Engage to Empower Literacy Night Linking Your Youth Lessons to Literacy Education New Salem Baptist Church October 17, 2019
Welcome ● Pastor Keith Troy, New Salem Baptist Church ● Dr. Talisa Dixon, CCS Superintendent ● Alesia Gillison, CCS Chief Engagement Officer
Academic Expectations ● Understanding the Complexity Leslie Kelly, CCS Elementary Curriculum Director ● Literacy Card Shuffle Jenny Nord, CCS Secondary Science Coordinator
Academic Expectations • Literacy being able to read, write, listen, and speak to gain knowledge about a specific subject • Fluency ability to read or express yourself easily and articulately • Close Reading developing an understanding of a text based on its small details and the larger ideas those details evoke or suggest
• Text written, printed, or visual work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form •Depth of Knowledge designates at what level students must know, understand, and be aware of what they are learning in order to attain and explain answers, outcomes, results, and solutions • Strategies a plan of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim
• Evidence anything that you see, experience, read, or are told that can be used to support reasoning • Philosophical Question open-ended question that uses the text material for support • Implicit Question requires analysis and interpretation of the text material • Explicit Question answer is found directly in the text material
Essential Academic Vocabulary What is it? ● Academic Vocabulary is defined as words that are traditionally used in academic dialogue and text. These types of words are used to explain a concept. They are not necessarily common or frequently encountered in informal conversation.
Essential Academic Vocabulary
Interactive Read Aloud What is it? ● During an interactive read aloud, the whole group of students are not silently listening to the teacher read. Instead, teachers carefully select text that will promote active listening and interactive discussion.
Interactive Read Aloud Why is it important? ● Reading aloud improves listening skills, builds vocabulary, aids reading comprehension, and has a positive impact on students’ attitudes toward reading. (Routman, 1994)
Interactive Read Aloud What does it look like? ● Teacher reads the text to the whole class for about 15 minutes. ● Pauses at predetermined places in the text to model higher level thinking strategies, ask students for comments, and invite brief discussion. ● Make sure the pauses are not too frequent or too long or it will disrupt the flow of the read aloud.
A Definition Theme: “An abstract concept broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work.” (Ohio Department of Education Glossary of Terms)
Theme in State Standards 3rd Grade Literary Standard RL.3.2a “Analyze literary text development: Determine a theme and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.”
We Could State a Theme... As an idea ■ Example: perseverance ■ Example: focus As a statement ■ Example: “When others can count on you to be excellent, opportunities will come.” ■ Example: “It is important to be the best in your area of expertise. The world will need you!”
Close Reading Text Excerpt
Close Reading REFLECTION What was the value of the re-read? How can this strategy help your students?
Three Levels of Questioning ● Explicit, Implicit, and Philosophical/Universal ● Questioning Activity
Questioning Activity: Sample Answers Jermaine’s Postscript To His Seventh -Grade Poem Assignment by Christopher Molnar “Ms. Tyler, the girl part was about Shantell. Please don’t tell anyone.” Explicit Question: Who wrote the poem? Jermaine Implicit Question: Why do you think Jermaine does not want his teacher to tell Shantell that he wrote a poem about her? Jermaine probably likes Shantell, but would be embarrassed if she knew. Philosophical/Universal Question: Why is so much poetry written about love? Poetry allows for expressions of emotions that you may not want to say aloud. Often love is one of those emotions that is hard to vocalize.
Questioning Activity: Sample Answers Fertility by Kirsten Beachy My Muscovy duck hatched seventeen ducklings — along with four chicks from eggs the hens snuck into her nest. I’m still waiting. Explicit Question: How many ducklings were hatched? seventeen Implicit Question: What do you think the narrator is still waiting for? She is waiting to have a baby/get pregnant? Philosophical/Universal Question: Should Mother’s Day/Father’s Day be national holidays when there are couples who are unable to have children? Yes. However, when the day is celebrated in a public setting, there needs to be acknowledgement of those still waiting to be parents.
Questioning Activity: Sample Answers Trust by Don Lee At the party, he tells her he’s a painter, meaning of houses. She misunderstands, assumes he’s an artist. Harmless, he thinks . Explicit Question: What is the man’s profession? house painter Implicit Question: Why does the man not correct the woman’s misunderstanding of his profession? He does not consider it a very serious misunderstanding and he may think she will like him more if he is an artist and not a house painter. Philosophical/Universal Question: Are you lying if you do not correct misunderstandings in communication? Why or Why not? Yes. Communication is both speaking and listening. If you know a person has listened to but not understood your message, you must correct it, even if you think the misunderstanding is harmless.
Vocabulary Review: Elementary: ● draw information Secondary: ● interpret ● evaluate
Thank You New Salem Baptist Church October 17, 2019
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