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Best Practices in the Modules
Grades 3-5
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Creating a Culture of Achievement
Introductions:
- Introduce yourselves
- Where you work
- Your role
- How you are doing meeting your goal you set from the norms for collaboration this morning.
Learning Target(s)
• I can analyze the modules to determine the embedded best practices that support all learners.
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Research about Best Practices
• We are going to jump right into an approximation of the close reading process.
• You will need:
- Summaries of Research and Best Practice: Accelerating Literacy,
-the English Language Learners at School book
- the Text Rendering Protocol which includes the recording form.
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Text Rendering Protocol
• Read texts depending on your preference.
• Select the texts from either “English Language Learners Focus” OR “Special Education”
• The initial reading is a quiet, independent reading.
• Read closely!
• You have 20 minutes.
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Reread and Answer
• You now have 10 minutes to reread to answer the three questions posed on the protocol. You should underline or highlight the evidence that supports your answers.
• Capture your evidence on the Text Rendering Protocol Recording Form.
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Share in groups
• Each person in the group should share the significant findings from their reading that most impacted their thinking.
• Then follow up with open discussion for about 3 minutes (timekeepers!). The facilitator needs to make sure that everyone gets a chance to offer at least one significant finding.
• Take about 10 minutes for this.
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Check on the Norms
• Once your discussion is completed, check on the Norms of Collaboration. How did your team do?
• Take 3 minutes to do this
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Journal Reflection
• Reflect on the learning target in your journal.
• Take 5 minutes to write and reflect on your own.
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Analyzing the Modules
• Now you are going to analyze a lesson for evidence of best practices.
• You will need your Hold Your Thinking Document: Best Practices in the Modules (in your spiral notebook) and an appropriate grade level lesson (in your red folder).
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The analysis
• You should look in several sections of the lesson, including opening, work time, and closing/assessment.
• You will also look in the section “Meeting students’ needs.” This section specifically addresses scaffolding and differentiation.
• You will record your evidence on your “Hold Your Thinking” document.
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Synthesizing your thinking in a “gist
statement” • Spend 2 minutes creating a “gist statement” of
20 words or less that synthesizes your thinking on the question: What new understanding do you have about how the modules support all learners?
• Then spend 5 minutes discussing your gist statements within your groups.
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Journal
• Learning Target: I can analyze the modules to determine the embedded best practices that support all learners.
• Spend 2 minutes writing in your journal as you reflect on the target.
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