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Local District 4 Instructional Seminar #6 April 26, 2012 Dale Vigil, Ed.D., Superintendent
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Objectives
Evaluate the LPA in relationship to the CA 3rd Grade writing standards and the implications to the 3rd Grade Common Core writing standards Review the writing content and procedures in LPA #3 Analyze and evaluate lessons for instruction in the content and procedures Determine, for school site application, how to establish and sustain grade level proficiency in writing
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Background
With your elbow partner, recall your own fourth grade experience:
Can you recall what you were asked to write? Can you recall how you were instructed? At what point in your own life did you decidedly describe yourself as a proficient writer? What evidence did you have to prove your writing proficiency?
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Before we start discussing the sample lessons allow me to suggest a think aloud
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New perspectives in instruction
Throughout the teaching of a lesson we build more comprehensive perspectives of the student, instruction and content.
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New perspectives in instruction
Throughout the teaching of a lesson we build more comprehensive perspectives of the student, instruction and content.
an opportunity to practice procedures to improve writing in general? explicitly designed to teach the content? designed to do both?
Recall purpose, syntax, and student outcomes in evaluating the lesson.
Journal
Thinking of this current school year:
What did you observe in the writing of your students? What evidence, do you recall, demonstrates they can independently write to the grade level standards?
Common Core
Writing
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So Now Lets Look at the College Career Readiness and Anchor Standards for Writing
Review the Anchor standards Draw a bracket { on items 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9 Review and discuss with your elbow partner the following. If you had to name the clusters, which cluster would you name the What, How, and Why cluster? Come to consensus as a table
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Thank You
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