student empowerment program 3rd grade ela response to literature connecticut
DESCRIPTION
This program is intended to motivate and to support Children from 5-10 years old (K- 4th grades) in learning critical thinking and grade-level performance standards for school promotion. People of all ages can help because all children who trust their peers, older siblings and friends need to read out loud and think out aloud with poetry, schoolwork, newspapers, magazines, religious studies and everything they view for fun. After all, this is one of the few ways that we get to know them as independent thinkers and formal learners to get ahead in our complex global society.TRANSCRIPT
LICENSED EDUCATORS: Topical Compatibility: Increased parent and community involvement, early intervention to drop-out prevention, increase understanding of ELA assessments, improve motivation and engagement, character education, emotional intelligence, leadership. Please develop portfolios, recorded sessions, art for word images etc. Create portfolios to reflect assignments prepared through the ELA study guide as well as your performance outcomes. Portfolios should exhibit: instructional artifacts; personal reflective practices; acknowledgement of program goals; and personal awareness of core competence of resources.
W. Calvin Anderson, MEd. and SEP provides in-service educational enhancement, drop-out and truancy prevention; parent involvement and school articulation by reinforcing academic and youth development readiness programming.
Dedicated to the memory of classmate, Clarence L. West, Native of Stamford, CT, Distinguished Eagle Scout,
Black Talent Program, Staff Member, Boston College
SEP endorses READ AMERICAhttp://www.readamerica.net/
Dear Concerned Americans:
This program is intended to motivate and to support Children from 5-10 years old (K- 4th
grades) in learning critical thinking and grade-level performance standards for school
promotion. People of all ages can help because all children who trust their peers, older
siblings and friends need to read out loud and think out aloud with poetry, schoolwork,
newspapers, magazines, religious studies and everything they view for fun. After all,
this is one of the few ways that we get to know them as independent thinkers and formal
learners to get ahead in our complex global society.
This SEP home and school study unit helps young learners to engage the work of a young
poet named, TyVion Harris and think. When you follow the study guide for the lesson young
learner will then “learn how-to respond to an author and his literature” j
This kind of English Language Arts practice activity will serve to increase critical thinking
skills as well as viewing, listening, response to poetry, and familiarity with grade level
expectations at school in English for everyone involved.
The added-value of this SEP educational DVD is successful when you use it over and over
again and make certain that loving and caring older siblings, family members and concerned
friends also help and even learn to present and “teach” younger learner this program. “Each
one, teach one…” was once the primary mode of education in the U.S. schools wherein all
ages studied in the same small quarters. We invite any and all of you who are reading this to
teach this lesson after you carefully review each section and study it for program goals and
your own compatible ideas just like in school. Sincerely, W. Calvin Anderson, MEd
Let’s Review Sections of the DVD:• Parent Involvement• Author Studies• Responding to Poetry• 3rd Grade Learning Standards• Reading Aloud and Sharing Ideas• Quiz Questions for Practicing Testing
SEP GoalsThe Student Empowerment Program in this application of theHumanities Review System is devoted to meeting the educational anddevelopmental of children 5 to 10 years old to flourish in criticalthinking and reading, viewing, listen and speaking.
The educational DVD is a supplement to a lesson. Students will: 1) listen, view and read for enjoyment; 2) foster an appreciation for
reading for pleasure; 3) increase in developing a basic or advanced reading vocabulary; 4) read aloud and think out loud and state the order of TyVion’s ideas
and the information; and5) read the State English Language Arts standards and “predict” that
the process of question and answer is the same as in their 2nd to 4th
grade English class in school.
MotivationPoet TyVion Harris
is an African American male who is 8 years old.African American males in many major cities andeducational communities suffer from poor selfesteem, poor grades, illiteracy and high drop outrates.
Early efforts by all ages who can read to increase educational appreciation of young learners
could prevent a lack of engagement and studentachievement in later years.
Can we learn about life watching, listening to and reading poetry?
READ TYVION’S POEM OUT LOUD ANDTALK ABOUT IT NOW
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW, QUIZ?End of Poet TyVion’s Sections
What is the main idea of the poem?
a) Self Awareness
b) Changing his name
c) Bragging about being a smart kid.
Correct Answer
Self-AwarenessYes. This poem by TyVion Harris aka "YoungTveezy" is about self-awareness and how hedoes life. He believes in his future. He believes indoing for the youth of the USA and the world. Hebelieves in doing for his family and for preparing afinancial future. He says, "I am tveezy I am there ifyou need me".
Wrong Answer
Changing his name.
No.
This answer is not correct the poem is not about
why he changed his name even though
Tyvion Harris is also known as "Young Tveezy".
Wrong Answer
Bragging about being a smart kid.
No.
The main idea of the poem, "I do it for the
future" is to share self-awareness and a personal
sense of responsibility and accountability.
