New ESL VAM with ELPS in blue font has been
  completed
• New ESL HAPGs per 9 wks cycles are being
  finalized
• (HAPGs will be available for grades K,
  1, 2 include modifications for ESL levels.)
• Training for the ESL document roll-out will be
  provided E-train registration required
• Helpful for...
• daily planning
• targeting content and language objectives
• developing academic language
• providing differentiated instruction (ESL levels)
• assessing learning

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Curriculum Overview

• Horizontal Alignment Planning Guide (HAPG)
• Provides a scope and sequence of the objectives
  to be covered by specific cycles
• Alerts to assessment requirements
• Establishes pre-requisites for students
• Provides teachers with background knowledge
  needing for planning and teaching objectives
• Suggests specific research-based strategies for
  delivery of instruction
• Suggests instructional resources to complement
  learning
• Helpful for...
• daily planning
• targeting specific objectives
• providing differentiated instruction
• assessing learning

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Curriculum Overview
Whats New in the HAPG

• Learning Foci
• Focus is on literary genres
• Objectives
• Sequence of objectives has been renewed
• Objectives have been re-bundled as needed
• Power Objectives have been identified with an
  icon è
• Time Allocation
• Time has been modified to 120-150
• minutes daily
• Number of lessons has been suggested
• Assessment Connections
• Connections to TAKS items and TPRI/
• Tejas LEE tasks have been listed

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Curriculum Overview
Whats New in the HAPG

• Instructional Considerations
• Pre-requisites have been included
• Content and academic vocabulary have been
  included
• Modifications for ELLs and Struggling students
  have been added in blue font
• Correlation to Social Studies have been made
• Instructional Strategies
• Literacy strategies have been included and
  identified with an icon
• Resources
• Correlations to each core reading program have
  been included (link)
• Additional resources have been linked or cited

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Curriculum Overview Highlights of the
First 9 Weeks HAPGs

• Kindergarten and First Grade
• Genres Realistic Fiction and Expository Text,
  and Folktales in 1st
• Foundation skills including phonics and
  phonological awareness, and print awareness
• Making connections and building background
  knowledge
• Literary elements including rhyme, alliteration,
  onomatopoeia
• Reading and writing routines
• Reading skills main idea/details drawing
  conclusions (and in 1st grade),
• Cultures and customs
• Language skills parts of speech-- nouns, verbs,
  plural nouns
• Second Grade
• Genres Realistic Fiction, Tall Tales, Expository
  Text (Informational text)
• Review of foundation skills taught in first grade
  (syllable types, spelling patterns, literary
• elements, decoding, etc.)
• Narrative text structures characterization,
  setting, problem, resolution
• Expository text structures and features
• Vocabulary building structural analysis
  (affixes)
• Reading comprehension through questioning
• Language/writing skills sentence and paragraph
  construction mechanics of writing

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Curriculum Overview Highlights of the
First 9 Weeks HAPGs

• Third Grade
• Genres Memoirs, Tall Tales, and Media Literacy
• Story elements
• Making connections and building background
  knowledge
• Figurative language imagery and simile
• Reading skills main idea fact/opinion
• Reading fluency
• Vocabulary building synonyms and antonyms
  structural analysis (affixes)
• Language/writing skills parts of speech verb
  tenses, singular and plural nouns the
• writing process writing conferences
• Fourth Grade
• Genres Short Story, Expository Text
  (Informational Text), Realistic Fiction
• Reading routines (Before/After/During)
• Narrative text structures characterization,
  setting, problem, plot, resolution
• Expository text features (navigational, graphic,
  and print) text structures (organizational
• patterns)
• Vocabulary building contextual clues and
  structural analysis use of resources
• Reading skills making inferences drawing
  conclusions summarizing

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Curriculum Overview Highlights of the
First 9 Weeks HAPGs

• Fourth Grade/continued
• Reading comprehension through questioning
• Reading Fluency
• Language/writing skills Types of sentences and
  sentence construction mechanics of
• writing parts of speech adjectives writing
  process paragraph construction writing logs
• (Response to literature Learning log
  Interactive journal) use of rubrics to assess
  writing
• Fifth Grade
• Genres Expository Text Realistic Fiction Oral
  Traditions/Cross Cultural Connections
• (Fables, Folktales, and Myths)
• Narrative text structures characterization,
  problem (types of conflicts) plot, resolution
• Expository text features and structures
• Vocabulary building structural analysis
• Reading skills main idea cause and effect
  fact and opinion
• Reading Fluency
• Language/writing skills mechanics of writing
  parts of speech pronouns, indirect
• objects 61 Traits of Writing

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Planning with
a HAPG

• What do I want students to learn?
• Finding a commonality in bundled objects
• Decomposing objectives
• How will I know that they have learned it?
• Will I use a summative or formative assessment?
• What type of an assessment tool will I use?
• How many items will I include?
• How will I grade, if needed?
• How will I teach the objectives?
• What considerations should I note?
• Which strategies will I use?
• What text will be used?
• What other resources will I need?
• What will I plan for before/during/and after
  reading/writing?
• What do I do if they have demonstrated
  understanding/mastery?
• How will I provide for intervention/remediation/ac
  celeration?

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Planning with
a HAPG
Planning activity with HAPG
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Curriculum Overview

• CBA Review Meetings
• September 11, 2008
• October 30, 2008
• January 22, 2008
• March 26, 2008
• 200-400 PM at HMWESC
• Language Arts Curriculum Planning Meetings
• September 30, 2008 (Cycle 2 HAPG)
• December 4, 2008 (Cycle 3 HAPG)
• February 24, 2008 (Cycle 4 HAPG)
• 400-630 PM at HMWESC
  
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  Registration on E-Train required

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Contacts

• Lauren Nguyen Elementary ELA/Reading Manager
  lnguyen_at_houstonisd.org
• For curriculum issues, please contact
• Dalma Marichal, Bilingual Liaison Manager
• dmaricha_at_houstonisd.org
• Annette Laprise, Content Specialist
• alaprise_at_houstonisd.org
• Carmen Alabarce, Content Specialist
• alabarc_at_houstonisd.org