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Title: Houston I'S'D' Elementary ELAReading Department
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Houston I.S.D.Elementary ELA/Reading Department
- CLEAR UPDATE
- ELA Lead Teacher Meeting
- Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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Curriculum Overview
- Update on Documents
- Year-At-A-Glance (YAAG)
- TEKS/TAKS Correlations Document
- Vertical Alignment Matrix (VAM)
- Horizontal Alignment Planning Guide (HAPG)
- CBAs
- ESL Component of Bilingual Education
- Planning for Instruction
- Highlights of First Cycle HAPGs Grades K-5
- Curriculum Training Opportunities
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Curriculum Overview
- Year-At-A-Glance (YAAG)
- Provides a big picture view
- Helpful for...
- long time planning
- securing materials needed
- instruction
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Curriculum Overview
- TEKS/ TAKS Correlations Document
- Provides a correlation between HISD objectives,
TEKS and objectives tested (such as in TAKS) - Includes Power Objectives identified with an
icon è - Helpful for...
- long time planning
- targeting instruction
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Curriculum Overview
- Vertical Alignment Matrix (VAM)
- Provides an incremental view of HISD
- objectives showing their growth and
- complexity across grade levels
- (Pre-K to 5th 5th to 8th 8th to 12th)
- Includes Power Objectives identified
- with an icon è
- Helpful for...
- long time planning
- differentiating instruction (inter-
- vention/remediation/acceleration)
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Curriculum Overview
- Curriculum Benchmark Assessments (CBA)
- Provide opportunities for formative
- assessments based on objectives
- taught in the HAPG per 9 wks cycles
- Available in English and Spanish
- for grades 3, 4, 5 (Reading) and
- Grade 4 Writing
- Helpful for...
- determining student strengths
- and weaknesses
- identifying mastery of specific
- objectives
- assessing instructional practices
- planning for instruction including
- intervention and/or remediation
Curriculum Benchmark Assessment Grade 4
English Writing Fall 2008 - 1st 9-weeks Houston
Independent School District
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Curriculum Overview
Whats New in the CBAs
- More passages per test
- More items in each test
- Power Objectives are tested
- Created through CCAP
- Some selections/test items
- are HISD generated others
- based on Region IV material
- and some are from CCAP bank
Curriculum Benchmark Assessment Grade 4
English Writing Fall 2008 - 1st 9-weeks Houston
Independent School District
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Curriculum Overview
- ESL Component of Bilingual Education
- New ESL VAM with ELPS in blue font has been
completed - New ESL HAPGs per 9 wks cycles are being
finalized - (HAPGs will be available for grades K,
1, 2 include modifications for ESL levels.) - Training for the ESL document roll-out will be
provided E-train registration required - Helpful for...
- daily planning
- targeting content and language objectives
- developing academic language
- providing differentiated instruction (ESL levels)
- assessing learning
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Curriculum Overview
- Horizontal Alignment Planning Guide (HAPG)
- Provides a scope and sequence of the objectives
to be covered by specific cycles - Alerts to assessment requirements
- Establishes pre-requisites for students
- Provides teachers with background knowledge
needing for planning and teaching objectives - Suggests specific research-based strategies for
delivery of instruction - Suggests instructional resources to complement
learning - Helpful for...
- daily planning
- targeting specific objectives
- providing differentiated instruction
- assessing learning
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Curriculum Overview
Whats New in the HAPG
- Learning Foci
- Focus is on literary genres
- Objectives
- Sequence of objectives has been renewed
- Objectives have been re-bundled as needed
- Power Objectives have been identified with an
icon è - Time Allocation
- Time has been modified to 120-150
- minutes daily
- Number of lessons has been suggested
- Assessment Connections
- Connections to TAKS items and TPRI/
- Tejas LEE tasks have been listed
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Curriculum Overview
Whats New in the HAPG
- Instructional Considerations
- Pre-requisites have been included
- Content and academic vocabulary have been
included - Modifications for ELLs and Struggling students
have been added in blue font - Correlation to Social Studies have been made
- Instructional Strategies
- Literacy strategies have been included and
identified with an icon - Resources
- Correlations to each core reading program have
been included (link) - Additional resources have been linked or cited
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Curriculum Overview Highlights of the
First 9 Weeks HAPGs
- Kindergarten and First Grade
- Genres Realistic Fiction and Expository Text,
and Folktales in 1st - Foundation skills including phonics and
phonological awareness, and print awareness - Making connections and building background
knowledge - Literary elements including rhyme, alliteration,
onomatopoeia - Reading and writing routines
- Reading skills main idea/details drawing
conclusions (and in 1st grade), - Cultures and customs
- Language skills parts of speech-- nouns, verbs,
plural nouns - Second Grade
- Genres Realistic Fiction, Tall Tales, Expository
Text (Informational text) - Review of foundation skills taught in first grade
(syllable types, spelling patterns, literary - elements, decoding, etc.)