THESE QUESTIONS ALSO!ANSWER
a. Does TyVion Harris capture a reader’s interest?b. Does TyVion Harris develop his own “point of view”? c. Does TyVion Harris demonstrate an understanding of how school
helps his swag ?c. Does TyVion say, “he makes connections in his poetry and that
everything that he writes about is real?”d. Does TyVion Harris make his poem, I Do It For The Future connect
with his own life?e. Does TyVion Harris Make his poetry connect to what he knows
about the world?f. Does TyVion Harris Make his poetry make sense with a ending,
beginning, middle, and end? e. Does TyVion Harris tell you a lot about his ideas through writing and
listening to him?
Author Studies: Poet TyVion Harris
LOOK UP ALL OF THE WORDS!GET YOUR DICTIONARY
VOCABULARY & DEFINITIONS
Future
Schoolwork
Good
Geography
Dress
Swagger
Action Verbs
Nouns
Adjectives
Focus
Character
Rap
Family
Language Arts
Spoken Word
Poetic License
Rhyme
Verse
Youth
Math
Business
Ohio
Poet
Thinker
Negative
Positive
Author
Idea
Teamwork
Love
CRCT ParentInvolvement
Independent
THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT!
LOOK UP UNDERLINED WORDS AND KNOW ALL OF YOUR 3RD GRADE ELA – READING COMPREHENSION LITERACY/LANGUAGE ARTS STANDARDS FOR
STUDENT COMPETENCIES ELA – 3RD GRADE
A. The acquisition of word identification skills is central to students’ overall growth in reading.
B. Accurate, automatic word identification provides an essential foundation for reading comprehension at all grade levels.
C. Reading materials at the primary level are generally within thestudents’ background and language experiences, and the ideas are relatively simple and straightforward comprehension of text is always an important component of reading instruction and the ultimate goal of reading.
D. Oral comprehension of text (i.e., when teachers reada story aloud to students) and students’ reading comprehension (i.e., of text they have read themselves)
E. Basic comprehension strategies, such as summarization, prediction, inference and using context to infer word meanings, are introduced in the context of both oral and reading comprehension activities.
http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/curriculum/section3.pdf
EXEMPLAR PORTFOLIOS FOR ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ARE AVAILABLE ACROSS CT
3RD GRADE LEARNERS are encouraged to:
Identify essentials in free verse and analyze contributions to other written formats
http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2607&q=319180#en
FAMILY READING PROGRAM
Community Conversations are bringing people together to collaboratively address local adult, child and family literacy issues. These communities are using the new Study Circles Guide on Families and Literacy [PDF] developed by the State Department of Education as part of its commitment to the Connecticut Family Literacy Initiative. Study circles are small democratic discussions that provide ways for people to build community and resolve problems. To learn more, go to www.studycircles.org
http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?A=2678&Q=320764
Connecticut State Depart of Education Literacy/Language Arts
Education
GO ONLINE TO THIS ADDRESS FOR TESTING INFO:
http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/pdf/curriculum/language_arts/languageartshand
book-part3.pdf
Connecticut State Depart of Education Literacy/Language Arts Education
Aptitude with reading,
Writing,
Listening, Speaking, Viewing, and Presenting within English Language Arts
and across all content areas
When Poet’s in CT Look Forward to This in High School
http://cultureandtourism.org/cct/cwp/view.asp?a=2212&q=396454
TO JOIN OUR SEP STUDENT ASSOCIATION PROGRAM!
STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …
Email us at [email protected]
SEP READINESS PROGRAM
TyVion is Ready-to-Learn
TO JOIN OUR SEP STUDENT ASSOCIATION PROGRAM ALSO!
STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …
Email us at [email protected]
SEP TRACKING PROGRAM
Our SEP “More Luv” Interactive Parent Involvement program
• Work with your child to improve student achievement
• Track your child’s weekly progress for the school year
• Look at the school calendar and know the important test schedules and ways to help
• Monitor progress and reduce the stress and “high-pressure” for your young learner by being a “team” to solve problems!
TO JOIN OUR ONLINE STUDENT PROGRAM ALSO!
STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …ANSWER
Email us at [email protected]
SEP ONLINE LEARNING COURSE
Go online to www.greptechnologies/moodle
RESEARCH & REFERENCES
The Student Empowerment Program c 1992 was founded by
W. Calvin Anderson, MEd. (SEP). SEP has served to improve student
achievement in colleges, universities, K-12, non-profit, faith
based organizations and charter schools and across five states
including New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
For more information please contact: Calvin Anderson at (770)912-8569 or
[email protected] or Northeast Regional Coordinator,
Tony Nelson, CEO of Nelson
Associates at Service
Learning and Vocational (203)393-5717, [email protected] and Ernest
Anderson, Marketing Specialist (203)823-6333, [email protected]
W. Calvin Anderson, MEd. has a BA in Philosophy
& Political Science, and MS in Educational Administration & Supervision and is a candidate for and MS in Instructional Design For Online Learning (June 2011).
