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Language ArtsStandards BenchmarksCentral
CassSpring 2004

• Lets get crackin!

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ND Language Arts StandardsIn Review

• Students
• Engage in research process
• Engage in reading process
• Engage in writing process
• Engage in speaking/listening process
• Understand media
• Understand/use principles of language

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Levels of Evaluation

• Advanced Proficient
• Proficient
• Partially Proficient
• Novice

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Grade Level Meetings An Overview

• Grade level meetings took place the week of
  January 26- February 4. All elementary staff and
  specialists who teach in the language arts
  content areas participated by reviewing the state
  document and providing oral feedback.

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Survey Items

• Feedback of ND Standards Benchmarks
• Recommendations of additions to local document
• Current Curriculum Practices
• Individual classrooms
• Grade Level
• State requirements not being met in class/level
• Curriculum Recommendations
• Cut/Add..to meet state requirements

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Kindergarten

• Evaluation of Current Curriculum
• Always room for improvement!
• Similar practices share ideas
• Cross curricular integration
• Language experiences
• Alphabet books
• Literature-based experiences
• Language group w/speech language instructor
• Story bits connect letters/sounds to literature
• Letter snackseating through the ABCs
• Sentence writing w/punctuationhigh expectation?

• Recommendations for Additions to Local
• More emphasis on ending sounds
• Specify letter sounds covered short/long
  vowels, hard/soft consonant sounds
• Use sentence to convey a message
• Extend writing to experience with sentence
  writing and play write with punctuation
• Increase coverage of nursery rhymes
• Handwriting Curriculum/Standard

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1st Grade

• Evaluation of Current Curriculum
• Open Court Phonetic Reading Program utilized,
  but not an adopted curriculum
• Heath programstarts in spring
• DOL
• Curriculum supplements differ writing,
  spelling, daily journaling, word-a-day..more
  consistency, unity needed in supplementary

• Recommendations for Additions to Local
• Word-a-Day Program (vocabulary reading
  comprehension goal)
• Writing (6-Traits)
• Improve research media standards
• Spelling series?
• Review Open Court.balance of phonics
  comprehension?
• Handwriting Curriculum/Standard
• Heath PrePrimerpoor feedback

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2nd Grade

• Evaluation of Current Curriculum
• Same core curriculum
• Heath Reading Series (1990)
• DOLinconsistent use
• Spellinga list, not a program
• Language (1990), sequential series a positive
• Supplementary 4 Block in one classroom (word
  wall, guided reading, other)
• Question of incoming students difficulty with
  comprehension

• Recommendations for Additions to Local
• No standards/benchmarks to add, adjust to meet
  state guidelines
• Ready for a change in reading series
• Guided Reading? Theoretically used in one
  classroom
• Handwriting consistency
• Collect more information prior to adding a local
  standard for handwriting

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3rd Grade

• Evaluation of Current Curriculum
• Deficiency
• standard 1 (research) evaluate research
• Standard 2 (reading) organize/develop ideas,
  review topic organization, characteristics of
  non-fiction
• Heath Reading (1993)
• Language (1990)
• Spelling (manuals falling apart)
• DOLused daily? Curriculum followed?
• Shared supplementary materials

• Recommendations for Additions to Local
• Checklist format (math/science)
• Revisit letter writingnot presently a ND 3rd
  grade benchmark
• Add adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions
• DNealian Handwriting professional inservice
  recommended. Question of consistency with
  correct modeling.

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4th Grade

• Evaluation of Current Curriculum
• Health Reading
• Language Bookpoor
• DOL, DOA
• Day Book (Great Source) used by one classroom
• Inconsistent supplementary materials
• State deficiencies verbs prepositions,
  conjunctions, reading strategies, questioning
• MATERIA LS are the weakness

• Recommendations for Additions to Local
• Handwritingwhere listed in standards?
• If they cant write it, they cant read it!
• Prefer checklist format
• Local more specific coverage of nouns, pronouns,
  conventions, mechanics
• Focus on Standard 1
• Students evaluate research product using a rubric
• Focus on Standard 5
• WHAT is the library curriculum?

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5th Grade

• Evaluation of Current Curriculum
• So much at the state level!
• The secret is integrating!
• Confident with standards 2, 3, 6.
• Concern with research (1) and media (5).
• Reading text (1993)evidence of outdated stories
  (text, illustrations)
• Language (1990)
• DOL, DOA
• Spelling Seriesmore a home activity

• Recommendations for Additions to Local
• No extras to state requirements
• Focus on relevant
• Filter irrelevant text activities
• Add appropriate magazines to aide in media
  standard
• Emphasis on incorporation of technology INTO
  learning
• PowerPoint
• Graphic Organizers
• HyperMedia/HyperStuidio

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6th Grade

• Evaluation of Current Curriculum
• Easy to meet state requirements
• Goal extension
• Supplement Write Source 2000 fills gaps from
  language series.
• 6-Traits should focus on weaker areas in writing
  informative, narrative, persuasive
• DOL
• Reading (1991 1993)
• Language (1990) Not user-friendly
• Content-Related Spelling
• Dont address similes, metaphors, idioms,
  personification well

• Recommendations for Additions to Local
• Standard Benchmark Connectionknowledge of
  where 5th grade is and connect to 7th grade
• Integrate technology
• keyboarding
• Question Writing using a rubric a 4th grade
  standard, but not 6th
• Suggestion Each grade level choose specific
  literature to read EX 1st Ramona (Cleary),
  2nd Charlie Chocolate Factory (Dahl), 3rd
  Charlottes Web (White), etc.
• Upgrade reading language series

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Discussion

• Handwriting.a local standard?
• Sue Baumgartner, OT/PT 3 fine motor tests
• Addition to writing standard formation,
  alignment, spacing, legibility
• Consistent Reading Series 1-6? 1-5? Include
  kindergarten?
• DOL inservice/meeting to insure consistent
  practice of adopted curriculum
• Spelling Series
• Consistency
• Content Integration
• Revision of outdated textbooks to more closely
  align to standards?

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What Next?

• Curriculum Committee Discuss relevant factors
  required to align the curriculum with state
  local standards benchmarks.
• Grade level meetings conducted by grade level
  representative
• Specify local language arts benchmarks based on
  state
• Specify local language arts standards based on
  state
• Meet submit data by Friday, March 12.
• Goal Dates
• March 19 Data to Typing
• April 9 Finished Document
• April 16 Binder to Teachers
• We can add, but cannot delete!

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Collect staff input
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Imagine the Possibilities!
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Store Information
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Respect Differences
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Celebrate Our Successes!