Adding to Your ESL Toolbox

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Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13Nonpublic School Services

June 18, 2013Tina Barnhart, ESL/Literacy Consultant

Agenda

• Introductions• Brief Overview of Common Core Shifts in

Literacy• Strategies to Scaffold Shifts in Literacy

– Discuss and Share• Pinterest Poll• Pinterest Sharing

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Car Activity

Stand by the mode of transportation that best describes your journey with the Common Core.

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Please be ready to share:

First name

Job title

What you are hoping to get out of this session

Why you are standing next to that vehicle

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Where to find current information

http://www.pdesas.org/

Copyright ©2011 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Common Core Shifts in ELA/Literacy

• Staircase of Complexity• Balancing Informational and Literary Texts• Close Reading and Text-based Question/Answer• Writing from Sources• Academic Vocabulary

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Staircase of Complexity

• Students read the central, grade appropriate text around which instruction is centered.

• Teachers provide time and space for close and careful reading.

• Teachers provide appropriate and necessary scaffolding and supports for students reading below grade level.

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Balancing Informational Texts

• Informational text does not have to replace fiction if the overall amount of reading students do increases dramatically.

• CCSS moves percentages to

• 50:50 at elementary level

• 75:25 at secondary level (includes ELA, science, social studies)

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Strategy Sharing

Informational Textshttp://

www.teachingquality.org/content/teaching-nonfiction-reading-skills-science-classroom-activity

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• Standards in reading require students to respond to text-dependent questions with evidence-based claims.

• Students have rich and rigorous conversations which are dependent on a common text.

• Teachers insist that classroom experiences stay deeply connected to the text.

• Students develop habits for making evidentiary arguments both in conversation, as well as in writing.

Close Reading and Text-based Questions and Answers

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Strategy Sharing

Close Reading and Text-based Questioning

http://www.achievethecore.org/ela-literacy-common-core/aligning-materials/basal-alignment-project

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/bringing-web-tools-to-gatsby-lee-ann-spillane

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Writing from Sources

• Standards in writing ask students to respond to evidence-based writing prompts (inform/argue).

• Writing needs to emphasize use of evidence to inform or make an argument rather than a personal narrative.

• Students develop skills through written arguments that respond to ideas, events, facts, and arguments presented in the text they read.

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Strategy Sharing

Writing from Sources and Using Mentor Texts• writing prompts

• Refer back to Achieve the Core website

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Academic Vocabulary

• Standards focus on building vocabulary that is shared across many types of complex texts and many content areas.

• Students constantly build the vocabulary they need to access grade level complex texts.

• Teachers strategically focus on teaching pivotal and commonly found words and less on esoteric literary terms.

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GENERATI

ON theory

discourse principled

Strategy Sharing

Academic VocabularyRoll, Say, Keep

Vocabulary Websites for ELLs

Roll Say Keep

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Any Questions?

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Building Capacity

3-2-1 ActivityWrite…

(3) things you learned today(2) things you will try and implement in your practice(1) question you still have

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Pinterest Poll:Please use your cell phone to answer the following

question.

Tell me your level of comfort with Pinterest

Text your answer code to 37607

356613 What’s Pinterest?

356614 I may have seen Pinterest, but I do not have an account.

356615 I have an account, but I have not pinned much of anything.

356616 I got boards and pins for everything!

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Wrap Up Collaboration

Please go to the wiki designed for this workshop.

Post a note on the Padlet wall stating how you might use Pinterest in the future.EducatorToolbox.wikispaces.com

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ResourcesNational Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance. Teaching Elementary School Students to be Effective Writers: Educator’s Practice Guide. 2012http://www.pdesas.org/http://www.commoncorearkansas.org/video/http://www.achievethecore.org/steal-these-toolshttp://pinterest.comhttp://www.polleverywhere.com/http://educatortoolbox.wikispaces.com/home

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