Facts About Literacy

The Academic Impact Model

so...what does this even mean?? Let's start from the beginning. What else? What can we do about it? Informed and resilient teachers who know their strengths and weaknesses are most effective for tapping into the mindsets of those you perceive as different or the same as yourself. Source: TFA, Atlanta Institute Diversity Competencies session

Dr. Roz Linder: Author of the Common Core Guidebook

"Textual evidence is support lifted directly from text to support inferences, claims, and assertions. Textual evidence is a student supporting how they know something. There is a lot of buzz about text dependent questions and requiring students to refer to the text, but isn’t that what good readers do already? Textual evidence does not want to keep the text a secret when students discuss or answer questions about their reading. Textual evidence demands that readers engage with the text and share what specific aspects of the text influences their thinking. Instead of asking what the central idea is, teachers may want to rely on the addition of four words: How do you know? How do you know what the central idea of the text is? What proof do you have? This is where textual evidence pushes students to." —Dr. Roz Linder Dr. Roz Linder is the author of the Common Core Guidebook. Check out her website at: www.rozlinder.com ...

Steps to a Quality Vision

Follow these steps to developing a quality lesson plan. These steps are geared toward literacy competency. No matter your content area, you ARE a literacy teacher. There is a palpable connection between literacy and a career path. I will talk to my students like they are all going to college and therefore all will have to write a college essay. Vocabulary development is key for every subject. In math, literacy helps with word problems, with reading and understanding directions, and for any question that asks students to ‘explain more.’ Literacy is vital for the social sciences for the copious amount of reading it entails, for the required essays and synthesizing skills that are key to understanding the importance of events. Literacy is crucial for science because it is full of new vocabulary terms. Students need to develop the necessary skills to learn and master scientific terminology and can do so through learning an...

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