Week 15: Inquiry and Integrating Literacy across the Curriculum

Last week:

Storytelling and Newstelling PLConversations Whole Group Sharing Questioning

BREAK Questioning and Book Club Integrated Literacy Assignment

This week:

• PL Conversation

• Inquiry - lecture + activity

• BREAK

• Lit Circles/Book Club

• Integrated Literacy Assignment time

Inquiry & Play - PLConversations

Today you will talk in your PLC group for ~ 10 minutes.

Then you will join with a group who read the other article.

Briefly summarize the article for each other and discuss commonalities as well as differences. What questions are raised?

Literacy Across the Curriculum (Crowhurst, 1994)

•All strands of Language Arts•active learning, meaning-making, expression and exploration

Integration Instructional Implications :• connect curriculum strands, skills,

knowledge & content • it should make sense and not be a “forced

fit”

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Research Projects

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Research matrix

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Restaurant project

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Teach Informational Text Structures

Reading to Writing

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Teaching Text StructuresLook at the texts in front of you and with a colleague, use post-it notes to label each of these text structures.

Does your text have other text structures?Discuss how you will explicitly teach text structures.

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An Inquiry Cycle

Inquiry & Integration group project – Document your process

Following the inquiry cycle, and using web resources or books provided here, map out how you would plan for an inquiry cycle on a topic of your choice. Your ideas will be posted for others to see.

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FOCUSThe teacher/students would…

What I expect will happen is…

EXPLOREThe teacher/students would…

What I expect will happen is…

SHARE LEARNINGThe teacher/students would…

What I expect will happen is…

ANALYZEThe teacher/students would…

What I expect will happen is…

Must Have’sResearch Helper. Site to help students with research steps. www3.sympatico.ca/sandra.hughes/sandra.hughes/research/researchs.html

Ministry of Education. (2012). Writing to Learn. Capacity Building Series. Edition #25.

Ministry of Education. (2012). Science and Literacy in the Elementary Classroom. Capacity Building Series. Edition #26.

Sadler, C. (2001). Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners and Content Area Teachers. International Reading Association.

Olness, R. (2007). Using Literature to Enhance Content Area Instruction. International Reading Association.

Allen, J. (2004). Tools for Teaching Content Literacy. Stenhouse Publishers.

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BREAK

Literature Circles/Book Clubs

In your groups please take 10 minutes to discuss your books.

Then prepare to move to a jigsaw where you will give a book talk on your book.

Together we will discuss• How would you assess literature

circles?• How can you make accommodations

in literature circles?

Integrated Literacy Assignment

This is time for you to work on your Integrated Literacy Assignment with your group.

Next week:

• Read Husbye article on play• Work on Integrated Literacy

Assignment• Modeled Strategy Lesson