Tonight's focus is redesigned curriculum planning, using loose parts in different ways, a structured, teacher-guided inquiry, and a lesson sequence to support students in creating more thoughtful on-line responses.
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Langley 3 Igniting a Passion for Literacy
1. How are all your students included
in meaningful reading and writing
throughout the day?
How does your formative
assessment today influence what
you do tomorrow?
What have you tried? How did it
go?
2. Igniting a Passion for Literacy,
Part 3
Langley Elementary Schools
Sept 28, Oct 18, Jan 19, Apr 12
Faye Brownlie
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4. Your Class Profile
• What are the strengths of your class?
– Think of 2 or 3!
– What are you celebraIng that they have learned?
• What are the areas you are wanIng to stretch or
strengthen this term?
– Choose no more than 2☺
• What is your plan?
5. When planning, consider…
• Big Ideas
– Stories and texts
– PerspecIve
– Language and its use
– Wondering
• Curricular Competencies
– Comprehend and connect
– Create and communicate
• Content
– Story/text
– Strategies and processes
– Language features, structures and convenIons
7. Oral Storytelling – Bev Marisco,
Campbell River
• Read class a FN story about local animals
hiding in the forest.
• Boys hid the animals in the forest because a
big flood was happening. One of the boys had
recently seen the flooding of the Campbell
River.
• It looked like chaos but they were reenacIng a
flood!
18. Belonging – grades 2/3
Michelle Hikida
• Structured Inquiry
– All teacher quesIons
• EssenIal quesIons
– What is the best part of you?
– What are your giKs?
– Who is the person you want to be?
31. How can we support our learners in
moving beyond the lines in their
written response to text?
• Leslie Leitch, Nakusp
• Grade 6/7
• In preparaIon for on-line response posts
• Text: A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
36. • Big ideas
• DescripIve
• AdjecIves
• Word choice
• Supported inferences
• EmoIons – felt
• Touched hearts
• Clear examples of
(emoIons, happenings)
• PersonificaIon
• Metaphor – simile
• Comparison
• Thinking like someone else
• Imagine
37. The Sequence
• Whip around – catch up on the story
• Explode the sentence
• Write to show you understand – move beyond a
retelling, take a risk, go deep, explain why what
happens maGers and to whom
• Share a phrase, a word, a sentence that is powerful in
your wriIng
• Make a class list of what counts – beginning criteria
• Use those phrases to make a class found poem
• Reorganize twice to make the poem flow
42. The next day…
• Review the criteria and reorganize into categories
• Read the next chapter
• Have students meet in small groups
• Provide a choice of 2-3 sentences for students to
explode in small groups
• Students write a draK for their on-line post
• Students idenIfy, alone, then with a partner,
where their wriIng has achieved the criteria
• What works? What’s next?
• Students edit for sentences, grammar, and post