Literacy Collaborative

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Literacy Collaborative

• Achievement for
• Every Student

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• Literacy Collaborative is a comprehensive school
  reform model which includes long term
  professional development designed to improve
  student literacy.

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• It provides an instructional model that is
  student-centered, language-based, and
  process-oriented.

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Research Tested

• Lesley University engages in a network of
  universities nationwide to bring the most current
  research and best practices to schools
  implementing Literacy Collaborative.
• These universities conduct systematic assessment
  of model implementation by collecting and
  analyzing student test results from Literacy
  Collaborative schools.
• Their research results continue to shape the
  instructional framework of the model and revise
  the training and implementation process.

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• Aligned with New York State ELA Standards and
  supports the core performance indicators in the
  areas of reading, writing, listening, and
  speaking.
• Addresses the five areas of reading instruction
  stressed in the No Child Left Behind Act
  phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, fluency
  instruction, vocabulary instruction, and
  comprehension instruction.

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School Leadership Team

• The school-based leadership team supports,
  monitors, and collects data on the implementation
  of the Literacy Collaborative model.
• The team is made up of at least six members
  including the building principal, the literacy
  coordinator, classroom teachers, and school
  specialists.

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Literacy Coordinator

• Year 1 Receives 8 weeks of training
• Begins teaching the 2.5 to 3 hour
• language/literacy block in a classroom
• Year 2 Continues to teach the language/literacy
  block
• Provides staff development including
• initial and ongoing professional development
  sessions
• in-class assistance to teachers through
  demonstration, coaching, and reflection on
  teaching
• plans and works collaboratively with the school
  leadership team

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Primary Framework Grades K-2
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Literacy Collaborative
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Language and Word Study

• Application and Word Study System
• Phonics Lessons-Letters, Words, and How They Work
  by Fountas and Pinnell

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• Word Study Minilesson
• Syllables
• Onset and rhymes
• Beginning, medial, and ending sounds
• Blending
• Segmenting

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• Word Play
• Connecting letters and sounds
• Exploring the different ways we use our language
  while building vocabulary and learning the
  conventions of spelling, word use, and grammar

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• Poetry
• Reading, writing, and understanding poems and
  their structure
• Listening
• Expanding vocabulary
• Attending to meaning within a story

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Reading Workshop

• Interactive Read Aloud
• Auditory discrimination of rhymes, sound
  patterns, language structure, and fluency
• Shared Reading
• Connecting words by sound and letter patterns
• Using letter-sound knowledge to solve and check
  reading while retaining meaning and fluency.

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• Independent Literacy Centers
• Listening
• Math
• Social Studies
• Science
• Art
• Journal
• ABC
• Games
• Computer

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• Guided Reading
• Teacher prompting of small group reading for
  fluency, expansion of vocabulary, and reflect
  activities before, during, and after reading
  texts selected to meet their specific needs

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• Independent Reading
• Applying and practicing skills and knowledge

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Writers Workshop

• Interactive Writing
• Connecting writing to authentic experiences which
  are meaningful to children
• Becoming flexible with the language of texts to
  duplicate their meaning

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• Writing Minilessons
• Demonstrating the authors craft for various
  genres
• Sharing
• Taking the authors chair and reading for the
  class
• Independent Writing

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• Conferences
• Individualized attention to needs of writing,
  from mechanics to the authors language to
  achieve growth as writers

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Highlights

• The program accommodates the varying needs of
  students.
• It offers many opportunities for the integration
  of content area learning.
• Each day discussion focuses on making statements
  and asking questions, elaborating and explaining,
  listening and responding, expanding and
  respecting ideas of others.
• The teacher guides students as they integrate
  their new learning into automatic literate
  behaviors.
• The Literacy Collaborative framework provides an
  expansion of VCSDs current literacy initiatives
  with a long-term research based professional
  development program.