11.09.17 Literacy Committee Agenda #trinitylearns

November 10, 2017November 10, 2017 Marsha Harris Committee Learning Plan and Agenda, Literacy Professional Development

Date: Thursday November 9, 2017

3:00	3:05	Welcome/Maintenance
3:05	3:20	Compliment Conference Check-in Review what a Compliment Conference is Conferring Notebooks and feedback What does it look like in your classroom now? What is your goal for conferring?
3:20	3:45	Share Conferring Notebooks
3:45	3:55	Tips for Conferring in Small Groups I learned, I liked, I wonder Final Thoughts: Read pgs. 67-69 Before our next meeting read pgs. 70-75
Parking Lot: Literacy Committee members facilitate conferring conversation and gallery walk at next team meeting. Reiterate that conferring is our goal.

10.11.17 Literacy Committee Meeting #trinitylearns

October 11, 2017 Marsha Harris Literacy Professional Development

Individualized Daily Reading- Conferring with Students

EED- Watch Chris/Elise (Reading)

UED- Watch Lauren/Gretchen (Writing)

EED- Watch Nicole/Julia (Writing)

UED- Watch Grace/Kerry (Reading)

Date: Wednesday October 11, 2017

3:40	3:50	Welcome/Maintenance Please sign up for snacks Share bright spots
3:50	4:00	Review of Mini Lesson- Mini Lesson- Envisioning to Write with Detail Look for the… Connection Teaching Active Engagement Link
4:00	4:25	Conferring with Readers Chapter 5- Reinforcing Students’ Strengths: Compliment Conference Read, Discuss, Share your 3 big points Group 1 pg. 48-50 Why Start with Strengths Group 2 pg. 50-54 Individual Compliment Conf. Group 3 pg. 54-60 Table Compliment Conf. Complement Conference- Jen Serravallo- Compliment Conference Read Lucy Calkins- Chapter on Conferring with Readers Decide Compliment
4:25	4:30	Final Thoughts Please go back and share what you have learned about the Compliment Conference with your team. Bring your conferring notebook with student notes to share at the next meeting on Thursday, November 9.
Parking Lot:

Conferring With Readers Book Study

09.13.17 Literacy Committee Agenda #trinitylearns

September 13, 2017September 13, 2017 Marsha Harris Committee Learning Plan and Agenda Conferring with Readers

Here is the agenda for our first Literacy Committee meeting of the year!

Date: Wednesday September 13, 2017

3:40		Welcome from the committee chairs and goals for the year Maintenance Greet someone in a different grade level that you don’t see often. Learn about them and their literacy instruction (strengths and weaknesses)
3:50		Gallery Walk T-Chart of Confident/I Want to Know More- sticky notes on chart paper Reading, Writing, Grammar, Spelling, Listening, Word Study, Vocabulary
4:10		Book Study- Conferring with Readers PD Strategy Lessons in Reading: Conferring with Small Groups
4:20		Discuss Anchor Charts for Reading and Writing Workshop
4:25		Final Thoughts
Parking Lot:

2017-18 Literacy Committee Goals #trinitylearns

September 7, 2017 Marsha Harris Open Registration Professional Development

2017-18 Goals:

Continued work on vertical alignment to create a balanced literacy curriculum
Expanding knowledge of best practices and their role in our current program (mini-lesson, conferring, small/strategy group, read-aloud, mentor text/sentences)
Sharing work with grade level teams to grow our entire community as teachers
Raising the level of teacher confidence and gaining clarity in what deepening learning means in literacy through assessment practices

06.07.17 Assessment and Differentiation #TrinityLearns

June 8, 2017June 9, 2017 Marsha Harris All School Professional Development Plans, Assessment @JSerravallo, @marshamac74, The Literacy Teacher's Playbook

Summer Literacy and Mathematics Professional Learning
June 5-9, 2017
Day 3: Assessment and Differentiation
Marsha Harris (@marshamac74)

Assessment and Differentiation

I can collect data that will be the most useful
I can analyze data to understand deeply what kids know and can do
I can synthesize data from multiple assessments to create learning goals
I can develop instructional plans and follow-ups to monitor progress.

