NAF Literacy Strategies and Instructional Supports

Daniel Wallace, Ed.D.

Instructional Manager

Central & Southeast Regions

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By the end of this webinar, participants will:1. Have a better working knowledge of the

curriculum handbook2. Overview of NAF’s approach to Literacy3. We will also discuss examples of

instructional supports that can be made available to students in your NAF academy.  

Literacy and Common Core Standards

“As a natural outgrowth of meeting the charge to define college and career readiness, the Standards also lay out a vision of what it means to be a literate person in the twenty-first century. Indeed, the skills and understandings students are expected to demonstrate have wide applicability outside the classroom or workplace. Students who meet the Standards readily undertake the close, attentive reading that is at the heart of understanding and enjoying complex works of literature. They habitually perform the critical reading necessary to pick carefully through the staggering amount of information available today in print and digitally.”

 

Common Core State Standards Initiative

The goal of literacy instruction is the attainment of fluency

FLUENCYFLUENCY

Reading Writing

Speaking

Use Vocabulary

Construct Meaning

Interpret Texts

Question

Have you reviewed the NAF Curriculum

Handbook?

Lets examine the NAF Handbook on the website..

Do you feel more comfortable now with the handbook?

Literacy improves by communicating with an audience

NAF curriculum employs a wide range of audiences

How does an audience improve literacy?

• Classmate

• Small group

• Whole class

• Invited guests

• Professionals as recipients of letters and emails

Students publish their work in a wide range of venues

• Sharing with a partner or small group

• Presenting to the class in a gallery walk

• Sending or emailing to an Advisory Board Member or guest speaker

• Publishing a class directory or in the school newspaper

• Submitting to a newspaper or magazine

• Posting online

• Making a formal presentation

Writing genres in NAF courses include texts students will encounter in college and career

• Essays (personal, explanatory, persuasive)

• Research reports

• Business letters, memos, emails, and proposals

• Resumes and cover letters

• Directions

• Skits

• Editorials, reviews, blogs

• Ads, brochures, press releases

Every NAF literacy activity includes clear expectations

• Set the context for students

• Use concrete tools: prompts, graphic organizers, specific instructions

• Ensure that students understand the goal

• Give students examples of the end product

Students need to know what to do, why, and what the end effort should look like. Provide explicit guidance:

NAF courses use key strategies to build vocabulary

1. Taxonomy

2. Defining Format

3. Composing with Key Words

A taxonomy is a personal list of terms about a topic

• Tell students to come up with as many words as they can about a particular topic.

• On their taxonomy worksheets, write down each word next to the letter the word begins with.

• Have students compare lists with a partner and add any words they haven’t thought of to their own.

• Add more words by sharing with a group or doing a gallery walk.

• Continue to add words throughout the lesson.

Taxonomy of Color

The defining format captures a word’s characteristics

Question Category Characteristics

What is dessert?

Dessert is a course of a meal

that

NAF courses employ many other literacy activities

• Reading Jigsaw teaches students to cooperate, summarize, and present

• SQ3R is a time-tested reading comprehension activity

• Anticipation Guides reveal assumptions and require articulating new learning

SQ3R

Francis Pleasant Robinson

Effective Study (1946)

……is a reading comprehension method named for 5 steps that originally was for college students

SURVEY - gather the information necessary to focus and formulate goals

1. Read the title - help your mind prepare to receive the subject at hand.

2. Read the introduction and/or summary - orient yourself to how this chapter fits the author's purposes, and focus on the author's statement of most important points.

3. Notice each boldface heading and subheading - organize your mind before you begin to read - build a structure for the thoughts and details to come.

4. Notice any graphics - charts, maps, diagrams, etc. are there to make a point - don't miss them.

5. Notice reading aids - italics, bold face print, chapter objective, end-of -chapter questions are all included to help you sort, comprehend, and remember.

QUESTION - help your mind engage and concentrate.

One section at a time, turn the boldface heading into as many questions as you think will be answered in that section. The better the questions, the better your comprehension is likely to be. You may always add further questions as you proceed. When your mind is actively searching for answers to questions it becomes engaged in learning.

READ - fill in the information around the mental structures you've been building.

Read each section (one at a time) with your questions in mind. Look for the answers, and notice if you need to make up some new questions

RECITE - retrain your mind to concentrate and learn as it reads.

After each section - stop, recall your questions, and see if you can answer them from memory. If not, look back again (as often as necessary) but don't go on to the next section until you can recite.

REVIEW - refine your mental organization and begin building memory.

Once you've finished the entire chapter using the preceding steps, go back over all the questions from all the headings. See if you can still answer them. If not, look back and refresh your memory, then continue.

NAF literacy activities are carefully matched to the task

Experiential learning is paired with the appropriate literacy activity

Literacy activities may be unique to a specific course

Every NAF lesson supports retention and integration of new learning through closure

• Assimilate new content by putting it into their own words

• Apply new content to their own lives

• Extend learning by considering new situations and scenarios

• Develop metacognition (….allows people to know what they know, or to think about their thinking. Metacognitive processes include planning, monitoring one's own thoughts, problem solving, making decisions and evaluating one's thought processes. It also involves the use of strategies for remembering information.)

Final reflections and closing discussions help students to

Let’s take a reflective moment………

Do you think your students exposed to this kind of literacy instruction would be more inclined to read on their own?

Instructional Managers:

Northeastern Region

Laura Fidler: Laura@naf.org

Western Region

Aazam Irilian: arilian@naf.org

Central & Southeastern Region

Daniel Wallace: daniel@naf.org

NAF Regional Support

West RegionBeth Kay, Regional Director bkay@naf.org

Morgan Pulleyblank, Academy Development Manager morgan@naf.org

Aazam Irilian, Instructional Manager arilian@naf.org

Ana Morrison, Network Liaison amorrison@naf.org

Central Region

Rebecca Privett, Regional Director rprivett@naf.org

Jessica Felix, Academy Development Manager jfelix@naf.org

Dan Wallace, Instructional Manager dwallace@naf.org

Fred Press, Network Liaison fpress@naf.org

Northeast Region

Tanya Navas, Regional Director tnavas@naf.orgLaura Fidler, Instructional Manager lfidler@naf.orgMaria Alutto, Academy Development Director malutto@naf.orgSarah Hickert, Academy Development Manager NYC

shickert@naf.orgJen Geisler, Network Liaison jgeisler@naf.org

Southeast Region

Jeanine Flynn, Regional Director jflynn@naf.orgSteve Brown, Academy Development Director

sbrown@naf.orgJeanne Friedman, Academy Development Director

jfriedman@naf.orgDan Wallace, Instructional Manager

dwallace@naf.orgTony Asplin, Network Liaison aasplin@naf.org

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