ARS Language & Literacy Curriculum

ARS PD Session 5

April 19, 2010

ARS Shared Book & Read Aloud: Taking a Closer Look

ARS Goals

• Best prac+ce • Essen+al early literacy skills • Knowledgeable educators • 21 century learning environments 

• Engaged parents and communi+es 

Agenda

Morning 

8:30 Gree+ng 

8:45 Tech Time 

10:00 DEW 10:15 Break 

10:30   Shared Reading Clip 1 

   Read Aloud Clip 1 

11:15  Shared Reading Clip 2 

   Read Aloud Clip 2 12:00 Lunch 

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1:00  Shared Book Clip 3 

   Read Aloud Clip 3 

2:00  Break 2:15  CBDM 

3:30  Flowers 

4:00  Closing 

Check for Understanding

Cloze Passage:  Fill in the blank.  Instruc+on that occurs through ___ book reading helps children develop oral language ___ and  __ knowledge. 

Challenge Ques4on: Rank order the following skills from higher to lower priority in beginning reading: 

*book handling, *listening, *allitera+on, *name wri+ng, 

*grammar 

TechTime

Objec4ves 

1.  Laptops ‐ PDF 2.  U‐Video Camera 

lesson & ac+vity 

3.  e‐Book Experience 4.  Mobile Learning 

Devices 

Logging On

•  Log‐in Informa+on –  USER: readingfirstsa1 –  PASS: sa1 

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Choose Discussion Forum

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View SlideShare

Download Powerpoint or PDF files

U-Video Activity

1.  Break into Cohort Groups 2.  Each classroom should open videos of Flowers 

ac+vi+es on their laptop 

3.  Share your Flowers videos with the Cohort Group 

4.  Share 1 example from Cohort Group with whole group 

U-Video File Transfer

1.  Plug U‐Video Camera into laptop USB port 

2.  Open U‐Video folder to view files 3.  Navigate to video folder 4.  Open Video folder on laptop 5.  Drag video file from U‐Video folder and drop 

into Video folder 

6.  Copying message will appear •  Do Not disconnect the U‐Video Camera! 

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1.  Choose Groups

2.  Select e-Book Research

3.  Click on TumbleBooks icon

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Designing an e-Book

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Observing teacher & student behaviors

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Variety of seating contexts

iPod Touch 

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Mobile Learning Devices

e-Book Activity

What are we learning so far… 

•  Requires adapta+ons in the sebng 

•  Requires old and new teaching prac+ces •  Focuses children’s aden+on on words which is what we intended in this field study.  

Designing & Building 21st Century Learning Environment

Our approach is to: •  Focus on a specific new technology e.g., e‐books  •  ‘Test it’ in the real sebng on a small scale with a few teachers who volunteer… 

•  Learn from what we observe; ‘iron out’ the bugs •  Develop an approach for larger‐scale implementa+on 

•  Teach teachers & introduce into all classrooms; con+nue to monitor. 

DEW Design…going further

•  Focus on design making the door, entry, walls another ‘teacher’ 

•  Focus on displaying children’s work/learning in all kinds of ways  

•  Accentuate the Topic Study & HT theme 

• Make the environment ‘beau+ful’ 

Design Features: 

• Color • Texture • Variety • Informa+on 

• Appeal 

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• Color • Texture • Variety • Informa+on 

• Appeal 

Use of wall space 

• Text • White space 

• Framing 

Procedure…for taking a closer look at Shared Book/Read Aloud

Steps: 1.  View the clip (whole group) 2.  Complete checklist (individually) 

3.  Share observa+ons (small group) 

4.  Iden+fy 2 key observa+ons (small group) 

5.  Share key observa+ons (whole group) You will do this 3x 

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1.  Choose Groups

2.  Select Teachers & Teaching Assistants

3.  Click on CBDM link

Flowers – March 29 – May 14

HT Topics: 

•  My Five Senses 

•  Weather  

•  Spring    

•  Backyard Creatures 

•  In the Garden    

Flowers Highlights

•  Assessment •  Vocabulary + photos/objects •  Phonological awareness 

– Rhyming 

– Allitera+on 

ARS Goals

• Best prac+ce • Essen+al early literacy skills • Knowledgeable educators • 21 century learning environments 

• Engaged parents and communi+es 

Closing

• Closing remarks/review 

• Comple+ng the online evalua+on