The Literacy Teacher’s Playbook- Book Study

8:30-11:15 Slide Presentation

8:45-9:00

15 min

Welcome

Review of Agenda

9:00-9:45

45 min

Collecting Data: Assessment Lenses and Tools

I Do, We Do, You Do

Research- each person takes
on a part to learn (15 min)

Reading Engagement and Interest Inventories
Reading Fluency
Print Work/Decoding
Comprehension
Conversation
Writing Engagement and Qualities

Teach- each person teaches
their section (5 min each)

9:45-10:30

45 min

Analyzing Data: Making Discoveries

Research- each person takes on
a part to analyze (15 min)

See slide presentation for assignment

Teach- each person teaches their section
and gives an analysis on Marielle (5 min each)

10:30-11:15

45 min

Interpreting Data and Establishing Goals for Trinity Students

How do we KNOW what students already KNOW?

PAST,
CTOPP,
Running Records,
Spelling Inventory,
Math Assessment,
Writing Sample,
ERB’s, Progress
Reports

Summarizing Data Form–
Tool/Strength/Possibilities for Growth

06.06.17 Conferring with Writers #TrinityLearns

June 8, 2017June 8, 2017 Marsha Harris Summer Professional Development Plans @JSerravallo, @LisaEickholdt, @marshamac74

Summer Literacy and Mathematics Professional Learning
June 5-9, 2017
Day 2: Making the Most of Conferring in Writing Workshop

Lisa Eickholdt (@LisaEickholdt)

The Writing Strategies Book- Jennifer Serravallo

Slide Presentation- Launch Unit Generating Ideas

Marsha’s Notes:

The heart of teaching is during the conference

YOU ARE THE BOSS OF YOUR OWN WRITING!

Complement Stems

I notice you…I see you’re the kind of writer who…
That’s important because….
Every time you write you can…and it will…

“What are you working on as a writer?” What have you learned in mini-lessons that you’re working on as a writer? Goal- follow the child’s lead!

When you’re done, you’ve just begun!

Use mentor texts and anchor charts so that your teaching will STICK! A compliment conference will validate their use of the teaching point.

Writing Pathways has all of the grade level writing samples. Copy them and put them in student writing folders. Spend 3 days immersing in the genre before you teach.

Open Genre Unit? Allow the kids to choose their own genre of writing for a few weeks. Ralph Fletcher- Joy Write

Idea Generating Strategies are great launch units at the beginning of the year

Resources for Anchor Charts

https://chartchums.wordpress.com/tag/charts/

Writing Conference with Harold and Amanda

Providing and then Withholding Scaffolding to Support one Child’s Early Understanding of Narrative Structure (K-2) from TC Reading and Writing Project on Vimeo.

Typically confer with 4 students per session

Teaching Moves During a Conference

Craft- how do you make your writing more interesting?

Process

Goals and Habits

Pg 30- Learning From Classmates- Eickholdt

Meaning/Focus

Structure CUPCAKE

Elaboration/Details

Craft FROSTING/SPRINKLES

Conventions

Writing is like a cupcake…Frosting & sprinkles are craft and convention but meaning, structure, and elaboration is the cupcake

Touch and write across the pages…oral rehearsal is key

Step 1: Immersion (study the genre that you’ll be teaching, think, plan, sketch and label, write, reread and revise, reread and edit)- use mentor texts from old students

Before revision, vision!

Stop being a hunter of errors and look for the beauty of the content!

Carl Anderson- Assessing Writers

Don’t write the watermelon, write the seed- Calkins

Focus

Narrow the Timespan- seed- slice of time
Angling Writing- so what? Why are you writing this?- each page has an angle about one focus…My Sister is a Daredevil, My Brother is my Best Friend

Elaboration

Inside Story- tell me what you’re thinking and feeling/Flash forward and Flash back
Exploding Moment- the most volume of writing should be about the focus
Add in Talking, Thinking, and Specific Body Actions- bring character to life by making them talk

Structure and Organization