NRMPS 6-12 ELA Common Core PD
August 23, 2012
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Bob Alexander, 6-12 ELA Ed. Specialist
Jennifer Sharpe, Assistant Principal, RMHS
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Our Mission:
Ensuring bright and prosperous
futures for ALL students by
deliberately and intentionally
providing rigorous and relevant
instruction in every classroom,
every day.
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6-12 ELA CC Professional Development Session Agenda
AGENDA
TIME
WHO
NOTES
Welcome/Introductions
5 minutes
Bob and Jennifer
Overview of Maps
30 minutes
Content Area Resource
Sharing
Break
Model Lesson
15 minutes
Afternoon Expectations
Exit Ticket
15 minutes
Educational
Specialists, Coaches,
and Curriculum
Writers
Curriculum Writers,
Educational
Specialists and
Coaches
Ed.
Specialist/Coaches
All Participants
Educational
Specialists and
Coaches
Educational
Specialists and
Coaches
10 minutes
45 minutes
Jennifer
Bob
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Bob and Jennifer
Bob
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Overview of Curriculum
Maps
Jennifer Sharpe
6-12 Curriculum Map Team
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Content Area Resources
Bob Alexander
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Model Lesson Sharing
“Why We Fight”
Bob Alexander
Jennifer Sharpe
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TASK
Tasks:
 Practice close reading coaching skills and techniques
that facilitate teaching complex informational text.
This includes:
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Inspectional (1st) reading of an informational text
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A 2nd reading of the text
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Identifying essential vocabulary.
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Transition to planning and writing a lesson (draft)
that models the ELA CC Literacy Cycle.
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Writing (5-10 mins)
Journal/Day Book Warm-up:
“What would you fight for?
Why?
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What is a “Literacy Cycle”?
A complete “cycle” of
the reading, writing,
speaking, listening,
and language skills as
defined by the
Common Core.
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Preparing for Inspectional Reading
Using 1 sheet of paper, create this 4 domain Vocab Chart
Content Related
High Frequency
Related to Geography
Rarely Used
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Inspectional Reading: Essential Elements
Text: “Great Arsenal of Democracy” by FDR
 Examine/identify text type, author, date.
 Mark up text: number each page (8)
 Number each paragraph (41),
 Identify the central ideas/themes
 Mark vocabulary—unfamiliar words, uncertain words,
unusual words;
 Underline and label sentences, phrases of confusion or
interest.
 Make marginal notations.
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Inspectional Reading/2nd Reading
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Identify type and structural components of the text
What do I see? What information is given clearly?
What information is missing? What type of sentence
structure do you see? Rhetorical devices?
Build an essential vocab list, define those terms.
Briefly summarize each paragraph in the margin.
As a “teacher reader” begin to identify potential
challenges to teaching this text.
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Pair and Share
With partners or in groups,
compare your inspectional
reads, discuss your
observations, identify your
challenges. Reflect on the
“inspectional read”
process.
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NC Professional Teaching Standards Connections:
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3.01 Teachers align their instruction with the North Carolina Standard
Course of Study
3.02 Teachers know the content appropriate to their teaching specialty.
3.04 Teachers make instruction relevant to students.
4.01 Teachers know the ways in which learning takes place, and they know
the appropriate levels of intellectual, physical, social, and emotional
development of their students.
4.02 Teachers plan instruction appropriate for their students.
4.03 Teachers use a variety of instructional methods.
4.05 Teachers help students develop critical thinking and problem-solving
skills.
4.08 Teachers use a variety of methods to assess what each student has
learned.
5.01 Teachers analyze student learning.
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Independent Practice: PROCESS
Plan and create a (draft) lesson that follows the “Common
Core Literacy Cycle”:
Process:
 Select specific Common Core R,W,S,L and L Standards
 Select an informational text from your grade level/content
 Use the ELA CC Literacy Cycle Planning Tool (blank)
 Populate the ELA CC Literacy Cycle Lesson Template
(blank) with as a high a level of detail as possible.
 Submit a HARD copy of the lesson to your administrator
by the end of your workday on Friday, August 24.
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Independent Practice: PRODUCT
Submit the following items for this exercise:
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A completed ELA CC Literacy Cycle Planning Tool
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A copy of the selected informational text, “marked
up” with your Inspectional Read, and 2nd reading
notations.
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A copy of your (draft) lesson on the ELA CC
Literacy Cycle Lesson Planning Template.
4.
Make every effort to include with/in your lesson as
much as possible supporting information including
rubrics, tools, assignments.
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Questions?
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Ticket Out the Door…
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