LANGUAGE Updates and Additions: Resources for excellence

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LANGUAGE! Updates and Additions Resources for
excellence
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Objectives

• Access and use SharePoint for curriculum
  information and resources.
• Access and review various LANGUAGE! resources and
  be able to share information and resources with
  students.
• Implement the use of Student Data Folders to
  communicate achievement in relation to the
  curriculum and the state standards.

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LANGUAGE! SharePoint Website

• SharePoint can be access both at school and home.
• At school
• http//sharepoint.leeschools.net/dept/curr/lang
• At home
• http//extranet.leeschools.net/dept/curr/lang

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LANGUAGE! Support
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Quarterly Content Guide

• Quarterly Scope and Sequence
• Provided for each level
• Approximately three units per quarter
• Each unit contains six components at increasingly
  higher levels of complexity
• Pacing Guide Academic Plans

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Academic Plans

• Essential Knowledge and Key Terms/Vocabulary
• Sunshine State Standards
• Textbook Resources
• Additional Instructional Resources
• Assessments
• Pacing Guide Academic Plans

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Word Lists

• Five categories of word lists available for each
  unit
• Spelling Lists (2)
• Essential Words
• Unit Vocabulary
• Unit Bonus Words
• Vocabulary for Instructional and Challenge Text
• Word Lists

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LANGUAGE! Pacing Guide 2009 - 2010 School Year

• Guides teachers pacing
• Thirteen instructional days for each unit
• Week One Introduction to LANGUAGE! and Bridge
  Lessons
• Allows for make-up and assessment days
• Now includes multimedia research project
  presentation schedule
• Pacing Guide Academic Plans

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Welcome to LANGUAGE! A Brief Introduction to
Intensive Reading

• This introduction lesson shares with students
• How and why students are scheduled into LANGUAGE!
• Reviews on research of how and why LANGUAGE!
  works
• Lee Countys plan for success

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Bridge Lessons

• Introduces students to
• Prerequisite content and skills
• Components of the LANGUAGE! Instructional
  materials
• Key instructional activities in the curriculum
• Available for Books C and E
• Bridge Lessons into Books C E

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Bell Work

• Reinforces concepts student will see in the days
  lesson
• Two choices per lessonopportunity to
  differentiate
• Teacher feedback provided at the point where it
  appears in the lesson
• Directions for student and teacher are provided
• Timesaver
• Bellwork

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Homework

• Homework options available for the first time
• Two per lesson
• Opportunities for reinforcement and extension of
  daily lessons
• A tool for Perfect Practice
• Homework

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Lee County LANGUAGE! Substitute Plans

• Designed to be
• Two plans per Unit
• A 90-minute lesson
• Able to be instructed by someone not familiar
  with LANGUAGE!
• Graded in class
• Substitute Plans

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Curriculum and Staff Development Reading Skills
ProgramStudent Practice Activities

• The Student Practice Activities may be utilized
  in the classroom or by the student at home.
• Reinforces skills taught by LANGUAGE!
• http//curriculum.leeschools.net/words/words_main.
  htm

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District LANGUAGE! Full Curriculum Training
Follow-up Trainings

• Check the districts Enterprise Learning
  Management site (ELM) for district-wide trainings
  offered to support LANGUAGE! Implementation,
  including
• Full implementation training
• Follow-up training for Reading Endorsement
  Competency 1
• Monthly Folder Activity Make Takes
• Other possibilities

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Learning Labs

• Best practices for each strategy
• Model lessons provided by the District and School
  Reading Coaches
• Four lessons per level
• Lessons reflect best practices for crucial step
  concepts

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Florida Educators Portal to LANGUAGE!

• LANGUAGE! Teacher Edition
• LANGUAGE! Words for Teachers
• LANGUAGE! Instructional Planning Tools
• LANGUAGE! Student Editions
• LANGUAGE! Sortegories
• LANGUAGE! e-Reader

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Florida Educators Portal to LANGUAGE!

