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- English Language Arts and Literacy Retreat
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English Language Arts and Literacy Retreat:
Building Shared Understanding of the Common Core State Standards
November 29-30
Newark, NJBringing ALL students to College and Career Readiness part one: fluency and vocabulary and the research base
Securing the Core for All (ELA)David and Meredith Liben Bringing ALL students to College and Career Readiness
Part two: the language of complex tests; how texts become complex
LWF- Day 1, texts 1 & 2
Powerpoint PresentationLily Wong-Fillmore How it can work in Elementary School: Providing ELs & LMs instructional support for access to the language and content of texts
LWF- Day 1, Text 3
Powerpoint PresentationLily Wong-Filmore How it can work in Middle School: a close reading exemplar
Exemplar- Words we live byLiben on Monk's Words we live byDavid Liben How it can work in High School: a Model Lesson - Poetry
Do not go gentle into that good night
One ArtDavid Coleman Instructional Implications of the Common Core State Standards - The Shifts David Coleman
ELA ShiftsMeasurable Outcomes/Implementation Goals - Participants work on 3 action steps for next day David Coleman
Proposed Action StepsDay 2 Hands on work with tools: text dependent questions, using evidence, writing to sources, academic vocabulary Lily Wong-Fillmore and Meredith
Liben
ELA Summit presentation
Aunt Lily's Mini-Guide to
Point MenuBringing all teachers into the CCSS: Reading in Social Studies and Science: the vital challenge of brining in science and social studies teachers Sandra Alberti and David Liben
The Great Fire
Great Fire Blank ExemplarTools/Resources Available
Sources for informational text
More close reading exemplars
Publishers' Criteria
Rubric for evaluating materialsStudent Achievement Partners
Team and Lily Wong-Filmore
Publisher's Criteria k-2
Publisher's Criteria 3-12
PARCC MCF for Literacy
Qualitative
Dimensions of Text Complexity
Chart Band 2nd - 3rd
Qualitative Dimensions of Text
Complexity Chart Band 4th - 5th
Qualitative Dimensions of Text Complexity Chart Band 6th - 8th
Qualitative Dimensions of Text
Complexity Chart Band 11-CCR
Companion GuideImplementation discussion - goals/metrics/action steps from yesterday Sandra Alberti How to leverage the Council in this work/Closing Remarks Ricki Price Baugh
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