Strategies to Improve Literacy Skills Across the Curriculum K12

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Strategies to Improve Literacy Skills Across the
Curriculum K-12

• Camden
• November 25, 2008
• Cathy Masse

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Welcome

• Find a seat.
• Make yourself comfortable.
• Fill out the charts on the wall.
• Touch each page of your handout.

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Introductions

• Name, grade level, hope to learn.
• Look at agenda, make adjustments.
• Working conditions.

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Did You Know
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The Paraprofessionals Role

• All staff need to work cooperatively
• How do you feel about working with other staff
  members?
• How do professional staff feel about working with
  support staff?
• Communication starter.

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Literacy and Sound Learning Strategies for
Thoughtful Learning

• Read Article (Doug Buehl)
• Each person shares
• Table comes up with one key leaning point
• Tables share with group

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Snow White

• One Two Table

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Keys to Learning Phonics

• 26 letters in the alphabet but 44 sounds
• Paring of sound to letters
• Strategies to sound out and decode words
• Concentrate on specific sounds Ed Helper (create
  practice sheets)
• Good readers spell better if they know phonics

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Keys to Learning Phonics

• Phonemic Awareness- Hear and manipulate sounds in
  words
• Slide show can be found on the web and you can
  actually see the presentation
• Slide show
• Video Presentation (click on video course)

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Phonetic Spelling
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Lexicon of Learning Terms (ASCD)
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Does This Make Sense to You?
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Break

• Meet back
• here at
• 1015

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Importance of Vocabulary

• Vocabulary is the key to accessing the meanings
  of words
• Expressive Vocabulary speaker or writer must
  produce label or meaning
• Receptive Vocabulary reader must associate
  meaning with a label

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Importance of Vocabulary

• Stat Comparison
• Welfare/Working Class/ Professional
• Grades 3-12 students learn an average of 3000
  vocabulary words a year

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Lunch

• See you back
• here at
• 1230

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Making Meaning Out of Reading

• Comprehension complex process that conveys
  meaning between a reader and text.
• Literacy Guide (readthewords.com)
• Prior Knowledge
• Good Decoders
• Practice
• Appropriate text
• Greece, NY Reading Strategies

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Comprehension Activity

• Watch video
• Line up
• Wrap line
• Share Learning Chip

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Prim Activity

• Read through your assigned sheet
• Share with a neighbor
• Share with your table
• Choose the three most useful strategies and
  share out

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Cube Activity

• Grab your stress reliever cube
• Design an activity you could use with your
  students.
• Share with table.
• Share with folks with the same cube.

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Exploring Free Resources

• Sheet posted on the Maine Support Network site
• Take a guided tour

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Complete EvaluationsPrize Giveaway

• Turn in Evaluation
• Draw Winners
• Whip to sum up the day

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10 Best Vocabulary Tips

• Practice Read, Read, Read (Bookmarks)
• Find how words are used
• Practice notecard word on one side, definition
  and sentence on other side
• Think of some words you know to describe the word
• Memory tricks (minister)
• Use on line dictionaries to look things up
• Play with words, (puzzlemaker)
• SAT word of the day
• On line games Text Twist and Bookworm
• Vocabulary Maps