Helping Each Arkansas Student Step up to a Bright Future Professional Development - Literacy Lab Classroom Project
Grade Levels
Grades 4-12 (English/Reading/Language Arts/Content/Resource and Media Specialists/Principals)
Approved Areas of Professional Development
- Instructional Strategies
- Assessment
- Principles of Learning
- Cognitive Research
- Building a Collaborative Learning Community
Description
This is a two-year, fourteen-day professional development opportunity designed to help teachers create a reading/writing workshop environment in their classrooms. The seven days of year-one training address the need for creating engaging literate classroom environments, as well as instruction in fluency and comprehension strategies. Year-two training is designed to help teachers use assessment to inform instruction and to facilitate writing workshop, vocabulary, and word study instruction.
Training Schedule
Year I
Day 1
Summer |
Characteristics of adolescent literacy; goals for adolescent readers; role of motivation; creating literate environments |
Day 2
Summer |
Access to appropriate materials; educating student choice |
Day 3
Summer |
Research into reading practice; the reading workshop classroom (elements and procedures) |
Day 4
Fall |
Fluency instruction; designing, maintaining, perpetuating classroom libraries |
Day 5
Fall |
Comprehension strategy instruction; review of research; best practices; gradual release of responsibility |
Day 6
Spring |
Modeling of comprehension strategies |
Day 7
Spring |
Modeling of comprehension strategies |
Year II
Day 1
Summer |
Assessment: Flynt-Cooter Informal Reading Inventory (fluency and comprehension); Motivation and engagement assessment |
Day 2
Summer |
Development Reading Assessment 4-8 (fluency, comprehension, access to appropriate text, motivation); Benchmark (CRT) test strategies |
Day 3
Summer |
Vocabulary/Word Study (This day will be conducted at your local Co-op plus a touch-back session with your Literacy Specialist one day in the fall) |
Day 4
Fall |
Writing Workshop Classroom (elements and procedures): independent writing, guided writing, investigations and procedures; teaching writing craft |
Day 5
Fall |
Writing Workshop Classroom (elements and procedures, continued) |
Day 6
Spring |
Writing Workshop (continued) |
Day 7
Spring |
Inquiry Writing |
Professional Texts
- Bringing Words to Life, by Beck, McKewown, and Kucan (1-57230-753-6), Guilford Press
- Craft Lessons, by Fletcher and Portalupi (1-57110-073-3), Stenhouse
- Developmental Reading Assessment 4-8 (DRA2 4-8) (one kit may be shared with up to 4 classroom teachers), by JoEtta Beavers (0-7652-7629-1), Pearson Learning
- The Fluent Reader, by Timothy V. Rasinski, (0-439-33208-7), Scholastic
- Guiding Readers and Writers, by Fountas and Pinnell (0-325-00310-6), Heinemann
- How Writers Work, by Ralph Fletcher (0-380-79702-X), Harper Trophy
- In the Middle, by Nancie Atwell (0-86709-374-9), Boynton/Cook
- Literacy Across the Curriculum, Southern Regional Education Board
- The Literacy Principal, by Booth and Rowsell (1-55138-146-X), Pembroke
- Live Writing, by Ralph Fletcher (0-380-79701-1), Avon Camelot
- Non-fiction Craft Lessons, by Portalupi and Fletcher (1-57110-329-5), Stenhouse
- Non-fiction Matters, by Stephanie Harvey (1-57110-072-5), Stenhouse
- Mechanically Inclined, by Jeff Anderson (978-157110-412-0), Stenhouse
- Reading Inventory for the Classroom, by Flynt and Cooter (0-13-106509-2), Gorsuch Scarisbrick
- Strategies That Work, by Harvey and Goudvis (1-57110-310-4), Stenhouse
- Word Journeys, by Kathy Ganske (1-57230-559-2), Guilford Press
- A Writer's Notebook, by Ralph Fletcher (0-380-78430-0), Avon Books
- Writing Workshop, by Fletcher and Portalupi (0-325-00362-9), Heinemann
For more information please contact:
Debbie Coffman
Arkansas Department of Education
K-12 Literacy Unit
Four Capitol Mall, Room 401-B
Little Rock, AR 72201
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