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What reading strategies and skills do students need to comprehend text?

What reading strategies and skills do students need to compose written text?

Evaluate your daily reading instruction…o Is this part of your Balanced

Literacy?o Is this explicitly taught?o Is this modeled frequently?

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TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Understanding the Formal Language

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Understanding the Linguistic Pool

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Understanding the Linguistic Pool

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Explicit Instruction of Academic Language/Vocab

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Explicit Instruction of Academic Language/Vocab

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…School-Wide Weekly Academic Language

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Dissecting Standards

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Knowing the language in the TRC assessments

Do you have explicit instruction of the academic language and

vocabulary?

Can students automatically transfer in and out of registers?

Can students independently read and comprehend the complex language?

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TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Explicit Instruction of the components needed in

written response

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Implementation with Students

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Implementation with Students

ProvideFeedback

Set Goals

Self Assess

Rubrics or Checklists are a balanced approach! They allow opportunities for students to:

Have a guide

Build Independence

Do you generate rubrics with student input?

Do your students know exactly what they need to include in a written response to be successful?

Have you visually show them by modeling? Do they have a visual checklist? Do you conference with them referring to a rubric?

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Do you allow students to choose books which they know they will

respond to after reading?Do you allow students to choose

questions to respond to?Things to think about:o Giving reluctant readers

the power of choice.o Giving all students the

power of choice for their work.

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Shared Writing, Interactive Writing & Modeled Writing…

Shared Writing:

Interactive Writing:

Modeled Writing:

Shared Writing, Interactive Writing & Modeled Writing…

Shared Writing:

Interactive Writing:

ModeledWriting:

Teacher & student compose a text together. The teach is the scribe. Often the teacher works on a chart display or easel. Children contribute each word & re-read it several times.

Is similar to & acts in a similar way as shared writing. The main exception, the teacher will invite students up to the easel & contribute a letter, word or part of a word. Occasionally the teacher will make teaching points to help children attend to various features of letters & words.

The teacher demonstrates the process of writing in a particular genre, using a think-aloud process. The teacher might have prepared the piece of writing prior & talks students through the process.

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Shared Writing in Written Response

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK…Interactive Writing in Written Response

Allowing students to be the “teacher” benefits everyone! It serves as a

model, think aloud, conference, builds independence and the desire to

achieve. Think about yourself, do you always want to “sit and get”? Do you learn better through active participation?

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Do you use progress monitoring opportunities as a practice session

for Written Response?With minimal time to prep a question in the “assessment” format leads to many benefits.o Practice testing strategies.o Written response

conference.o Building comfort for the

student.

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Do you make Written Response Conferences a priority? Where can

this fit in with reading and/or writing conferences?

o Shared or Interactive Writing

o Progress Monitoring

o Small Groupo Independent

Work periods

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Do you only look at colors? Do you actually sit down to review the

running record, oral comprehension and written comprehension?

If you are not looking close at the reasons why a child is not moving forward, how do you know your instruction is helping them? Time is limited, so we need to have targeted instruction.

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Everyone needs a “crutch” to get started. Written Response is tricky for young

learners and new to most of them. It’s not a secret, give students the support

and gradually remove as they gain independence.

Sentence frames build better writers. The visual helps to cognitively develop better text talkers and text composers.

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Are you a visual leaner? Do visual examples help your comprehension?

All types of learners, can benefit from color coding the question and

written response!

Color coding helps learners match the components of a question to the artifacts needed in a response.

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The academic formal language is hard for young learners. It requires

critical thinking skills at a high level. We need to provide a strategy to

help comprehend the question.

o Training students to dissect a question is beneficial for future assessments.

o It allows students to answer using the knowledge they gained from the text.

11 “Rocks”to help improve Written Response!Reading Instruction Immersion of the Formal

Language

Using Rubrics Providing Choices

Shared / Interactive Writing

Written Response with Progress Monitoring

Conferencing Looking closer at Data

Using Sentence Frames Color Coding

Deconstruct / Reconstruct

Scaffolded Implementation using Gradual Release!

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