Viking Literacy Plan

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Viking Literacy Plan
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What is the focus of your school literacy plan?

• Writing across the curriculum
• Increasing Academic Vocabulary in all disciplines
• Increasing literacy school wide

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What are the basic components of this plan?

• DEAR
• Informal, formal and on-demand writing in all
  departments
• Academic Word List
• Words of the Week
• Accelerated Reader

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What is your contribution to the plan this year?

• Implemented Accelerated Reader
• Hosted Kelly Gallagher workshop
• Implemented Academic Word List
• Revised Words of the Week
• Supplemented our library collection with 1200
  high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections

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What do you want to add to the plan in the future?

• Increase the use of EAP modules in all grades
• Student book club
• Increase Literacy Committee meetings
• Increase awareness and use of Literacy Binders
• Increase participation in staff book club

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What support do you need to accomplish these
plans?
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• Academic writing, reading, and inquiry
• are inseparably linked and all three are
• learned by not doing any one alone, but
• by doing them all at the same time.
• -James Reither