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Enhancing Literacy Skills through Standards and Articles of the Week

Welcome to our comprehensive overview of literacy standards and the Article of the Week (AoW) program. This document explains the National Common Core standards that guide our writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills. The AoW initiative aims to build students' knowledge of current events and improve their clarity of writing. Students will engage with new articles bi-weekly and submit assessments. We also emphasize the importance of personal choice reading to foster a love for literature, vocabulary growth, and reading comprehension skills.

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Enhancing Literacy Skills through Standards and Articles of the Week

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  1. Welcome! Cari Pepper Katie Gammage Paige Oppenhagen

  2. Introductions Katie Gammage: 9th & 10th Cari Pepper: 10th & 11th Paige Oppenhagen:10th & theater

  3. Standards • What are standards? • Writing, Reading, Speaking & Listening, & Language skills • W1: “Write arguments to support claims…” • R1: “Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly…” • National: Common Core • http://www.k12.wa.us/CoreStandards/elastandards/pubdocs/CCSSI_ELA_Standards.pdf#3

  4. Standards • How do we use standards? • Focuses our teaching • How do standards support learning? • Focuses their learning on specific skills • Practice

  5. Article of the Week (AoW) • The Purpose of AoW: • To build reader’s knowledge of the world & current events • To develop reading stamina • To develop clarity of writing expression • To develop writing fluidity • To develop responsibility

  6. Article of the Week (AoW) • When: • Every other week students will receive a new AoW on Monday • On the second Friday the AoW is due & will be stamped • Once a month AoW folders will be collected and assessed

  7. Article of the Week (AoW) • Assessment: • Two (2) AoW’s a month will be assessed • One will be assessed on the standard; the other as daily work • To be assessed on the standard ALL AoW’s for the month must be completed and handed in

  8. Article of the Week (AoW) • Late Work: • Will ONLY be accepted on the last Friday of each month, after school • Student MUST accompany his/her work while it is being graded • There are no Activity buses, so plan accordingly Our reasoning: We are taking extra time to grade the work that student’s chose to turn in late, so students need to put in the extra time too.

  9. Personal Choice Reading • Benefits: • Correlates with success in school • Growth in vocabulary • Growth in reading comprehension • Growth in verbal and reading fluency • Increases knowledge of the world and human interactions • Increases knowledge of story structure and literary devices • Prepares students to read more complex texts • Become better readers • Raises scores on achievement tests

  10. Personal Choice Reading • Benefits: • Enjoy reading!

  11. Personal Choice Reading • Benefits: • Enjoy reading!

  12. Personal Choice Reading • When? • Nearly daily for 7 – 15 minutes in class • 15 minutes nightly at home • What? • Any book that the student selects • Biography, manga, novels, memoirs, manuals, westerns, sports, science-fiction • Textbooks -- not a study hall

  13. Personal Choice Reading • Assessment? • Daily observation • Monthly writings • End of Semester – project promoting thought-filled and creative response to the book

  14. Schoolwires • www.gothunder.org • Questions? Problems? • Contact Tami Hurd • Hand-outs • “5 Keys to Success” • “Cyber-bullying”

  15. Thanks for Coming! Cari Pepper Katie Gammage Paige Oppenhagen

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