Beth Cutrer March 16, 2012 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

1. Carolina Literacy Institute: A Disciplinary Literacies Framework for Every Day with a Focus on Writing. Beth Cutrer March 16, 2012 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2. Framework for Every Day 1. Think Aloud about Reading, Writing, Thinking 2. Define and Use Vocabulary Every Day 3. Make Time for Intellectual Talk 4. Make Time for Daily, Disciplinary Writing 5. Cultivate a Material Memory

3. Think Aloud About Text Structure: • Mathematicians • Kids benefit from teaching note-taking around “big ideas” in one column and explanations and examples in the next • Chemists • Kids benefit from teaching structured note-taking and summarization • Historians • Kids benefit by being taught to make history events charts and think about connections between 1st and 2nd event, 2nd and 3rd event, etc.

4. Think Aloud • Shadow problem: • If Fabian is 6 feet tall and his shadow is 9 feet long, how tall is the flag pole if it has a 32 foot shadow?

5. Frayer Model:

6. Use and Define Vocabulary • Make Vocabulary a natural part of the language in your room • Use the language • It takes 7-12 exposures to learn a word • Develop a Living Word Wall

7. Make Time for Intellectual Talk • Encourage and Require Intellectual Talk in Your Discipline Every Day • To each other while they write • Kids benefit from the ability to orally rehearse ideas

8. Revolutionary War:

9. Making Time for Daily Disciplinary Writing • Students should write in every discipline every day • With you-Shared Writing • You “hold the pen” and think aloud and foster whole class talk while you craft writing together • While they Read • Structured note taking helps support comprehension; show them how to take notes and help them practice • Together • Collaboration is a powerful model in most disciplines for developing knowledge-teach them how to write together.

10. Structured Note Taking:

11. R A F T

12. Newton’s Universal Law of Gravity

13. Sample Student Writing in Response to a RAFT prompt • “Message to Earth – I am an apple and I’m very attracted to you by a special force known as gravity. You have made me fall from my branch. The closer I fall to you the more you pull on me. By the time you get this telegram I’ll probably be sitting in your grass.”

14. Sample RAFT prompts: • R=Grass R=Hydrogen • A=Dew A=Oxygen • F=Diary F=Memo • T=How I hold you T=Let’s make water • R=Mosquito R=Brain • A=Human Snack A=Muscle • F=Cartoon F=Letter of Request • T=My bite is bad T=Move

15. Shared Writing • In shared writing, the teacher and students compose collaboratively, the teacher acting as expert and scribe for her apprentices as she demonstrates, guides, and negotiates the creation of meaningful text, focusing on the craft of writing as well as the conventions.  Texts can be short and completed in one session or long and written over several weeks.

16. Shared Writing • Shadow problem: • If Fabian is 6 feet tall and his shadow is 9 feet long, how tall is the flag pole if it has a 32 foot shadow

17. Cultivate Material Memory • Make your classroom intellectualism “material” by posting it around the room • Line the classroom walls and surfaces with the fruit of your intellectual endeavors • Student Writing • Shared Writing • Word Walls

18. Framework for Every Day 1. Think Aloud about Reading, Writing, Thinking 2. Define and Use Vocabulary Every Day 3. Make Time for Intellectual Talk 4. Make Time for Daily, Disciplinary Writing 5. Cultivate a Material Memory