ARI Strategies

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ARI Strategies
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What is the Alabama Reading Initiative?

• a statewide K-12 program
• The goal of the ARI is to significantly improve
  reading instruction and ultimately achieve 100
  literacy among public school students.
• Offers training for teachers helps them teach
  reading in proven and effective ways.

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Characteristics of Skillful Readers according to
ARI

• Skillful readers demonstrate
• Accuracy
• Fluency
• Active building of meaning
• Self-regulation

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Three Targets

• Strengthen reading instruction in the early
  grades
• Expand students comprehension levels
• Intervene with struggling readers

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Eight Modules for Teacher Training

• Language development and vocabulary
• Phonemic awareness and phonics
• Concepts of print
• Comprehension strategies
• Reading/writing connection
• Formal assessment
• Informal assessment
• Effective intervention

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What is MMGW Making Middle Grades Work?

• 1. Read the equivalent of 25 books per year
  across the curriculum.
• 2. Write weekly in all classes.
• 3. Use reading and writing strategies to enhance
  learning in all classes.
• 4. Write research papers in all classes.

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Pre- Assess

• When we catch fish,
• we bait the hook with what
• the fish like
• not what
• the fisherman likes.

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Anticipation Guides
help to engage students in thought and discussion
about ideas and concepts that they will encounter
in the text.

•   Daniels Story    
•     Agree     
      Disagree                        
• Power eventually corrupts the people who have it.
• Killing someone is always wrong.
• One must take a stand against injustice, even if
  the personal cost is great.
• Moral courage is more difficult to accomplish
  than physical courage.
• Evil often spirals out of control.

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Conversations Across Time
helps students to develop deeper insights by
making connections between and across texts from
different time periods in response to a common
topic, theme, or essential question.
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Conversations Across Time
Romeo and Juliet
Parvana Breadwinner
Andy Warhol
Monet
Is the world a fair and just place?
What is art?
Squirrel Dogs Life
Jackson Pollock
Your Experience
Your Experience
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Frame of Reference - (KWL)
How I know..
What I know..
Vietnam War
TOPIC
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Frame of Reference - (KWL)
My dad was a college student at the Time
Participated in the peace movement
How I know..
America got involved, but it was an unpopular war
and divided our country more and more as time
passed a major peace movement was born (began in
colleges universities)
What I know..
Vietnam War
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3 Truths and a FIB

• Edgar Allan Poe was in the military for a short
  time.
• Edgar Allan Poe married his cousin, Virginia
  Clemm.
• Edgar Allan Poe died mysteriously while wearing
  another mans clothes.
• Edgar Allan Poe was named after a character in
  Hamlet.

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During Reading
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Most Important Word

• We the People of the United States, in Order to
  form a perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
  domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
  defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure
  the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
  Posterity, do ordain and establish this
  Constitution for the United States of America.

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R.A.F.T. for Romeo Juliet
ROLE
Audience
Format
TOPIC
Was Romeo Really the right Guy for Me?
Juliet
Self
Diary Entry
Tragic Tale of Romeo Juliet
Traveling Minstrel
Whomever will Listen
Song
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Are we asking the right questions?
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Blooms Taxonomy (Revised)
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• Complexity vs. More Difficult
• Question
• Name all of the Presidents of the U.S. ?

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• Differentiation
• Complexity vs. More Difficult
• More Difficult Question
• Name all the Presidents of the U.S. and the years
  they served and their wifes name and their
  birthday and their pets, and what was their
  favorite meal?
• (You may have to use
• the computer to find the answers)

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• Differentiation
• Complexity vs. More Difficult
• More Complex Question
• Choose your favorite U.S. President and read his
  inaugural address. What is the single most
  important word in the speech? Why? How does
  that word relate to the nation at the time of the
  address? How does it relate to our world today?

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THINK- TAC- TOE
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Interactive Notebook
The left side of the notebook is used solely for
the purpose of the students individual
interaction with the information on the right
page.  
The right side of the notebook is used to record
notes on a mini-lesson, lecture, reading, class
discussion, etc. 
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What about Math?
Write and solve your own problem.
Paul has a bag with 8 cubes all the same size 1
red, 4 yellow, and 3 blue. He chooses a blue cube
without looking and does not put it back in the
bag. What is the probability of choosing a yellow
cube after the blue cube has been removed?

• The Futures Channel

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Plant
VOCABULARY
Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis Chloroplast Cell Wall Endoplasmic
Reticulum Plant Animal
Chloroplast
Cell Wall
Animal
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SQ3R

• Before you read,
• Survey the chapter
• Question while you are surveying
• When you begin toRead
• Recite after you've read a section
• Review an ongoing process

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Differentiation Exit Strategies

• One minute Quiz
• Exit cards
• 3-2-1

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Differentiation
Start Slowly, it doesnt matter where you begin
as long as you begin!!