Literacy Leader

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• Literacy Leader
• Fall Cycle Meeting
• October 31, 2005

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Agenda

• ISAT Update (Stacey)
• Using Science and Social Studies (Rose, Pam, and
  Deb)
• Gretchen Courtney highlights
• Quincy Site Visit highlights
• Literacy Project (Deb)
• Miscellaneous (Deb)
• Woodridge Site Visit
• ARC Update
• Time Study
• Others to be determined
• Feedback

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ISAT - 2006

• Reading Format

Taken from ISBE web site and Gretchen Courtney
and Associates, Ltd.
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Distribution

• 70 Reading
• 14 Vocabulary
• 56 Comprehension
• 30 Literature
• 22 Elements
• 8 Genre

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Changes 05 to 06
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Testing Sessions
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Third Grade Example

• Vocabulary Development
• He gazed at the lighted window. What would one
  do if he gazed?
• A. Look at the building
• B. Think about a friend
• C. Build a home
• Talk about school

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Fourth Grade Example

• Variety of Literary Works
• The passage Damon and Pythias is an example of
  which genre?
• Poem
• Myth
• Drama
• Essay

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The Paired, Functional Passage

• Addresses the following IAF-R assessment
  objectives
• Determine whether a set of complex directions is
  complete and, therefore, clear
• Use information in charts, graphs, tables,
  diagrams, maps, and headings
• Draw conclusions from information in charts, maps
  and graphs, etc.
• Identify or summarize the order of events in a
  story of non-fiction account.

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Extended Response

• Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations
  about the text and support them with textual
  evidence
• Make comparisons across reading passages
• Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant
  information

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Extended Response Rubric

• To Score a 4
• Answer the prompt by discussing Key Ideas
• Include relevant Text References
• Make Connections or Draw Conclusions
• Does not have to be, but may be a personal
  experience
• Extend rather than simply state ideas
• Balance text references and connections

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ER Example Making Connections

• Flood A short story about a family and the
  hard decisions they face while evacuating their
  home because of an impending flood.
• Grandmother didnt want to leave the house
  because her husband died there (key idea and text
  reference)
• . . .and she thought the levee wouldnt break
  (conclusion drawn by the student implied in
  text)
• . . .so she stood up to the family (extension)

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The Brain Creating Pathways
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Creating Myelination
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For more information contact

• Judie Steinhauser
• jsteinh_at_isbe.net
• 217.782.4823

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Gretchen Courtney Associates, Ltd.

• Predicting
• Summarizing
• Connecting
• Inferring
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Literary Elements
• Extended Response

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Extended Response

• If you hang it, they will learn
• Be Quick, Be Slick
• 3 Steps of Instruction
• Sharing by Rose

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Summarizing Activities

• Previews Text
• Examines first and last sentence
• Uses repeated words and synonyms
• Categorizes similar words and details
• Notices transitions
• Combines summarizing techniques
• Analyzes text
• Sharing by Pam

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Exploring Leveled Text

• Look specifically for examples to use for
  summarizing activities
• Examining first and last sentence
• Using repeated words and synonyms
• Categorizing similar words and details

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Quincy Visit Highlights

• Comprehensive Literacy Model in Quincy
• Model classrooms
• Literacy coach
• Materials, and more materials
• Reflection journal
• Guided reading and writing workshop model
• Full implementation of Reading Recovery
• Intervention in 3-6 grades

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Quincy Visit Highlights

• Teacher is always teaching/observing
• Teacher knows what to observe and thinking about
  the next best teaching move using data collected
  while observing making teaching specific for that
  child/group
• Children are always on task. Literacy corners
  work to help the children practice reading and
  writing.
• Children are independent. They know what to do
  and the procedures to follow.

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Intervention Specialists (Grades 3-6)

• Individually designed using assessment results
• 30 minute daily sessions
• Non fiction texts only Short -variety (so they
  can read to learn)
• Lesson Framework
• Read 5-6 short passages (familiar reading)
• Write story (Several sentences)
• Read new passages (3 different passages)

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108 Literacy Project
Principals
At Risk Staff
Literacy Leaders
Classroom Teachers
Definition of Literacy
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Literacy Project

• Personal Definition of Literacy
• Elements of literacy
• Read colored articles
• Regroup and share important points
• Revise Definition of Literacy
• Identify key elements of literacy
• Submit input

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Miscellaneous

• Woodridge Site Visit
• ARC Update
• Time Study
• Others to be determined by group
• Feedback

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Woodridge Visit

• School wide intervention
• whole school participates
• separate from their reading time
• supplemental
• Teachers teaching the skills
• (dont deal with comprehension) comprehension
  is not listed as a skill
• Learning to read
• get to level in which was determine appropriate
  (goal)
• then go into enrichment group

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Woodridge Visit

• Program is (7 years) a way to address those kids
  that were not reading. The school was whole
  language, but werent getting results. The
  school felt skills were needed. Students not
  reading set targets in skills such as decoding.
  Once students reach their target then they are
  placed in enrichment groups. There are 2
  enrichment parts comprehension and genres.

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Woodridge Visit

• November 1 After school planning meeting
• November 14 All day visit
• TBD After visit planning meeting (?)

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STUDENTS
STUDENTS
Service Team Eval/Cons
Regular Education
SpEd Liaison
PRINCIPAL
A-R Staff
ARC Request
Teacher
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Service Team Eval/Cons
Regular Education
SpEd Liaison
PRINCIPAL
A-R Staff
ARC Request
Teacher
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Diagnostic Data Gathering
DRAFT
Initial Assessment
Further Assessment?
No
Yes
Summary Report (Referral/Progress)
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Diagnostic Data Gathering

• ARS learning the Diagnostic Process
• AIMS WEB screening tool (web based)
• KEY MATH (7-8 math)
• Grade A Plus
• Diagnostic tool that pinpoints skills
• Web based program
• Child find implemented in January
  (Eventually all off of a central server)

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Child Find Process
DRAFT

• Annual Data (Collected in August by AR Staff and
  Reviewed at First ARC Meeting)
• ISAT
• Previous Attendance
• Literacy ID (Previous Year)
• Summer School Results
• Sped ID
• Spring ICDI
• Continuing Data (Collected Periodically by AR
  Staff to ID Students for ARC Consideration)
• Current Attendance
• Social/Emotional
• Counselors help develop a taxonomy for teachers,
  administrators and AR staff to enter in Skyward
• Entered on Skyward by Health Clerk, teacher,
  office, etc.
• Medical Data
• Must be standardized across district (See John)
• Entered on Skyward by Health Clerk, teacher,
  office, etc.
• Current Academic Data
• SAI Assessments or Alternative Assessments

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Provider

• Interventionist
• short term
• individually designed
• accelerated progress expected
• intensive instruction
• monitored progress
• monitored intervention

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Other Roles

• Class size reduction teacher
• Small group supplemental service
• Assessor
• Data analyzer manager
• Case manager

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Time Study

• Corporate Time
• Electronic calendar
• Monitoring device
• Lexicons

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Next Session Dec. 19

• Time should be spent