Updates in Secondary Literacy and Professional Learning through FLaRE

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Updates in Secondary Literacy and Professional
Learning through FLaRE

• Enrique A. Puig, Director,
• Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence Center
• University of Central Florida
• 22nd Annual SIM Update
• Altamonte Springs, Florida

Presentation can be downloaded at flare.ucf.edu
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History

• Purpose
• Collaboration with content area educators
• Benefits

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Professional Learning

• Content
• Vocabulary Comprehension
• Focus
• Rationales
• Instructional practices

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CAR-PD Introduction

• Purpose
• 150 hours course description
• 60 hours/ FLaRE vocabulary comprehension
• 40 hours of knowledge acquisition
• 20 hours of collaborative action research
• 60 hours Florida On-line Reading Professional
  Development (FOR-PD)
• 30 hours practicum (focus on teaching for
  vocabulary development and comprehending)

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Professional Learning Goals

• Developing a common language
• Investigating conditions for learning
• Understanding the role of motivation
• Understanding the role of interest
• Designing a supportive classroom

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Investigating Literacy Learning Across Content
Areas

• Strategic activities for sustaining literacy
  learning across content areas
• (e.g. word solving, self-correcting, searching)
• Strategic activities for expanding literacy
  learning across content areas
• (e.g. inferring, analyzing, synthesizing)

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Writing Across Content Areas

• Response to reading across content areas
• Narrative writing
• Non-narrative writing
• Persuasive writing

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Using Assessment to Guide Instruction Across
Content Areas

• Static assessment of learning
• Measuring change over time
• Documenting students strengths and needs
• Dynamic assessment for learning
• Honing focus-lessons to students strengths and
  needs

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Guiding Learners Across Content Areas

• Whole group instructional practices to support
  vocabulary development and comprehending
• Small group instructional practices to support
  vocabulary development and comprehending
• Amplifying instruction to accelerate learning

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Using LiteratureAcross Content Areas

• Content-related graphic novels
• Content-related young adult novels
• Content-related crossover picture books
• Content-related genres

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Supporting Non-traditional Learners Across
Content Areas

• Intentional and comprehensive instruction
• Intensive instruction
• Emotional and cognitive support

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Supporting English Language Learners Across
Content Areas

• Cognitive load
• Cultural load
• Language load
• Learning load

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Next Steps

• Questions and Discussion

Enrique A. Puig, Director, Florida Literacy and
Reading Excellence Center University of Central
Florida 22nd Annual SIM Update, Altamonte
Springs, Florida