Courage To Teach Literacy in Content Areas

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Courage To Teach Literacy In the Content Areas
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To create a fail-safe system of literacy so that
all students have equal access to a standards
based curriculum.
Result Joyful, independent readers, writers, and
content learners!
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• In schools that improve literacy
• Research based intervention is consistently
  implemented, monitored, and evaluated.
• All teachers k-12 consistently teach, model, and
  practice literacy strategies before, during, and
  after reading.

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• The Challenge is for
• Teachers to move from compliance to commitment
• Students to move from compliance to engagement

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Literacy is.
listening, viewing, thinking,
speaking, reading, writing and
expressing through multiple symbol systems.
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Daily Non-Negotiables K-12

• Have a print rich literacy environment
• Use the seven processes of literacy
• Read to and with students
• Teach, model and practice strategies of expert
  readers and writers.
• Require accountable independent reading.
• Instruct phonics and phonemic awareness in K/1,
  and for others who have not reached mastery.

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Establishing A Common District Focus
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District Focus

• Superintendents Focus Jan. 06
• School Board support
• On the Road to Literacy District Theme for
  06-07
• Implementation of 90 minute reading block at
  elementary level
• Dr. Rose Taylor Staff Development
• Literacy Walk Through at each school
• Classrooms and Media Centers
• Literacy Module development and implementation
• Classroom Libraries
• Literacy Fidelity checks
• Inclusion of Media Centers/specialists

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Establishing A Common Literacy Vocabulary

• Literacy Definition
• High Yield Literacy Strategies
• Predicting
• Questioning
• Clarifying
• Evaluating
• Visualizing
• Connecting
• Summarizing
• Using Graphic Organizers

• Common Elements
• Literacy Self-assessment
• Literacy Walk Through Guide
• Fidelity Check Document
• Classroom Model Data Base

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Literacy CoachLearning Community

• 05-06 - 2 Middle School Coaches District
  Program Specialist for Reading and Language Arts
  Other 2 middle schools sent a non-funded coach
  to meetings
• 06-07 used new reading plan allocation to fund
  10 coaches (7 at secondary level, 3 at elementary
  level)
• 07-08 used reading allocation and other
  financial sources to fund 17 coaches one at
  each elementary, middle and high school - they
  also serve our other centers
• 08-09-continuation of 07-08

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District Reading Plan

• Coaches! Coaches! Coaches
• Use of Categorical Funds
• Literacy Coach Learning Community/Meetings
• Reading Endorsement CAR PD
• Development of Tier 2-3 Reading Program for High
  Schools
• Classroom Libraries
• Module Development, Implementation Evaluation
• 90 Minute Reading Block Fidelity
• Understanding how to use DIBELS information

Teach . . . Model . . . Practice
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Dr. Rosemarye Taylor

• Literacy Workshop with all instructional
  administrators
• 3-hour workshop with each elementary
  school,middle school, alternative school for
  disruptive students, ESE center, technical
  institute, and level 10 DJJ Center
• 2 3-hour workshop with each high school
• Literacy Walk-through at each of the above
  schools within 4 weeks of in school workshop
• Follow-up reports from each school Literacy
  Walk-through
• Facilitated Coaches in developing Literacy
  Modules
• Summary workshop with district instructional
  staff
• Strengths and areas for focus and improvement

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Modules

• Phase I
• Overview
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Print Rich Environment
• Fluency
• Questioning
• Assessment
• Reading/ Writing Connection

Phase II Classroom Libraries Phonemic Awareness
Phonics (elementary) Reference Research Writing
Process
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