Structure of the Curriculum Roadmap

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Structure of the Curriculum Roadmap

• Instructional Elements (Phonemic Awareness,
  Phonics/Word Study, Vocabulary, Fluency,
  Comprehension, Writing)
• State Goal/ELL Standard
• Teacher Action
• Time of Year
• Assessment
• Instructional Component
• Instructional Learning Activity

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Building Background Knowledge for Academic
Achievement

• Development of academic vocabulary lists by grade
  level and content areas

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Making MeaningDevelopmental Studies Center

• Read Aloud/Strategy Lesson
• Retelling
• Making Connections
• Visualizing
• Wondering/Questioning
• Making Inferences
• Determining Importance
• Understanding Text Structure
• Summarizing
• Synthesizing
• Daily Independent Reading

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• Ongoing Staff Development
• Teachers in grades 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9
• Instructional Coaches

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Staff Development

• Test Taking Strategies
• The First 20 Days of Literacy Instruction
  Setting Up
• Classroom Instruction/Making Meaning
• Introduction/Modeling One day
• Grade Level Building Teams Coaches
• Grade Level Teams Principal/Coaches

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• Access to Reading Material Libraries
• Classroom
• School
• Public
• Survey of available resources in English and
  Spanish for independent and guided reading
  activities.

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Access to Reading Material

• 500 books per classroom.
• Lipson, Mosenthal, Mekkelsen, and Russ, 2004.
• 20 books per child.
• Hoffman, Salors, Duffy, and Beretvas, 2004.

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• Early Intervention and Continued Support for
  Literacy through structured/focused tutorial and
  small groups.

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• Assessment
• Community/Parent Support

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Who and When?

• All students in grades 3-8 will take the ISAT or
  IMAGE.
• The ISAT and IMAGE are administered between March
  13-24.

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Reading ISAT for 2006Part I

• 45 minutes
• Norm Referenced based on the Harcourt Brace --
  Stanford Achievement Test 10
• Six short passages for students to read
• Five to seven multiple choice questions per
  selection

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Reading ISAT 2006Part II

• 45 minutes
• Long reading passage (fiction or informational
  text)
• 12-18 multiple choice questions --In third grade
  the word analysis questions are imbedded not
  separate
• Extended response ISBE will use the current
  scoring rubric
• One Functional Reading Passage one page related
  to reading with five questions dealing with
  sequencing, following directions, or charts/graphs

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Reading ISAT 2006 Part III

• 45 minutes
• Long reading passage (fiction or informational
  text)
• 12-18 multiple choice questions
• There may be an extended response