- Narrative text structures characterization,
setting, problem, resolution - Expository text structures and features
- Vocabulary building structural analysis
(affixes) - Reading comprehension through questioning
- Language/writing skills sentence and paragraph
construction mechanics of writing
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Curriculum Overview Highlights of the
First 9 Weeks HAPGs
- Third Grade
- Genres Memoirs, Tall Tales, and Media Literacy
- Story elements
- Making connections and building background
knowledge - Figurative language imagery and simile
- Reading skills main idea fact/opinion
- Reading fluency
- Vocabulary building synonyms and antonyms
structural analysis (affixes) - Language/writing skills parts of speech verb
tenses, singular and plural nouns the - writing process writing conferences
- Fourth Grade
- Genres Short Story, Expository Text
(Informational Text), Realistic Fiction - Reading routines (Before/After/During)
- Narrative text structures characterization,
setting, problem, plot, resolution - Expository text features (navigational, graphic,
and print) text structures (organizational - patterns)
- Vocabulary building contextual clues and
structural analysis use of resources - Reading skills making inferences drawing
conclusions summarizing
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Curriculum Overview Highlights of the
First 9 Weeks HAPGs
- Fourth Grade/continued
- Reading comprehension through questioning
- Reading Fluency
- Language/writing skills Types of sentences and
sentence construction mechanics of - writing parts of speech adjectives writing
process paragraph construction writing logs - (Response to literature Learning log
Interactive journal) use of rubrics to assess
writing - Fifth Grade
- Genres Expository Text Realistic Fiction Oral
Traditions/Cross Cultural Connections - (Fables, Folktales, and Myths)
- Narrative text structures characterization,
problem (types of conflicts) plot, resolution - Expository text features and structures
- Vocabulary building structural analysis
- Reading skills main idea cause and effect
fact and opinion - Reading Fluency
- Language/writing skills mechanics of writing
parts of speech pronouns, indirect - objects 61 Traits of Writing
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Planning with
a HAPG
- What do I want students to learn?
- Finding a commonality in bundled objects
- Decomposing objectives
- How will I know that they have learned it?
- Will I use a summative or formative assessment?
- What type of an assessment tool will I use?
- How many items will I include?
- How will I grade, if needed?
- How will I teach the objectives?
- What considerations should I note?
- Which strategies will I use?
- What text will be used?
- What other resources will I need?
- What will I plan for before/during/and after
reading/writing? - What do I do if they have demonstrated
understanding/mastery? - How will I provide for intervention/remediation/ac
celeration?
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Planning with
a HAPG
Planning activity with HAPG
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Curriculum Overview
- CBA Review Meetings
- September 11, 2008
- October 30, 2008
- January 22, 2008
- March 26, 2008
- 200-400 PM at HMWESC
- Language Arts Curriculum Planning Meetings
- September 30, 2008 (Cycle 2 HAPG)
- December 4, 2008 (Cycle 3 HAPG)
- February 24, 2008 (Cycle 4 HAPG)
- 400-630 PM at HMWESC
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Registration on E-Train required
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Contacts
- Lauren Nguyen Elementary ELA/Reading Manager
lnguyen_at_houstonisd.org - For curriculum issues, please contact
- Dalma Marichal, Bilingual Liaison Manager
- dmaricha_at_houstonisd.org
- Annette Laprise, Content Specialist
- alaprise_at_houstonisd.org
- Carmen Alabarce, Content Specialist
- alabarc_at_houstonisd.org
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