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Discover the transformative impact of building knowledge through nonfiction texts, grounding skills in textual evidence, and practicing with complex academic language. Dive deep into Dimension II to enhance content understanding and bolster student achievement.
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Three Key Shifts in ELA/Literacy 1. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfictionand informational texts 2. Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from text, both literary and informational 3. Regular practice with complex text and its academic language
Explore Dimension II Outcome #3 Read to understand the text. Investigate by re-reading, recording questions/observations/vocabulary, and talking with a peer. Sift/sort through your investigations to identify evidence from the text. Culminate your thinking for this chunk of text.
How does Dimension II support my content? Outcome #3 Record/restate. Include your ideas/answer. Support your ideas/answer with evidence from the text. Conclude your piece of writing.
Relationships? ANCHOR STANDARDS Visual of Anchor Standards, Right Hand, Left Hand, and Lesson Plan LITERACY STANDARDS CONTENT STANDARDS
Apply Dimension II to Contentoutcome #4 • Choose a COS standard. • Craft an essential question based on the standard. • Choose a short chunk of text. • Apply the RISC strategy to the chunk of text. • Apply the RISC writing strategy to the chunk of text. • Identify the literacy grade band standards the strategies helps you meet. • Identify TWIRL. • Discuss how you might assess students throughout the lesson. • Look back at the planning questions-what do you notice about the planning questions and the planning tool?
Why RISC? • 1. It works across content areas and grade levels. • 2. It incorporates literacy standards WITH content standards. • 3. It adds rigor to reading and writing. • 4. It generates formative assessment to inform subsequent instruction. • 5. It can drive a unit of study because it can expand in rigor. For example, a writing RISC can begin as an exit slip or a paragraph and progress to an essay and eventually a research paper or project.
Next steps-RISCY Business!!! • Use RISC in your class. • Analyze your lesson based on Dimensions I and II and the planning questions. • Bring back a class set of student work samples.
You are the link! • Outcome # 5 Complete your planning template to take to your team session.