Waiver Day – 11.08.11Sherry Birchem

Word Up!“To put it simply: students

encounter unfamiliar words in their reading; they use

context clues and morphology to try to

deduce meaning; they consult references to verify meaning, and eventually —

if the stars align — they end up using those words in a

meaningful way.”

Agenda

Reasoning skills Common Core Standards Instructional Strategies Time to share - Strategies

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1995/1/95.01.05.x.html

Why Reasoning Skills? The ability to learn new words via reasoning

skills is one of the key components of the English Common Core.

Movement in schools that places major emphasis on higher order skills – 21st Century Skills ~ Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity and innovation. These skills encourage the ability to reason.

Challenge ~ Preparing young learners for their future requires that teachers employ a great deal of inventiveness and creativity in designing lessons that meet the dual challenge of providing the basics (as in reading, language arts, and mathematics), and developing the ability to reason.

Common Core StandardsCommon Core State Standards – “They must also have extensive vocabularies, built

through reading and study, enabling them to comprehend complex texts and engage in purposeful writing about and conversations around content.

They need to become skilled in determining or clarifying the meaning of words and phrases they encounter, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies to aid them.

They must learn to see an individual word as part of a network of other words—words, for example, that have similar denotations but different connotations.

The inclusion of Language standards in their own strand should not be taken as an indication that skills related to conventions, effective language use, and vocabulary are unimportant to reading, writing, speaking, and listening; indeed, they are inseparable from such contexts.”

CNN Study: Schoolyard bullies not just preying on the weak

Instead, the research shows that many students are involved in "social combat" -- a constant verbal, physical and cyber fight to the top of the school social hierarchy.

By: Chuck HadadCNN.comOctober 10, 2011

What words might you expect to

find in this article?

Word Clouds

Skin Deep by Angela Shelf Medearis

I wish my skin cameequipped with a zipper

right in the center of my belly button.Then,

when I see fear creep into your eyesand your mind fill up with

all those things your momma told youand the newspaper told you

and you saw on the TV or heard on the radio

about BLACK peopleZippppp

I could slip out of my skin.I’d look just like those pictures in an

anatomy book, Red and blue veins everywhere.Just another naked human being,

No different than you.

Kick Me

Discussion: Why is setting a time limit essential to

this activity? How can this activity be used as both a

pre-teaching and review activity? What are the learning benefits of

allowing students to be mobile?

Works Cited http://www.corestandards.org/ - Common Core Standards http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordshop/2461/ - Quote on slide 1 www.teachingchannel.org – Word Clouds and Kick Me video http://www.pluggedintononfiction.com/professional-development/free-

webinars/ - Free Webinars from Janet Allen

Websites to check out… www.wordle.net – Create Word Clouds http://www.teachingchannel.org/ - Quick videos on instructional

strategies – GREAT SITE! http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ - Free vocabulary games