Literacy Instruction, Curriculum and
Coaching Panel
Moderated by Sharon Harper
Southeast CORE Director
Welcome to our Panelists
• Monty Wilson, Ed.S.
Instructional Supervisor,
Wilson County Schools
• Lisa Coons
Middle School Coordinator,
Sumner County Schools
• Linda Kennard, Ed.D.
Director, Curriculum & Instruction,
Shelby County Schools
Today our panelists will be discussing the
following three questions:
• How are you approaching literacy across subject
areas?
• How are your leveraging the Tennessee writing
assessment?
• How are you ensuring students are reading
complex texts? And additionally, how are you all
supporting students struggling with text complexity?
How are you supporting literacy
across subject areas?
Monty Wilson
Instructional Supervisor,
Wilson County Schools
Wilson County Professional
Development Plan for Common Core Literacy
• 2012 (Summer) –ELA teachers (full day), SS
teachers (1/2 day), and PE teachers (1/2) day.
• 2013 (Spring) – CTE teachers (1/2 day)
• 2013 (Summer) – Fine Art teachers (1/2 day) and
Science teachers (1/2 day)
ELA Initial Focus
• Incorporating non-fiction to
accompany literature
• Transitioning writing
assignments from “freeresponse” to “text based”
• Selection and use of
complex texts using
qualitative and quantitative
measures.
• Incorporating more analyses
of multiple texts
PE Initial Focus
• Why literacy is a school-wide
initiative
• How PE teachers can impact
student literacy
• Writing task – What are they?
How were they created?
• Text-based evidence
• How to grade a student’s essay
Health/Wellness Literacy Task
(Argumentation – Task 9)
After reading “New Guidelines Planned
on School Vending Machines,” write a
report that examines why school
vending machine laws were modified
and the effects of the legislative
change. What conclusions or
implications can you draw? Support
your discussion with evidence from
your research.
SS and CTE Initial Focus
• Why literacy is a school-wide
initiative
• How SS/CTE teachers can
impact student literacy
• Writing task – What are
they? How do we create
them? (Focus on LDC’s
Template Tasks)
• Text-based evidence
• How to grade a student’s
essay
Literacy Focus for all Content Areas in 6-12
(Mathematics excluded due to CRAs)
• ½ Day Training on Common Core (Included participants
completing a Literacy Task for Fine Arts)
• 9 hours of PLC time by course/cluster to create schoollevel Literacy Tasks which included …
– Two different informational texts to read
– One required literacy task for each article (included
summarizing, formulating central idea, identifying textual
evidence to support central idea, Tier-2 vocabulary questions
with textual evidence)
– Analytical writing assignment which required a comparison
of the two texts
Resources
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Literacy Design Collaborative Template Tasks
PARCC Model Content Frameworks
Appendix B Common Core Standards
Common Core Coaches and Trained Teachers
Holistic Rubrics
Samples Student Work
District Created Literacy Templates
Institute for Learning
Our Hope …
Increased
Student
Literacy
How are your leveraging the
Tennessee writing assessment?
Lisa Coons
Middle School Coordinator,
Sumner County Schools
2012-13 Writing Work: Phase One
OCTOBER
Gave pilot as cold assessment
WEEKLY
OCT PD
Teacher Professional Development:
state rubric and anchor papers
WEEKLY
NOV PD
Teacher Professional Development:
Model Scoring
and collaborative scoring sessions
Phase One Resources
State writing prompts
State anchor papers
State rubrics
Weekly PD schedule
2012-13 Writing Work: Phase Two
DECEMBER
Analyzed student growth and created
monthly writing maps
with weekly benchmarks
JANUARY
PD DAY
Trained Teachers on map objectives
and assessments
JANUARY
Map-based writing instruction
and provided weekly interventions
Phase Two Resources
Student results
Locally created maps
Additional prompts for benchmarks
All teacher PD day and weekly PLC time
2013-14 Writing Work
October
Analyzed formal writing prompt results
November
Plan new writing maps
(decentralized approach)
December
Teacher Professional Learning Options:
Anchors, Maps and Interventions
2013-14 Resources
State student results
Locally created building maps
New state rubric and anchor papers
Teacher leadership and weekly PLC time
How are you ensuring students are
reading complex texts? And
additionally, how are you all
supporting students struggling with
text complexity?
Linda Kennard, Ed.D.
Director, Curriculum & Instruction,
Shelby County Schools
ELA/Literacy Common Core Panel
Tackling Text Complexity
in Shelby County Schools
Dr. Linda Kennard
Director of Curriculum & Instruction
How are we ensuring that students are
reading complex texts?
• Align curriculum maps with the PARCC Model
Content Frameworks
• Provide teachers with Common Core aligned
resources
– Adopted texts
– Supplementary materials
Q U A R T E R S
Reading
Complex Text
PARCC Framework
Writing to Texts
Research
Project
Reading Complex Text
An extended text is in
addition to the
shorter texts
You can learn more
from the CCSS
Appendix B
Many of the
short texts are
from the Reading
Text Book
Please note
That there will be
literature and
informational
short text
each nine weeks.
Writing to Texts
Students must be writing
about what they are reading if
they are going to be ready for
the PARCC assessments that
begin in 2014-2015.
For more information on the
types of writing and samples,
see
CCSS Appendix C
Research Project
PARCC
Planning Guide
One
Research
Project
each nine
weeks.
Integrate knowledge
from sources when
composing
Integrate knowledge
from your Extended Text
with science and or
social studies when
writing.
Reading Complex Texts
Writing to Text
Research Project
SCS Curriculum Map
http://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php
Weeks 1-3
Reading
Complex
Text
Content
CCSS
SPIs
I Can..
What steps must be taken to cite evidence from the text when making a point or stating a
claim? What steps must be taken when formulating a summary? How does a narrator’s
point of view affect the meaning of a story?
SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – 5th
Short text selections - Literature
• Thunder Rose
• Island of the Blue Dolphin
• Inside Out
Short text selections - Informational
• Satchel Paige
• Shutting Out the Sky
• Passage to Freedom
Extended text
• The Secret Garden
SCS 1st Quarter Complex Texts – ENG II
ExtendedText:
Night, by Elie Wiesel
Short Stories:
• There Will Come Soft Rains
• By the Waters of Babylon
• The Masque of the Red Death
Informational Text
• Speech:
Keep Memory Alive – EXEMPLAR
• “The Babylon Captivity”
How we are supporting students struggling
with text complexity?
• Professional Development is ongoing, sustained,
and job embedded
• TNCore Coaches have created Seven Common
Core Study Groups Modules
• Open District web site that provides curriculum
maps, pacing guides, and PARCC planning guides
• Password protected (Weebly) for K-5 resources
teacher, district, and external links.
Common Core Study Groups
http://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ccsg.php
English Language Arts
http://www.scsk12.org/uf/ci/ela.php
English Language Arts- Elementary
www.scselementaryliteracy.weebly.com