K-8 LITERACY GRADEBANDSPRING QUARTER 2006WORKING SYLLABUSA caution and a challenge: Fountas and Pinnell’s, Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades3-6, is a rich source of information about middle level literacy programs. I realize this is a LOT of information to process. You could be tempted to simply accomplish the reading. However, you need to be thinking carefully about how the workshops are set up; what your teaching could look like; what students are doing and why; and how to keep track of student learning. We’ll have time for discussion and questions but you need to have done the ACTIVE work of visualizing and hypothesizing how you might apply the techniques in order for us to have productive conversations.Week 1 – Primary Literacy AssessmentWeek 2 – Using Writing and Reading Samples/Assessments to Inform Practice- Writing Samples from Week 1 Assessment- Reading Samples from Week 1 Assessment- “Unpacking Intermediate Literacy Workshops”Assignments: - Read and map or take notes on Sections Two & Three of Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades 3 – 6. These notes are for YOU to make sense of how you might use the material and to determine what questionsyou have. Make this work for you.- Read the strategy lesson you were given. Assess its “power” using the guidelines on page 141 of your text and decide what the mini-lesson promotes – reading strategies and skills or literary analysis (p. 132-135). Be prepared to carefully describe this lesson to a small group.- Finish Poetry books and bring to class in Week 5 to share Week 3 – Discussion of Sections Two & Three; ReQuest; Reading Conferences Assignments:- For Week 4 - read and map or take notes on Section Six of Guiding Readers and Writers.- For Week 5 - Prepare a writer’s talk (p. 424-25) for a small group. (Selectan author of children’s books who writes for children in the third to seventh grade range.- For Week 5 - Prepare to teach your assigned strategy lesson to a small group (p. 450 – 457).Week 4 – Six Trait Writing; Setting Up a Writers’ WorkshopAssignments:- Prepare a writer’s talk (p. 424-25) to present to a small group. (Select anauthor of children’s books who writes for children in the third to seventh grade range.- Prepare to teach your assigned strategy lesson to a small group (p. 450 – 457).Week 5 – Practicing Writers’ Talks and Strategy Lessons; More About Writers’ Workshop; Sharing Poetry BooksAssignments:- For Week 7, review sections in the text on reading conferences and writing conferences. Look over the record keeping instruments in the Appendix. Everyone needs to bring ONE book that is appropriate for a student in grades 3 – 6 (you choose the grade level – the book should be a chapter book either fiction or non-fiction). Be prepared to conduct a mock writing conference and a mock reading conference.- Review class notes and appropriate text sections on modeling various aspects of the writing process. Be prepared to model any of the following: topic generation, topic selection, revision of a piece, editing of a piece, examination of features and structures of informational writingWeek 6 – Micro-Teaching in FieldWeek 7 – Practicing conferences and modeling aspects of the writing processAssignments: - Read and map or take notes on Sections 4 and 5 of Guiding Readers andWriters. Week 8 - Reader Selected Miscue Analysis; Discussion of Sections 4 & 5Assignment: - For Week 10, select two strategies from the text that you have not taught or seen modeled in class. Write lesson plans for these strategies and prepare to teach them in small groups. You’ll have 30 minutes to teach ONE of the lessons in a small group. Which lesson you’ll teach will be decided in Week 10.- For week 10 – imagine that you are being interviewed for a teaching position in grades 3 – 7 (you choose the grade level). Write an answer to the interview question: How will you teach reading and writing? How will you help all the children/youth in your class develop and improve their reading and writing skills? You’d probably have about 5 minutes torespond so your paper should reflect that time limit. You need to decide how to concisely convey what you know to be essential to the development of readers and writers but not be so general that the interview committee can’t tell what you actually know and can do. After you write your script, practice it so you can reply orally in a coherent and organized way. You’ll hand in the paper AND practice giving your response to a small group.Week 9 – Micro-TeachingWeek 10 – Strategy Questions and Interview
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