Crystal Robinson
BTSS 2013

Strengthen Your Core:
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Integrating Fig. 19 into your daily lesson plans (higher order thinking)
Focuses on genre
Using foldables and graphic organizers
Using your core curriculum more effectively
Foster differentiation
Allows for open-ended, authentic responses
Provides consistency through a routine format

10 Steps to a toned curriculum!

Strengthen Your Core
1. Look at your TEKS!
2. Identify your genres and Fig.19 skills
3. Choose your sequence.
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O This is basically your six weeks plan.
O Each team member must be a part of the planning process.

Literary Texts
O Literary Non-Fiction
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Poetry
Drama
O Fiction
Informational Texts
O Culture & History
O Expository
O Persuasive
O Procedural

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Establish purposes for reading texts
Ask questions of texts
Monitor and adjust comprehension
Make inferences and provide textual evidence to support understanding
Summarize information
Make connections

Strengthen Your Core
4. Check your core.
5. Find picture books.
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O Your librarian and your reading specialist are your best friends!

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The core curriculum has great resources and the main TEKS have already been identified for you.
You can use the stories and adapt the questions/activities to fit your specific needs.
This does not follow the sequence of the book.

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This is a great way to introduce the concepts/skills for each unit.
The students enjoy being read to at every age.
Teacher models good fluency and expressive reading.
Unique way to engage the students.
Can also use books on tape, a guest reader, and Reading Rainbow

Strengthen Your Core
6. Create your foldable.
7. Create your questions using question stems.
8. Create your assessment.
9. Choose re-enforcement activities.
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This must be completed before you begin teaching the unit.
Each team member must be a part of the creative process.

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Fosters open-ended responses
Allows for easy differentiation of texts and products
Exposes students to multiple graphic organizers
Re-enforces writing skills
Reusable
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There are some examples on the table for you to view!
I’ve included a bi-fold and tri-fold template in the iSummit app.

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Questions from the book
Revised Blooms http://tpri.wikispaces.com/file/view/05-
2Bloom-16-17+Stems+for+Instruction.pdf
Margaret Kilgo Question Stems
Use examples from released STAAR tests
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You can use the same questions again and again with just a little tweaking.
Must be created and agreed upon by the team.

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The Adventures of Ali Baba
Kid Reporters at Work
Ranita, the Frog Princess

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Re-Enforcement Activities
Reflections & Connections PPT
O Read short story from core (2 pager)
O Partner discuss
O Group share
O Marbles & passes for participation
Reading Menu
Test Prep Workbook from Core
Worksheets
Interactive Games
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O All of these can be completed in centers, with a partner, in guided reading groups, independently, or as a whole group lesson.

Strengthen Your Core
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I Do (Introduce)
O Teacher introduces key vocabulary
O Teacher models with a picture book and kids copy the notes
We Do (Practice)
O Partner/group work using 2-3 stories from core with teacher as facilitator
You Do (Assess)
O Independent work using leveled texts

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Lasts 2-3 weeks
Uses multiple texts
Repetitive
O Introduction, practice, and assessment are exactly the same format
Sample Lesson Cycle

Strengthen Your Core
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Look at your TEKS!
Identify your genres and Fig. 19 skills
Choose your sequence.
Check your core.
Find picture books.
Create your foldable.
Create your questions using question stems.
Create your assessment.
Choose re-enforcement activities
REPEAT steps 4-9 for each unit.

Practice
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Foldable and questions completed with partner/group
Worksheets
Application
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Foldable/questions completed with partner/group
Test Prep Workbook
Reading Menu Activities
Evaluation
O Foldable/questions complete independently
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Teacher Created Test
Student Weekly Assessment Book from the core
(can create your own questions)