Twelfth Grade Expository Reading and Writing Course

1. Twelfth Grade Expository Reading and Writing Course October 23, 2013 Dr. Mary Adler CSU Channel Islands Mary.Adler@csuci.edu 805-437-8486 Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

2. 1995: CSU focuses on remediation • 1996: Trustees set 10% goal • 2001: CSU faculty develop CST items • 2003: 186,000 pilot the augmented CST • 2004-07: Develop, pilot & refine modules • 2007-current: Train & implement program • 2012: Require pre-enrollment remediation • 2012: Develop & pilot new modules, grades 7-11 • 2013: Roll out Second Edition Why are we here today? Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

3. High School Students and Teachers Who benefits from EAP? Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops Aligned to CC Expository & analytical State Board of Education Articulation & Collaboration Universities

4. Identify juniors who need extra academic help • Advise these students to take ERWC as seniors • Avoid time & money spent in remediation • Provide an entry exam exemption to students who are ready as juniors View sample letter to students --Updates for 2014 Purpose of the Current Program Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

5. 387,405 students took EAP test items in 2013 (83% of those who took CST) Review of datahttp://eap2013.ets.org/ViewReport.asp Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

6. Day 1, October 23, 2013 • Background & rationale • Adaptations for ELD • Introduction to template & modules, Semester 1 • Day 2, October 25, 2013 • Connect concepts to teaching & template • Resources: grammar, writing, web • Day 3, March 7, 2014 • Reflect on teaching & analyze student work • Introduction to modules, Semester 2 Agenda/Goals for this series Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

7. Introducing Students to the ERWC • What's Next? Thinking About Life After High School • Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page • Racial Profiling • The Value of Life • Good Food/Bad Food • Into the Wild Semester One: Second Edition Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

8. Bring a Text You Like to Class • Juvenile Justice • Language, Gender, and Culture • Teachers can opt to teach the novels Brave New Worldor1984 • Bullying: A Research Project • Final Reflection: The ERWC Portfolio Semester Two: Second Edition Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

9. Grade 10 In Pursuit of Unhappiness River Rights: Whose Water Is It? Leopard Man Age of Responsibility Grade 11 Island Civilization To Clone or Not to Clone Violence in the Media The Last Meow Grade 9 • Hip Hop Goes Global • The Undercover Parent • Extreme Sports: What's the Deal? • Threatening Stereotypes Modules Now Available for Grades 9-11 Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

10. Grade 7 Grade 8 Social Networking or Antisocial Networking When is Lying Okay? Robots in School The Construction of a College Experience • What It Takes to Be Great • Tap vs. Bottled Water • Helicopter Parents • The Impact of Celebrities Modules Now Available for Grades 7-8 Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

11. The Great Divide…or is it? Considering differences between high school & college Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

12. What are the major differences between the high school and college texts? • In what ways do the texts encourage a particular way of teaching the material? • As high school teachers, what is important to you that students learn as preparation for college, career, and life? A textbook survey Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

13. HS Lit: lots of vocabulary, footnotes; organized thematically; force coherence; prereading information; interactive workbooks; distracting information in the margins; can’t write/draw; less active; guided questions; students “don’t own it”; need to learn techniques for annotating; CDs/extra resources; questions to guide reading; largely fiction • Coll: Can annotate; process information; Your Observations Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

14. Content: Use of multiple high interest, expository texts (linking ideas, organizing concepts); content: rhetoric • Strategies: Interpretation, research, explicit modeling; rereading and annotation practices • Key transition to college: Postsecondary culture: Expository texts from multiple disciplines ERWC as a Bridge to College/Career Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

15. Time for a break! Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

16. Read the article, “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains,” by Paul Thompson (from the Juvenile Justice module). • Discuss at your table: How might you modify the instruction/text for students who are English Learners during prereading, reading, and postreading? • Share out • Additional suggestions Modifying the modules for English Learners Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

17. Use module texts but reduce the number • Choose more accessible module texts to analyze • Modify texts • Vocabulary or structural substitutions • Glossing difficult words • Differentiate; certain students read only part • Build concepts; use media; avoid minutiae • Teach connotative and denotative word meanings Additional Suggestions for ELD adaptation Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

18. You’ll need three sources for this activity: • The article, “Startling Finds on Teenage Brains” • The assignment template (in your binder) • The questions for the assignment template Learning the Assignment Template Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops

19. In your group, take one piece of the template and apply it to the article. • What do you learn about the text as you try walking through the template? • What activities come to mind that students could do that would enable them to analyze in this way? • What beliefs about learning come through? Dr. Mary Adler October 2013 for ERWC workshops