SCORE6! Write to Read Institute

The ChallengeIncreasing Cross-Curricular Student AchievementA pressing question asked by educators nationwide is how to improve student achievement and academic success across the curriculum. In his landmark 90/90/90 study, Reeves (2000) found that school achievement across content and grade levels is based largely on an emphasis requiring student written responses in performance assessments, informative writing instruction, and the use of a single scoring rubric across content areas to evaluate student writing. Writing plays a two-fold purpose in the schools identified as successful in Reeves' study. First, writing helps students to "clarify their own thought processes." Second, writing provides teachers with a diagnostic assessment of student learning.

However, it is the writing/reading connection that forms the basis of cross-curricular student academic achievement and builds strong life-success skills. When reading and writing are taught together, teachers can enhance students' thinking and learning. Several key cognitive strategies underlie both the writing and reading processes and form the core of the writing/reading connection. These include: planning, questioning, prediction, synthesizing, monitoring, revising, evaluating and reflecting. (Flower and Hayes, 1981; Tierney and Pearson, 1983; Tierney and Shanahan, 1991; Pressley and Afflerbach, 1995).

The SolutionScore 6! Write to Read InstituteThe primary goal of the Score 6! Write to Read Institute is to link best practices in writing instruction with best practices in reading instruction to enhance reading programs used in a school or district's curriculum. In addition to integrating reading and writing instruction, the institute is aligned to state- and grade-specific standards and standardized literacy assessments, and prepares teachers and students to make cross-curricular and life connections with reading and writing materials to ensure the literacy achievement of all students.

Grounded in current research on student achievement, one of the objectives of the institute is to support teachers in learning how to integrate the nine instructional strategies outlined by Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock (2001) and Langer's (2002) six elements of effective literacy instruction into middle and high school language arts programs. The institute also introduces ways to incorporate writing into reading programs in order to increase the amount of writing done in school and to enhance overall achievement. The institute uses a dynamic and data-driven model of learning and curriculum mapping that replaces the often unused and dated curriculum guides residing on teachers' shelves.

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The ChallengeIncreasing cross-curricular student achievement

The SolutionScore 6! Write to Read Institute

The ResultIntegrated writing and reading instruction resulting in improved academic success

"Over the past three years Vantage Learning has worked with our schools to create a literacy plan that addresses the

specific needs of each district and school."- The MY Access! Literacy Project in Pennsylvania, Carbon

Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21, PA

Write to Read InstituteLinking Best Practices in Writing with Best Practices in Reading

SCORE6!MY Access!® Professional Services: Development & Training

Copyright © by Vantage Learning, 2006. Vantage Learning 110 Terry Drive, Suite 100, Newtown, PA 18940 Phone: 800.230.2213 Fax: 215.579.8391

About MY Access!®

MY Access!® is an award-winning, web-delivered instructional tool that diagnoses and assesses the writing ability of students in grades K-12 and at the college level. With MY Access!, students are motivated to write more and attain higher scores on writing assessments. The program's powerful scoring engine grades students' essays instantly and provides targeted feedback, freeing teachers from grading thousands of papers by hand and giving them more time to conduct differentiated instruction and curriculum planning.

Score 6! Write to Read Institute Package Description and PriceThe Score 6! Write to Read Institute package includes:

5-day on-site training, including 40 hours of intensive instructionFive-month duration/use of licenses upon completion of teacher training $15,000 total package cost, inclusive of travel and expenses, but exclusive of licensesLicenses @ $12 per license for up to 500 students for the 5-month program periodOptional additional four months of extended use by same group of students for $10 per licenseAdditional days of coaching and mentoring availableOptional training and follow-up practicum available

Contact InformationDr. Sydelle MasonDirector of Professional ServicesVantage Learning110 Terry Drive, Suite 100Newtown, PA 18940800-230-2213 x1121or 267-756-1121FAX: 215-579-8391smason@vantage.com

Create revised curriculum maps and writing/reading lessons aligned to texts adopted by their school and/or district.Develop narrative, literary, and informative custom MY Prompts tied to their reading curriculum.

Following is a typical agenda:Day 1: Overview and introduction to curriculum mapping, predicting and visualizing as reading and writing strategies.Day 2: Connecting with texts and inferring meaning as a reading/writing strategy.Day 3: Monitoring as a reading/writing strategy.Day 4: Questioning as a reading/writing strategy.Day 5: Synthesizing as a reading/writing strategy; reflection, modeling, and collaboration.

writing/reading connection and how teachers can best use their current reading program with MY Access! in order to integrate the writing/reading connection into their curriculum. Firmly rooted in scientifically-based reading and writing research, the institute provides instruction in process writing, reading strategies, the writing/reading connection, adolescent literacy, test preparation, curriculum mapping and integration. The audience includes administrators, teachers and Language Arts specialists.

This 5-day institute is comprised of 40 hours of intensive instruction, planning, and reflection, culminating in curriculum and instructional resources that participants can put into immediate practice in the classroom. Coaching/mentoring, web-delivered follow-up instruction, additional training and follow-up practicum are also available as optional add-ons to the program. Participants will:

Learn the core theories and research on the writing/reading connection.Determine writing and reading strategies that can be used with any text or writing assignment.Reflect on their curriculum plan and instructional strategies.Revise their curriculum guide to include best practices in reading and writing.Observe, create and share new model lesson plans that integrate reading and writing.

"We love working with this product

because it simultaneously addresses the

technology and literacy needs in our

classrooms."

- The MY Access! Literacy Project in Pennsylvania,

Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21, PA

Write to Read InstituteLinking Best Practices in Writing with Best Practices in Reading