• Professional Development
• Implementation Tools
• Cross Content Area Tools
• LANGUAGE! Alignment to Reading Specifications and
  Sunshine State Standards
• FCAT Support Tools

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ANGEL Network for Professional Development

• Professional Development for LANGUAGE! is
  available online through the Sopris West
  LANGUAGE! Website.
• ANGEL Professional Development Network allows
  teachers to receive LANGUAGE! Training at their
  own pace.
• The LANGUAGE! Training provided through ANGEL
  will not replace the district recommendation of
  the 5 day workshop.
• Your School-based Reading Coach can provide you
  with the ANGEL Network address and your
  individual password.

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District LANGUAGE! Coach Support

• The role of the District LANGUAGE! Coach is to
  provide support to LANGUAGE! teachers through
  activities that have the greatest impact on
  student achievement, namely modeling, coaching,
  and mentoring in classrooms.

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District LANGUAGE! Coach Support

• Areas of Support May Include
• Model Lessons
• LANGUAGE! Content Knowledge
• Data Analysis to Drive Instruction
• Differentiated Instruction
• Student Motivation and Goal Setting
• Multimedia and Research Projects
• Test Taking Skills as incorporated in the
  curriculum
• Extension Activities

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Data Folders

• Data Folders will
• address state, district, and curriculum based
  data.
• promote self-monitoring and introspection of the
  learning processes.
• be student maintained.
• provide a vehicle for communication between
  teachers, students, and parents.

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Data Folders LANGUAGE! Data Folder Table of
Contents

• The LANGUAGE! Data Folder Table of Contents
• Lists the recommended contents of a Student Data
  Folder
• Allows students to self-monitor their quarterly
  achievement
• Provides and documents communication among
  teacher, student, and parent
• Data Folder Table of Contents

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Data FoldersStudent Goal and Action Plan

• Student Goal and Action Plan
• records student FCAT subtest scores.
• compares state, district, and individual FCAT
  achievement.
• allows two means of tracking student data.
• identifies personal areas of FCAT subtest focus.
• requires a personal goal for FCAT DSS
  improvement.
• Student Goal and Action Plan

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Data Folders Content Mastery Record Forms

• The Content Mastery Record Form
• allows the student to record scores from each of
  the steps in a unit as it is seen on the Content
  Mastery Student Booklet.
• contains all the units instructed during the
  year.
• reflects the students cumulative achievement on a
  unit.
• Content Mastery Record Form

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Data Folders Progress Indicators-Fluency Task
Student Record

• The Progress Indicator-Fluency Student Record
  Form
• reflects the Progress Indicator Student Record
  Booklet Form.
• records fluency score of recommended checkpoints
  in a unit.
• allows for correlation between the FAIR/LANGUAGE!
  oral reading fluency guidelines.
• Fluency Task Record Form

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Data Folders Parent Letters

• LANGUAGE! has informational letters to parents
  notifying them of student achievement at
  significant points in the curriculum.
• These include
• Introductory LANGUAGE! Letter
• End of Unit Letter
• Summative and Progress Indicator
• Final LANGUAGE! Program Letter
• Parent Letter

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Data Folders Sample Lesson Checklist

• The Lesson Checklist allows the student to
• track completion of daily assignments.
• self-monitor effort, participation, and
  independence.
• receive teacher feedback on effort,
  participation, and independence.
• Teachers also have an opportunity to make
  additional comments.

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Data Folders Florida Assessment in Reading

• Florida Assessments in Reading will provide a
  variety of data reports for individual students,
  classes, and schools.
• The Florida Assessment in Reading Student Report
  summarizes a students
• Broad Screening Tool
• Target Diagnostic Inventory
• Progress Monitoring Tool

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Questions

• School Level Support is available from
• Cadre Members
• Reading Coaches
• District LANGUAGE! Coach
• Curriculum and Staff Development personnel are
  here to support you and answer any questions you
  might have.
• Thank you for working so hard to improve the
  lives of the students in Lee County.

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Contacts

• Maria Callis
• Coordinator, Secondary Reading
• 239-335-1423
• marials_at_leeschools.net
• Cher Hollar
• District LANGUAGE! Coach
• 239-461-8440
• cherbh_at_leeschools.net