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About This Book

Prepare students to succeed with increasingly sophisticated reading and writing challenges. Designed for teachers of grades 4 5, this resource helps readers address the pivotal shift in learning expectations that occurs during the upper elementary years. Myriad templates, tools, and strategies are included to support collaborative teams as they work to establish a rich and robust plan for quality literacy instruction, assessment, and intervention.

Use this resource to inspire fourth- and fifth-graders to excel in reading and writing:

Understand the role PLCs and collaborative teams play in literacy development and reading comprehension strategies.
Obtain strategies and tools, such as the pre-unit protocol, for unpacking and clarifying literacy standards.
Explore adaptable, research-based instructional strategies, and learn how to plan high-quality literacy instruction that boosts student reading and writing skills.
Examine the four components of the gradual release model--(1) focused instruction, (2) guided instruction, (3) collaborative learning, and (4) independent learning.
Observe how to collaboratively score assessments and conduct effective data inquiry and analysis.
Study the powerful impact literacy has on student engagement and inclusivity.

Table Of Content

Introduction: Every Teacher Is a Literacy Teacher

Chapter 1: Establish Clarity About Student Learning Expectations

Chapter 2: Examine Assessment Options for Literacy

Chapter 3: Create a Learning Progression to Guide Instruction and Assessment

Chapter 4: Develop Collective Understanding of Learning Expectations

Chapter 5: Respond to Student Data to Ensure All Students Learn

Chapter 6: Differentiate Instruction Using the Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional Framework

Chapter 7: Plan High-Quality Literacy Instruction

Chapter 8: Select Appropriate Instructional Strategies

Chapter 9: Consider Equity in Literacy

Epilogue

Appendix A: Templates and Tools

Appendix B: Process for Prioritizing Standards

Appendix C: Depth of Knowledge Overview

Appendix D: Essential Understandings and Guiding Questions

Appendix E: List of Figures and Tables

References and Resources

Index

About the Authors

Kathy Class:

Kathy Glass is a former teacher who consults and presents nationally with K-12 teachers and administrators at schools, districts, conferences, and county offices of education. She offers a blend of professional development (PD) topics to target audiences in areas affecting curriculum and instruction. To deliver customized PD, she assists educators with strategic planning to determine objectives. Then she tailors PD based on requested topics such as, but not limited to:

· highlights of the ELA Common Core Standards

· implementation of the ELA Common Core or other standards-based curriculum using a backward design approach

· essential understandings and guiding questions to frame curriculum and instruction

· differentiated tools and instructional strategies

· pre-, formative, summative, and self-assessments

· alignment of six-traits writing instruction and assessment to curriculum goals

· unit and yearlong curriculum maps

· text-dependent questions to facilitate close reading, and more.

To help educators directly translate what she presents into effective classroom practice that impacts students, Kathy can provide a variety of PD opportunities (e.g., presentations, lesson demonstrations and modeling, coaching, collaborative unit design, etc.).

She is the author of six books: Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language (ELA) Arts Common Core Standards, 6-12 (May, 2013); Mapping Comprehensive Units to the ELA Common Core Standards, K-5 (© 2012); Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (©2009); Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum (©2009); Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (©2007); and Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based Lesson Plans and Rubrics (©2005). In addition, Glass has served as a reader and reviewer for Reader’s Handbook: A Student Guide for Reading and Learning (2002, Great Source Education Group) and as a contributing writer and consultant for the Heath Middle Level Literature series (1995, DC Heath and Co). Website: www.kathyglassconsulting.com; email: [email protected]