Shelton Intermediate School has initiated a Literacy Team to promote active literacy in every classroom for all students across the disciplines. This presentation is based on current research and provides a framework and strategies to promote literacy practices building wide across every discipline.

1. Building Based Literacy Strategies Across the Content Areas SIS Professional Development November 4, 2008 Provided by the SIS Literacy Team

3. Goal: Closing the SIS Achievement Gap With Direct Vocabulary Instruction Techniques and Tools to Improve Reading Comprehension and Vocabulary Development Across the Content Areas

30. Now, to the “How To”…

33. Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term. Emancipation To free someone from bondage Czar Alexander “emancipated”, or freed the Russian serfs in 1861. Abraham Lincoln “emancipated”, or freed the slaves in the south in 1863.

34. Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words . Emancipation To free someone from bondage Notes: Emancipation became the law when the 13 th Amendment freed the slaves after the Civil War

35. Ask Student to Compare with a Venn

36. Periodically ask students to discuss the terms with one another. Think Pair Share Let’s do a Frayer!

38. The Frayer Model

39. Definition Characteristics Examples Non-Examples Culture Culture is the total pattern of human behavior and its by-products Customs, beliefs, social forms and material traits of ethnic, racial, religious and social groups In the Mid-East many men wear robes to work. Many people in Asia eat with chop sticks. We live in a house. We wear clothes. We eat rice.

40. The Frayer Model Achievement Gap Your turn!

41. Involve students periodically in activities that allow them to learn terms. Vocabulary Charades Name That Category Draw Me Vocabulary Jeopardy (What is the Question?) Other PowerPoint Games

42. Vocabulary Jeopardy and other PowerPoint Games

44. Building Essential Vocabulary Lists What have we done and where do we go from here?

48. Lecture Reading Audiovisual Demonstration Discussion Group Practice by Doing Teach Others / Immediate Application 5% 10% 20% 30% 50% 75% 90% Average Retention Rate After 24 Hours Power of Collaboration

52. Other versions of Vocabulary Building Templates Where can I find these templates? Others and some more … Go to the SIS LMC Website / Teacher’s Toolkit

54. Concept Definition Mapping

56. Democracy Comparisons

57. Verbal and Visual Word Association

59. Latitude Visual Representation Definition Personal Association or Characteristic

60. Reading Quest / Making Sense in Social Studies

62. Texas Region 13 Education Resource Center Word: In my own words: __________________________________ _______________ _ is a synonym. _______________ _ is an antonym. Picture:

63. The Frayer Model Perdurable (To become more durable) To ingrain in my memory so well that I will not forget it.