The Framework: What Does It Look Like

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The FrameworkWhat Does It Look Like?

• By Stemley and Sycamore coaches

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Environment

• Teachers create a
• school climate of
• respect and civility
• using a predictable
• schedule, rituals and
• a warm, inviting
• environment.

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Cozy Areas for Reading and Writing
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We first began with environment

• Each Crafting area
• has a large rug to
• define the meeting
• space and a comfortable
• chair from which the
• teacher conducts the
• session or from which
• the children share.

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Reading areas look like home

• Teachers created
• areas for children to
• gather and relax with
• books. They have
• lamps, plants and
• pictures of the
• students.

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Classrooms have books displayed for easy access
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We also began by leveling and categorizing our
books
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Environment - Crafting

• Teachers create
• comfortable, inviting
• spaces for the whole
• class to meet during
• Crafting sessions.

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Crafting in reading and writing
Teachers use a variety of genre at a level that
is more than the childs instructional level to
think aloud and model for the whole group of
children.
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Crafting is not just for deep structure
strategies.

• Students
• practice surface
• structure strategies
• such as writing and
• spelling word wall
• words.

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Composing Meaning

• The teacher confers with individual students
  and/or meets with groups as children
  independently select and read a variety of text
  across the curriculum for pleasure and study or
  write from the heart.

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Teachers confer or assess with individual students

• Mrs. Doss is
• assessing Tobys
• reading level by
• listening to him read,
• retell, and answer
• comprehension
• questions.

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Composing MeaningStudents apply and manage
recently taught surface and deep structure
strategies.
Illustrating their book
Examining and exploring non-fiction books to use
as a model for writing.
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Composing Meaning
Students are reading their book for their book
club.
Students are reading in comfortable places and
self-selecting books.
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Composing Meaning
Keondra is writing in a reading response journal
Some students are reading from their bag of books.
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Composing Meaning Speaking/Listening

• Children explore
• ideas through talk
• during book clubs
• which promotes oral
• language development.

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Invitational groups

• Teachers identify
• groups based on
• shared need to apply
• strategies recently
• taught and explore a
• range of texts at an
• instructional level.

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ReflectionTeachers provide time to model ways
in which readers share and extend insights gained
during composing.

• Students share
• what they
• learned about
• themselves as a
• reader or writer.

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Not Just a Literacy Block time

• Literacy is incorporated throughout the school
  day in Science Investigations and Social Studies
  project work, Music, and Math.

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Assessments

• Cornerstone tracks a sample of students in K-3.
• There are three kinds of assessments given to the
  sample students each year.
• D.R.A.-measures reading ability and
  comprehension.
• Writing Assessment- measures their growth as a
  writer using a rubric.
• M.P.I.R.- measures deep structure strategies the
  reader uses while reading.

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D.R.A.
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For More Information

• www.cornerstone-literacy.org