MLPP | Training | 4-5

4-5 Training Outlines

Module One:
Making a Difference by Making it Different

Focus Areas:
  • Middle-grade MLPP overview

  • Characteristics of literate fourth and fifth grade students

  • Characteristics of exemplary fourth and fifth grade students

  • Components of a comprehensive literacy program in middle grades

  • Introduction to student case study

Module Two:
You've Read It, Did You Get It?

Focus Areas:
  • Retelling as Assessment

  • Retelling as Instruction

  • Comprehension Strategies

  • Exploring How Text Works

Module Three:
The Great Aha!

Focus Areas:
  • ELA 2003

  • Profundity Scales (narrative and expository)

  • Developing Thematic Units

  • Assessment Rubrics, Narrative and Expository

Module Four:
Writing to Theme

Focus Areas:
  • Assessing writing anchor papers with the 6-point rubrics

  • Using rubrics to score holistically and analytically

  • Identifying attributes in writing

  • Connecting assessment to teaching points

  • Identifying writing strategies (writer's craft)

  • Previewing Writing to a Theme: Narrative and Persuasive

Module Five:
Having the "Write" Stuff

Focus Areas:
  • Writing workshop

  • Using literature to improve writing

  • Mini-lessons

  • Revising

  • Responding to writing

  • Teacher as writer

 

Module Six:

Focus Areas:

Module Seven:
Power of Words

Focus Areas:
  • Phonics

  • Spelling

  • Vocabulary (spelling/meaning connection)

 

Module Eight:
Reader in Charge

Focus Areas:
  • Assessment

  • Recording and analysis of miscues

  • Instruction guided by assessment data

Module Nine:
Paths to Literacy

Focus Areas:

  • Oral reading fluency assessments

  • Readers workshop: Independent reading, guided reading, literature circles

Module Ten:
One Size Does Not Fit All

Focus Areas:
  • Differentiated Instruction

  • Managing All Learners

  • Case Study Discussion

  • Closing

 


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