Literacy:
School Team Training Series
Writing Instruction:
Grades 3-12
(Participant Content)
Welcome
When I am writing, I am trying to find
out who I am, who we are, what we're
capable of, how we feel…I love it for what
it does for us, how it allows us to explain
the pain and the glory, the nuances and
delicacies of our existence.
– Maya Angelou
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Objectives for literacy training
Through this training, literacy teachers will:
• Understand the stages of Self-Regulated Strategy Development and be able to
apply these stages to help students improve their writing
• Understand the role of pre-assessment in writing instruction
• Recognize the effectiveness of using mnemonics as a strategy to help students
plan their writing
• Investigate the use of exemplar essays, graphic organizers, collaborative writing,
and peer feedback to help students improve their writing
• Apply the use of self-talk and think alouds to engage students in self-regulation of
thinking when planning and writing
• Understand the scoring process and look at student growth in writing.
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Agenda for the day
1. Introduction
2. Six Stages of Self-Regulated
Strategy Development (SRSD)
3. Wrap Up
•Questions? Write on note cards or
ask during activities
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Introductory video
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INTRODUCTION
TO SELFREGULATED
STRATEGY
DEVELOPMENT
(SRSD)
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Goals for Introductory section
Participants will:
•Identify Stages of Self-regulated Strategy
Development (SRSD)
•Outline the Bridge to Practice format
•Reflect on your current writing practices using a
self-assessment
•Review the Common Core State Standards for
Writing and Language; understand how SRSD can
support students in achieving the Common Core
State Standards
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Quiz
How many students scored proficient
or above on the latest NAEP (National
Association of Educational Progress)
Writing Assessments?
67%
33%
51%
27%
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Quiz
Writing ties with what other
academic skill as the greatest
predictor of college and career
opportunities?
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Writing - Then and Now
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What is SRSD?
Self-Regulated Strategy Development
Developed by Karen Harris, and colleagues
How would you describe:
•Strategies?
•Self-regulation?
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Remember…
•SRSD Is Not a scripted program
•SRSD is a pedagogical framework and a
collection of best practices
•SRSD offers resources
“I absolutely love that SRSD is not a program. It
is a set of procedures that I can internalize and
integrate into my existing program.” (Quote
from Karen Devereux, Literacy Specialist,
Barton VT)
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Why SRSD?
Sample 1 (Myths about Insects): Spiders, ticks and bugs
can creep in your house.
Sample 2 (Surprising caterpillar birth facts): There are
several facts about the birth of a caterpillar. the mother
lays its egg at the end of summer, then dies. The egg is
laid on a milkweed leaf. a newborn is up to 2-3
millimeters. when a baby caterpillar hatches it eats its
own eggshell. Maybe the egg is laid on a milkweed plant
to protect it from predators.
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Why SRSD?
A: Pre-test (Myths about insects)
Spiders, ticks and bugs can creep in your house.
B: Post-test (Surprising caterpillar birth facts)
There are several facts about the birth of a caterpillar. 1)
the mother lays its egg at the end of summer, then dies.
2) The egg is laid on a milkweed leaf. 3) a newborn is up
to 2-3 millimeters. 4) when a baby caterpillar hatches it
eats its own eggshell. Maybe the egg is laid on a
milkweed plant to protect it from predators.
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Still in Need of SRSD
•Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel
Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was
John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died
and he wrote Paradise Regained.
•Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving
people advice. They killed him.
•Homer wrote The Oddity, in which Penelope was the last
hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer
was not written by Homer, but by another man of that name.
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Self-Regulated Strategy Development
-6-stage gradual
release model
-Integrates writing
Process (stage 5): Plan,
write, revise, publish
-Explicit support and
immersion in real
writing
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SRSD works
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Bridge to Practice
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Bridge to Practice
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Self-Assessment
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Common Core Alignment
Reading
Writing
Speaking/
Listening
Language
Key Ideas and
Details
Text Types and
Purposes
Comprehension
and Collaboration
Conventions of
Standard English
Craft and Structure
Production and
Distribution of
Writing
Presentation of
Knowledge and
Ideas
Knowledge of
Language
Integration of
Knowledge and
Ideas
Research to Build
and Present
Knowledge
Range of Reading
and Level of Text
Complexity
Range of Writing
Vocabulary
Acquisition and Use
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Definition of Text Types
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Agenda for the day
1. Introduction
2. Six Stages of Self-Regulated
Strategy Development (SRSD)
3. Wrap Up
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