Nash-Rocky Mount Schools

Literacy Plan OverviewSeptember 10th, 2013

Nash-Rocky Mount SchoolsLiteracy Plan Overview

September 10, 20132:00 – 4:00

“Preparing ALL students for a bright and prosperous future by Deliberately and Intentionally providing Rigorous and Relevant instruction in every classroom, every day.”

North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards Addressed

Standard III: Teachers know the content they teach Standard IV: Teachers facilitate learning for their students

Standard V: Teachers reflect on their practiceLearning Targets:

I understand the types of materials that may be used as text. I understand how to integrate literacy into my content area.

I understand the connections between Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, Thinking and Creating.

What? Who? How? TimeLiteracy Plan Overview Bob Alexander- ELA

Amy Keith- ELAJennifer Curtis- MathMike Jones- MathDiane Rigsbee- SSMelissa Butts- STEM

PowerPoint Presentation 60 minutes

Thinking Maps & Task Content Specialist and Coaches PowerPoint Presentation 45 minutes

Closure/Q & AEvaluation

Facilitator/ Participants Group Discussion 15 minutes

The VisionThe NRMPS literacy vision is to develop and support on-going comprehensive literacy expectations for all grades and content areas, K-12. Our goal is to build, refine, and practice the life-long literacy skills of reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, and creating through content and supporting projects in an effort to prepare all students to be college and career ready contributing members of our democratic society.

What Does the NRMS Literacy Model Look like

TEXT

Reading

Writing

Speaking

Listening

Thinking

Creating

Text

Text:a tangible artifact or document appropriate for students’ current level of social and intellectual development.

We Believe…

• NRMPS believes that text is the primary lens for literacy.

• Through the text experience, literacy is engaged via a complete cycle of the reading, writing, speaking, listening, thinking, and creativity skills inherent in all content standards.

• Texts can take a variety of forms, both print and non-print.

books articles essays paragraphs photos paintings sculptures raw data primary sources documents journals letters maps charts graphs word problems interviews speeches diagrams models music editorials political cartoons laws pamphlets technical plans art digital creations blue prints memoirs schematic drawings recipes film compound equations symbols

Think out of the box

when it comes to selecting text.

READING

“Either write something worth

reading or do something worth

writing.”~ Ben Franklin

We Believe…• We believe with

support, practice, and daily reading opportunities, both students and teachers can become partners in teaching and learning reading in the content areas.

WRITING

We Believe…• Writing clarifies and refines thinking.• For assessing student understanding, writing is a

non-negotiable. • Students need opportunities to write daily.• Students need coaching and feedback on creating

and refining a writing process in each content area.• The District Writing Plan outlines specific

assignments that should be included at each grade level from various content areas.

NRMS Digital Writing Support Pieces

•Write to Learn (Grades 4-8)•Writing Coach•Essay Scorer

Speaking

Speaking

The ability to express and articulate thoughts and ideas and engage in dialogue is an essential component of the Common Core State Standards and a key life-long learning skill.

We believe…Through the discussion and exchange of ideas, students and teachers are able to:• learn to agree and disagree in a civil

fashion,• examine and clarify various perspectives,• create new meaning,• articulate complex cognitive and

metacognitive information, observations, and thought.

Listening

Listening

• What did you say? • The ability to listen and think deeply

about what you hear is a crucial literacy skill.

• In what ways have you observed students practicing active listening?

We Believe…

If you are going to survive in the 21st Century, filtering all the noise is going to save your life.

Thinking

ThinkingREADING

WRITING

SPEAKING

LISTENING

THINKING

Thinking

• Thinking has been defined as the “…ability to explain and manipulate complex systems.”(Roberts and Billings)

• Teaching students to think creatively and critically is the essential function of literacy.

We Believe…

We believe thinking can be taught with frequent and deliberate practice.

CREATING

Creativity Tools in NRMS

We Believe…

Creating well-defined projects, developed for authentic audiences, generates opportunities to: • demonstrate and assess (formative,

benchmark, summative) mastery of standards,• practice life-long learning and

sophisticated literacy skills.

Kick Starting Creativity• Graduation Project• The District Writing Plan• Transition Projects• STEM Projects• Problem-Based Learning• Project-Based Learning• Performance Tasks• The 8 Math Practices• Paideia Coached Project• Inquiry Projects

Text

NRMS: Let’s stop talking

about Literacy….