Purpose : 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!

Literacy is listening, viewing, thinking, expressing through multiple symbol systems, speaking, reading, and writing.

The Challenge is for – teachers to move from compliance to commitment and – students to move from compliance to engagement.

In schools that improve literacy.. 1. research based intervention is consistently implemented, monitored, and evaluated. 2. all teachers k-12 consistently teach, model, and practice literacy strategies before, during, and after reading.

Align daily work with reading & thinking expectations of assessment. Non-fiction reading =non-fiction on assessment Levels of questions=levels of questions on assessment

Literacy Development Tasks Primary Grades Phonics Phonemic awareness (vocabulary, fluency and comprehension also) Grades 3 and up Vocabulary Fluency Comprehension

Community of Learners Classroom Community StudentText Academic safety Psychological safety Knowledge, content, vocabulary background Structure, Vocabulary Motivation: choice, clear goals Strategies, motivation Relevancy, respect Literacy enrichedCultureRigor, accessibility

Commitment to Literacy is…… integrated language arts & content print & literacy rich classrooms arts, and technology for accessing, understanding, and communicating reading to and with students daily students reading independently with accountability writing about reading teaching, modeling, practicing literacy strategies aligning resources with belief about literacy

Science Venn Diagram & Compare and Contrast Paragraph

Intervention: Scope Magazine & Readers Handbook

Mathematics Journal

Classroom Libraries

Accountable Independent Reading

Accountability for Independent Reading

Read to in Global Studies

Word Wall in Science

Root words, prefixes, suffixes

First Grade Word Wall

Student Made Word Wall

First Grade Expository Writing

Multiple Symbol Systems to Learn Science Vocabulary

Parent Engagement

Using Literature to Scaffold to Authentic Work

Main idea, supporting details

JHMS Media Center Marketing Books

SLHS Media Center Marketing Books

Literacy Leadership Modeling

Daily Literacy Non-negotiables Print, literacy rich classroom Use processes of literacy: reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, thinking, expressing through multiple symbol systems Read to and with students Teach, model, practice strategies of expert readers and writers Read by themselves with accountability K-1 Phonics and phonemic awareness

Strategies of Expert Readers Prediction: What is it about? What will happen next? Visualization: picturing the story Connection:self, text, world Questioning: asking questions Clarification: answering own questions with context clues, pictures, rereading, etc. Evaluation: thinking before, during, after reading

Strategies Monitoring comprehension Recognizing text structure Summarizing Using graphic/semantic organizers