With a focus on expository writing, participants will cull the CCSS writing standards for their application to content-specific writing genre. In doing so, participants will level strategy and expectation with assignments as they align with state and national standards. Planning of performance writing tasks will take central focus as participants learn to strategically scaffold in order to close grade-level achievement gaps, along with meeting the performance task expectations of the Common Core.
Course objectives:
- Understand and develop working knowledge about genre and CCSS expectations as they apply to expository writing.
- Apply new strategies for teaching and facilitating the writing process as it applies to content area writing and CCSS expectations.
- Plan and scaffold differentiated performance writing tasks.
Participants will practice and become familiar with implementation tools and strategies that facilitate structured reading, writing, speaking, and listening in K-5 settings. Participants will understand how to teach age and grade-appropriate citation skills, comparing, contrasting, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating of non-fiction print as it works into larger written products in multiple classroom settings. Participants will also acquire and practice with the strategies that teach students how to apply higher order thinking sills in order to cull ideas and build on those of others. 21st century digital tools that facilitate K-5 speaking and listening will be included for additional practice and implementation.
Course Objectives:
- Acquire and apply research-based strategies to teaching reading, writing, listening and speaking lessons to aid students in the skills needed to be college and career ready.
- Teach and scaffold the critical literacies within reading, writing, speaking and listening across multiple subject areas.
- Understand how to import reading, writing, listening and speaking skills into differentiated lesson plans.
After an overall introduction to the an example of Common Core curriculum using the NYS ELA modules, participants will understand which modification strategies are appropriate for maintaining CCSS integrity and fidelity, and which are not. Differentiated and cognitive-friendly scaffolding strategies for target skills in the modules will be proposed through examples offered in grades 3, 7 and 10. After being guided through a modification process using a self-selected skill within a module, participants will practice modifying self-selected module lessons using a Modification Template for Reading and Writing. A final comprehensive lesson will culminate all assignments. Instructor feedback will be provided for all practice and final assignments.
Course Objectives:
- Respond to lessons with modification strategies appropriate for maintaining Common Core lesson integrity and fidelity.
- Develop familiarity and practice with resources and strategies that aid in modifying modules using research-based methods, materials, and strategies.
- Align proposed changes in assessments and/or strategies with grade level standards to adjust for time and maintain focus on students’ work toward mastery of the same standards.
- Analyze replacement text for complexity, content and vocabulary in order to align another complex text to the standards identified.
- Review examples of high quality text-dependent questions for replacement texts in order to incorporate question design into lessons.
- Replace curriculum with tasks that include the same level of rigor and achieve the same standards.
With a focus on expository writing geared for ENL students, participants will cull the CCSS writing and language standards for their application to content-specific writing genre within ENL instruction. In doing so, participants will level strategy and expectation with assignments as they align with state and national standards. Planning of performance writing tasks (or other writing assignments) will take central focus as participants learn to strategically scaffold in order to close grade-level achievement gaps while meeting the expectations for ENL students within the Common Core.
Course Outcomes:
- Understand genre and CCSS expectations as they apply to expository writing and ENL students.
- Apply new strategies to teaching for ENLs while facilitating the writing process as it applies to content area writing and CCSS expectations.
- Plan and scaffold for differentiated writing tasks specific to ENL students.
With a focus on expository writing geared for ENL students, participants will cull the CCSS writing and language standards for their application to content-specific writing genre within ENL instruction. In doing so, participants will level strategy and expectation with assignments as they align with state and national standards. Planning of performance writing tasks (or other writing assignments) will take central focus as participants learn to strategically scaffold in order to close grade-level achievement gaps while meeting the expectations for ENL students within the Common Core.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Understand genre and CCSS expectations as they apply to expository writing and ENL students.
- Apply new strategies to teaching for ENLs while facilitating the writing process as it applies to content area writing and CCSS expectations.
- Plan and scaffold for differentiated writing tasks specific to ENL students.