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CMS Language! TeamVictor Valley Union School District
Cobalt Middle School Presentation October 21, 2009
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The Six StepsFrom Sound
To TextIn every lesson
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What are We Doing in These
Classes for Student Achievement?
• Receptive language including both listening and reading.
• Fluency at the phrase, sentence, and passage levels.
• Comprehension instruction includes, but is not limited to: Vocabulary analysis; predicting outcomes; summarizing; visualizing, and questioning.
• Text structure, analysis of informational text and literature genres.
• Reading-writing connections: Note-taking and information organization from reading through the use of graphic organizers.
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What are we doing in these classes?It’s not so easy a caveman could do it – we have
considered serious educational pedagogy.
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Making connections and tapping prior knowledge
Brain Research
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What you will see: Engaging StrategiesBrainstorming
Graphic organizers
Cooperative groups
Think alouds
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Students are taught:• Answer questions orally• Write answers to questions• Practice expository writing• Write for various purposes• Apply principles of composition
Just as listening comprehension precedes reading
comprehension, speaking precedes writing.
What Else Are We Doing?
© 2005 by Jane Fell Greene, Ed.D. All rights reserved. Published by Sopris West Educational Services.
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Preview:
• Common domain for English/Language Arts curricula
• How L! is unique– Explicit nature of instruction– Scaffolding of skills
Prerequisite skills are taught prior to work on comprehension and writing
– Significant use of modeling, Pair-share strategies
• Check it out!
TE pp.F2–F5, F16-F19
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Blueprints – Graphic Organizers, Thinking Maps
Blueprint for Reading
Blueprint for Writing
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Scope and SequenceSystematic and Sequential.
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Showcase!!!
•Opportunity for Teachers to
refine professional practices
•Average gain of 2.8 GE
•CST gains
•Test Prep is Imbedded!
•Reading Wall
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