1. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Licensing You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the following manner:  This work is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. With the understanding that: For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 1

2. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Core Knowledge Language Arts Introduction to the Skills Strand Session 4 EngageNY.org

3. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Online Parking Lot Please go to engageny.org/maynti and select “Online Parking Lot” for any NYSED-related questions. Thank You! EngageNY.org

4. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Objectives In this session: you will be able to identify the instructional and support materials required for Skills strand implementation. participants will be able to identify key features of the Teachers Guide. 4

5. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Skills Strand Design Principle Review CKLA materials will explicitly support: distinguishing between sounds and spellings using the most frequent or least ambiguous sounds first opportunities for intensive practice to build reliability and automaticity direct instruction of blending and segmenting oral language skills that underlie parallel reading and writing skills basic skills that are the foundation to fluent writing 5

6. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Skills Stand Teacher Materials Teacher Guide Big Books (K, 1) Media Disk Sound Posters and Sound Cards (K) Code Flip Books (1,2) Large Letter Cards (K,1) Blending Picture Cards (K) Timeline Posters and Cards (2) 6 Teacher Guides Student Workbooks Student Decodable Readers

7. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Teacher Guide The purpose of the Teacher Guide is to provide lesson plans for Skills Strand lessons. o Central Component for Skills Strand  Provides lessons, objectives, and activities and resources to guide instruction  One guide per unit of instruction Kindergarten -10 units First Grade-7 units Second Grade-6 units 7 K1 2

8. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Big Books The purpose of the Big Books is for the teacher to model reading for students.  Teacher will model best reading practices for students during Demonstration Story lessons  There are 5 titles in kindergarten and 3 titles in grade 1  Students have matching readers for most units  Available for projection 8 K1

9. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Sound Posters & Cards The purpose of the Sound Posters & Sound Cards is to provide a visual reminder of the code knowledge students have been taught.  Posters are mounted when a sound is taught for the first time.  Sound cards are added as each spelling and alternative spelling is taught.  Begins in Kindergarten Unit 3, Lesson 5  10 vowel posters, 25 consonant posters 9 K

10. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Code Flip Books & Letter Cards The purpose of the Code Flip Book and Cards is to provide students with a visual guide of sounds and spellings taught.  Set of two Flip Books (one for vowels, one for consonants)  Used in First and Second Grades  Contains both basic and alternative spellings 10 1 2

11. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Large Card Letters The Large Card Letters are used for teaching and reviewing sounds and spellings and chaining activities.  Used for sounds and spellings review  Students use cards to engage in spelling/chaining activities during warm-up activities  Note that vowel cards are shaded.  Line drawn at bottom of card indicates directionality 11 K1

12. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Blending Picture Cards The purpose of the Blending Picture Cards is to support blending activities by using images to serve as a visual cue for blending a word.  Supports blending on one side and matching segmented word on other side  Used for various blending practice activities in kindergarten 12 K

13. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Timeline Posters and Cards The purpose of the Timeline Posters and Cards is to help students understand the content of context of CKLA stories in Grade 2.  The cards feature an image and a sentence depicting an event from the Student Reader. 13 2

14. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Skills Strand Student Materials Student Workbooks Student Readers Student chaining folders (K) Sound Code Charts 14

15. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Student Workbooks The purpose of the Student Workbook is to provide practice and reinforcement for students after a lesson.  One copy per student, per unit  Workbook page copies and answer keys are located in the Teacher’s Guide. 15 K1 2

16. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Student Readers The purpose of the Student Readers is to provide practice on recently taught spellings through 100% decodable text.  One per student, per unit beginning with Kindergarten Unit 6  New spellings taught in the unit are printed in bold throughout the reader to help students master material  Students use readers for partner reading, independent reading and CLOSE reading lessons  Take-home copies of some stories in the student workbook 16 K1 2

17. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Chaining Folders & Small Letter Cards The purpose of the Student Chaining Folder & Small Letter Cards is to allow students to practice sound spellings taught.  One per student  Used for chaining activities in Kindergarten starting in Unit 5  Students manipulate small letter cards to practice blending and segmenting 17 K

18. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Additional Support Materials Separate online resource Consists of assessments, activities, and lessons Use to reinforce, re- teach, or progress monitor students Online resource Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Reader’s Theater Fluency Packets Assessment and Remediation Guide 18

19. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ The Skills Strand Teacher Guide Components The purpose of the Teacher Guide is to provide lesson plans for Skills strand lessons. 19 K1 2 1.Unit Introduction 2. Alignment Chart 3. Pacing Chart 4. Lesson components 5. Student Performance Task Assessments 6. Pausing Points 7. The Appendix 8. Teacher Resources

20. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Unpacking the Skills Strand Teacher Guide Participants will learn more about the teacher’s guide by digging in deep to find and learn about: 1.Unit Introduction and Alignment Chart 2.Tools for planning: Table of Contents, Pacing Chart and “At a Glance box” 3.Lesson components 4.Student Performance Task Assessments 5. Pausing Points, The Appendix, Teacher Resources 20

21. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Activity: Unpacking the Teacher Guide 1.Use your Unit 1 Skills Teacher’s Guide. 2.At least 5 people at table. If there are more than 5 people at a table, 2, but no more than 2, can work on a card. 3.Choose one of the five Teacher’s Guide Activity Cards from the center of your table. 4.Locate the section or sections of the Skills Strand Teacher’s Guide listed on the front side of the Teacher’s Guide Activity card (you may want to tab your sections). 5.Complete the task or answer the question on the back of the card. 6.Record your answers to the task or question a) on a post-it and b) individual recording sheet in workbook. 7. When instructed to do so by facilitator, be prepared to: a) share your findings with the rest of your table; b) add your post-it definition of section to appropriate chart paper around the room. 21

22. © 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Debrief on the Skills Strand Teacher’s Guide What have you learned? Share with your table: With the whole table, take turns sharing about the components of the Teacher’s Guide that you worked on. Share with the room: Add corresponding post-it’s to Skills Unit Guide component posters around room. 22