AIS-R Secondary: Supporting Disciplinary Literacy in the Secondary Classroom by EKC

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Disciplinary Literacy: The Basics

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Disciplinary Lenses

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VIP Academic Language

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Claims, Transitions, Counterclaims, Sources, and the stems we use to organize our ideas. Gold for our students!

Problem Solving Plan: Editable

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Use this tool, or something like it, to have students engage with the Math Claims from the Common Core.

Problem Solving Plan: PDF

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Use this tool, or something like it, to have students engage with the Math Claims from the Common Core.

Claim, Evidence, Reasoning Graphic Organizer

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Scaffold to help students make sense of their mathematical argumentation.

CER Sentence Stems for Middle School

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De-mystify disciplinary literacy in your middle school class. Give them sentence stems, so the mathematical thinking is the center of the work. The language does not have to get in the way!

CER Math Rubric

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Assess CER in Math using this student-friendly tool. Challenge your students to become Math Wizards and Number Ninjas!

Assessing Math Literacy in Mathematics

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Here are some rubrics that take a holistic picture of the Common Core Math Practices - consolidating from 8 to 3: concepts and procedures, problem solving, and communicating reasoning.

Read, Filter, Write, Draw, Solve

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As students work on fluency and more automaticity, here's a way to help them break it down. Part of mathematics is helping students get to the important and dump the un-important!

MS Science CER Sentence Stems

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Using scientific language is hard! Remove barriers by providing sentence stems for claim, evidence, and reasoning, along with the language students need to synthesize their scientific thinking.

Engaging in Argumentation from Evidence

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Here's a Paul Andersen goodie for you, if you haven't seen it.

CER Graphic Organizer

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Good for science and math, too. Pair it with the sentence stems.

NGSS Friendly Rubric for Constructing Explanations

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NGSS Friendly Rubric for Argumentation

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Don't forget to pair this with sentence stems and a graphic organizer.

Syntax Surgery

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Texts are chock full of transitional words. Let's model for students what they mean and how to use them for deeper content understanding.

It's All About Disciplinary Vocabulary

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Find a strategy here! Choose 1 and give it a go. From Lent and Voigt's Disciplinary Literacy in Action

Before, During, After Reading AND Reciprocal Teaching

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From Lent and Voigt's Disciplinary Literacy in Action. Attending to reading before, during, and after to see gains in understanding. Then, EMPOWER your students in Reciprocal Teaching for deep understanding and increased engagement.

Anticipation Guide

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Get kids thinking about what's important in a text before they dive in. Tie it to big ideas that matter to them, even better!

Likert Scale

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Help students extend meaning after they've read a rich text.

It Says - I Say - And So

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Create opportunities for students to select important quotes or paraphrases. Hold them accountable for giving an interpretation and expressing their significance.

Differentiation Real Talk

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Dr. Shanahan helps break down some options on when to best use the small group and whole class instruction when working with reading.

Middle School Interventions

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Using MAP data, this is another way to think about your students as you consider differentiated practices. What's good for some is good for all.

Notebook LM

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Launch your content in creative ways! This is a way to "read aloud" and give your voice a break while scaffolding challenging material for your students. I can't wait to demo it!

Word Detectives - Teacher Edition

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Word Detectives - Student Edition

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Reflective Writing Exemplars

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Some helpful sentence stems

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Rubric for Disciplinary Literacy

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Close Reading

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I reviewed this content after school with MS Learning Leaders.

7 minute video on close reading

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7 minutes on close reading from EL Education. A great watch.

When Kids Can't Read - What Teachers Can Do

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Kylene Beers' text

Getting Started with Notebook LM

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Quick video to get started.