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Strengthen Your Core

Strengthen Your Core. Crystal Robinson BTSS 2013. Strengthen Your Core: What is the purpose?. Integrating Fig. 19 into your daily lesson plans (higher order thinking) Focuses on genre Using foldables and graphic organizers Using your core curriculum more effectively

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Strengthen Your Core

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  1. Strengthen Your Core Crystal Robinson BTSS 2013

  2. Strengthen Your Core:What is the purpose? • Integrating Fig. 19 into your daily lesson plans (higher order thinking) • Focuses on genre • Using foldables and graphic organizers • Using your core curriculum more effectively • Foster differentiation • Allows for open-ended, authentic responses • Provides consistency through a routine format

  3. Strengthen Your Core 10 Steps to a toned curriculum!

  4. Strengthen Your CoreSteps 1-3 1. Look at your TEKS! 2. Identify your genres and Fig.19 skills 3. Choose your sequence. NOTES • This is basically your six weeks plan. • Each team member must be a part of the planning process.

  5. Common Genres Literary Texts • Literary Non-Fiction • Poetry • Drama • Fiction Informational Texts • Culture & History • Expository • Persuasive • Procedural

  6. Common Fig. 19 Skills • Establish purposes for reading texts • Ask questions of texts • Monitor and adjust comprehension • Make inferences and provide textual evidence to support understanding • Summarize information • Make connections

  7. Strengthen Your CoreSteps 4-5 4. Check your core. 5. Find picture books. NOTES • Your librarian and your reading specialist are your best friends!

  8. Using the Core • The core curriculum has great resources and the main TEKS have already been identified for you. • You can use the stories and adapt the questions/activities to fit your specific needs. • This does not follow the sequence of the book.

  9. Picture Books • This is a great way to introduce the concepts/skills for each unit. • The students enjoy being read to at every age. • Teacher models good fluency and expressive reading. • Unique way to engage the students. • Can also use books on tape, a guest reader, and Reading Rainbow

  10. Strengthen Your CoreSteps 6-9 6. Create your foldable. 7. Create your questions using question stems. 8. Create your assessment. 9. Choose re-enforcement activities. NOTES • This must be completed before you begin teaching the unit. • Each team member must be a part of the creative process.

  11. Importance of Foldables • Fosters open-ended responses • Allows for easy differentiation of texts and products • Exposes students to multiple graphic organizers • Re-enforces writing skills • Reusable NOTES • There are some examples on the table for you to view! • I’ve included a bi-fold and tri-fold template in the iSummit app.

  12. Question Stems • Questions from the book • Revised Blooms http://tpri.wikispaces.com/file/view/05-2Bloom-16-17+Stems+for+Instruction.pdf • Margaret KilgoQuestion Stems • Use examples from released STAAR tests NOTES • You can use the same questions again and again with just a little tweaking. • Must be created and agreed upon by the team.

  13. Sample Questions • The Adventures of Ali Baba • Kid Reporters at Work • Ranita, the Frog Princess

  14. Re-Enforcement Activities • Reflections & Connections PPT • Read short story from core (2 pager) • Partner discuss • Group share • Marbles & passes for participation • Reading Menu • Test Prep Workbook from Core • Worksheets • Interactive Games NOTES • All of these can be completed in centers, with a partner, in guided reading groups, independently, or as a whole group lesson.

  15. Strengthen Your CoreStep 10 10. REPEAT steps 4-9 for each unit!

  16. Teaching Model • I Do (Introduce) • Teacher introduces key vocabulary • Teacher models with a picture book and kids copy the notes • We Do (Practice) • Partner/group work using 2-3 stories from core with teacher as facilitator • You Do (Assess) • Independent work using leveled texts

  17. Lesson Cycle • Lasts 2-3 weeks • Uses multiple texts • Repetitive • Introduction, practice, and assessment are exactly the same format • Sample Lesson Cycle

  18. Strengthen Your Core10 steps to a toned curriculum! • Look at your TEKS! • Identify your genres and Fig. 19 skills • Choose your sequence. • Check your core. • Find picture books. • Create your foldable. • Create your questions using question stems. • Create your assessment. • Choose re-enforcement activities • REPEAT steps 4-9 for each unit.

  19. Assessment Practice • Foldable and questions completed with partner/group • Worksheets Application • Foldable/questions completed with partner/group • Test Prep Workbook • Reading Menu Activities Evaluation • Foldable/questions complete independently • Teacher Created Test • Student Weekly Assessment Book from the core (can create your own questions)

  20. QUESTIONS

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