ELA Vertical Team Meeting October 7, 2011

CES Benchmarks
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Items to be Discussed

Notes

Welcome Gain interest to set goals for future meetings.

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Student Achievement Classroom Practice Organizational Practice Community Connections Leadership

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Student Achievement Classroom Practice Organizational Practice Community Connections Leadership

CCSC, Anchors, College and Career Readiness- WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN??? Anchor Standard Sort Discussion of what these mean for your instruction Capacities of a Literate Individual Informative Writing Through the CC Mapping Big Ideas What? So What? Now What? Of your grade level What differences do we see among grade levels? What similarities do we see vertically? Making them Work for YOU! Examining a completed rubric Lets do one together- 4th grade Time to work on writing a specific Informative Writing Rubric for your grade level. (Partners for support) Share out and Discuss to show how they connect Follow-Up Bring a piece of Informative Writing from your grade level. Use your rubric to grade this assignment. We will examine how the work progresses over the grade levels. Become familiar with the Opinion/Argument Writing Big Ideas so we can unpack these next time.