Increase Literacy Utilizing Active Engagement

Cyndy Amrhein, Reading SpecialistBeth Cipriano, Assistant Principal

Erin O’Dore, Second Grade Teacher

Sanders Corner ElementaryLoudoun County Public Schools

To demonstrate the importance of keeping students actively engaged in their learning.

To provide ready-to-use active engagement strategies and activities in your lessons from Day 1.

Objectives

Is this how you begin your week?

“That’s me!”Getting to Know Each Other

Ron Nash

“Students thrive and grow as active learners in ways they do not when they are simply passive observers.”

“The needs of students are my priority. Engaging students in meaningful literacy learning is what I strive to achieve with each lesson I prepare.”

www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Beth-Estill

Beth Estill

SOL…AYP…AMO…Oh my!

What is Active Engagement?Why teach this way?

Paired Verbal Fluency

Using Music

Let’s Move…

Hand Up, Stand Up, Pair Up

Square Up

Other uses for music

Erin’s playlist

Oxygen to the brain.Administration Look for…

Feathered Friends Clock Buddies Famous Pairs

Learning PartnerGrouping Ideas

Turn and Talk

“Talk is the bridge that helps us make connections between what we know and what we are coming to know.”

~ Booth, 1994

“Body Sort”

• True/False

• Fiction/Non-fiction

• Yes/No

• Problem/Solution

• Fantasy/Real

“Show Me Pocket”

First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg

Read Aloud Lesson

Fan-n-Pick Gallery Walk

Closing remarks

Greater Washington Reading Council Annual Conference

December 3, 2013

Exit Ticket – Knew/New