Leadership Team

Meeting

April 17, 2013

Bellringer

How do you use formative assessment grades in your classroom or building?

Clear Learning Goals

1. Communicate student achievement through summative assessments not through practice and formative assessments (learning process).

2. Utilize the most recent achievement evidence to determine grades.

3. Create text dependent questions to go with the accompanying passage.

Close Reading

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Close Reading

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Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions

Attributes of Close Reading lessons:

Selection of a (brief), high quality, complex text

Individual reading of the text

Rereading the text

Text-based questions and discussion that focus

on discrete elements of the text

Discussion among students

Writing about the text

Close Reading – Demonstration Lesson

• I Have a Dream – Excerpt

Analyzing Text Dependent Questions

Text Dependent Questions…

• Are questions that can only be answered with evidence from the text

• Can be literal but can also involve analysis, synthesis, evaluation

• Focus on word, sentence and paragraph as well as larger ideas, themes or events

• Focus on difficult portions of text in order to enhance reading proficiency

• Do not rely on students possessing background knowledge or experiences to answer

Text Dependent?

• Is there equality for all in 2013? What evidence do you have to support your claim?

• In paragraph 3, Kings leads us to understand who he is speaking of when he talks of equality. Based on his words in this paragraph, who is he referring to?

• Was there ever a time you were treated unfairly? How did it make you feel?

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Text Dependent?

• Based on this passage, what is King’s dream for his children? State it in your own words.

• What imagery is being created in the fourth paragraph? What figurative language is used to create this image?

• What would you have done if you were in the crowd hearing Dr. King’s speech?

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Close Reading – Demonstration Lesson

• I Have a Dream – Excerpt

Multiple Reads

Create Some Text Dependent Questions Framing TDQs

• Ask why the author chose a particular word

• Analyze the impact of the syntax of a sentence

• Collect evidence like a detective on a case

• Tests comprehension of key ideas and arguments

• Look for pivot points in a paragraph

• Track down patterns in a text

• Notice what’s missing or understated

• Investigate beginnings and endings of texts

• Analyze how portions of the text relate to each other/ the whole

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Non-Text Dependent Questions

• Are books without pictures or conversations useful?

• How would you react if you saw a talking rabbit?

• Would Alice have followed the rabbit down the hole had she not seen it look at a watch?

• What do you know about Lewis Carroll?

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Text Dependent Questions

• Why wasn’t Alice “burning with curiosity”when she initially saw the rabbit? Whatsubsequent events led to her feelingthis way?

• In the opening paragraph Alice states“what is the use of a book… withoutpictures or conversation?” What doesthat sentence reveal about her?

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Text Dependent Questions

• What details about the rabbit catchAlice’s eye in the third paragraph?

• Around what word does the meaning ofthe third paragraph pivot? How does thatchange the initial meaning of the paragraphand channel it in a new direction?

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Summer DILT Meeting Dates

July 24 & 25

8:30-3:30

Central Elementary

Library

2013-2014 Work

•New Science Standards•PGES – Professional Growth & Effectiveness System

•Unit Plans

•Common Assessment

•Standards Based Grading

•Continue Literacy Work

Exit SlipWhich grading fix did you select to implement this year in your classroom & why?