Michigan Learning Channel Update

Thank you for your interest in learning about the work of the Literacy Essentials and MAISA's partnership with Michigan Learning Channel. This work helps to bring the Literacy Essentials to life through the literacy broadcast series, Read, Write, ROAR!

Read more about the Literacy Essentials here!

If you have any questions about this content, please contact Annie Spear, MAISA Project Director, Michigan Learning Channel (aspear@gomaisa.org).

Last week presented the opportunity and privilege to be with educators and children through an invitation from Marquette-Alger RESA’s Early Literacy Coach, Chandra Ziegler and WNMU’s Michigan Learning Channel Engagement Coordinator, Conor McCoy. We screened “Building the Reading Brain” - the WKAR at Michigan State University Emmy award-winning documentary. Following the film, we had rich conversations about how elementary educators can support literacy development beyond the first five years of a child’s life in their classrooms and in collaboration with families. It’s so exciting that the partnership between Michigan Association of Intermediate School Administrators (MAISA) and Michigan Learning Channel enables this type of outreach connecting #MichiganLiteracy Essentials to teaching and learning. Thank you, Chandra and Conor, for the opportunity and Julie Anderson, Nicole Sheltrow, and the Grade 3-5 educators from Gilbert Elementary School who welcomed us for this experience!

The Literacy Essentials are now represented in Read, Write, ROAR! Upper Elementary (Grades 4-5). As part of this partnership with Detroit PBS, MAISA has been involved in the teacher onboarding training, planning, scripting, editing, and review process of these new resources. New episodes are premiering most Mondays throughout the school year at noon, with replays on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Ways to watch:

• Check your local listings here, Watch it Live!, revisit Episodes Online and, check out YouTube MLC Channel, too.

Connect on social media:

• MLC: Facebook - Twitter - Instagram
  
• Literacy Essentials (MAISA): @MAISA_ISDs & #MichiganLiteracy
  

The newly-released Lesson Plan Guides for the Grades K to 3 Read, Write, ROAR! series were designed during the filming phase (2021-2022) and utilized by the coaches and teachers from the K to 3 series to scope and guide the work. MAISA contracted support to get the Lesson Plan Guides aligned across the grade levels and reviewed/revised across for full alignment and accuracy. Our Lesson Plan Guides linked to Read, Write, ROAR! episodes can help save the day! This one page document, holds links for 16 (!) different Lesson Plan Guide documents!

Read on to find out how you can use these Lesson Plan Guides to support read aloud connected to grade level content.

Read, Write, ROAR! Read Aloud lessons were created with connection to the following Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy:

• Prekindergarten Essential 2, 3, and 7
  
• Grades K to 3: Essentials 2 & 7
  

The booklist for Prekindergarten to Grade 3 is available for you! The list is organized by age/grade level and marking period. Since the Read Aloud episodes are not available in YouTube Playlists, the Lesson Plan Guides can help you to make a "text set" for your classroom use or to send home for families to use!

On behalf of the Early Literacy Media Campaign Steering Committee, MAISA members Kyle Gnagey and Annie Spear are seeking your help to share this survey with parents and guardians of children ages 0-10. We hope to gather wide representation across our Great State! Thank you for the help!

To help you share the survey with your contacts and constituents, a toolkit has been developed to walk you through the survey distribution process. The toolkit includes step-by-step instructions, suggestions on how to share the survey, and examples of social media posts and emails that can simply be copied and pasted into your communication platforms. Additionally, a video was created to provide a quick overview of the toolkit itself. Note - the survey and all promotional materials in the toolkit are offered in three languages - Arabic, English and Spanish.

Survey Links:

English language link: https://lnkd.in/gTUsTThW

Arabic language link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MILearningSurvey?lang=ar

Spanish language link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MILearningSurvey?lang=es

Are you a Michigan parent or guardian? Interested in winning a $25 gift card? Simply fill out this short survey about literacy skills and programs! You must be a parent/guardian of a child ages 0-10 to participate. The survey is being administered as part of a statewide early literacy media campaign funded by 35i funds through the Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential.

Course 1: K to 3 Literacy Essentials: Read, Write, ROAR! - Word Builders 1, Version 2.

Version 2 of the course represents new content, updated resources, and new videos connected to the updated Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy: Grades K to 3, .

Description: In the course, Mystery Words and Word Ladders are fun, interactive lessons that allow students to play with sounds by segmenting, blending, adding, substituting, and deleting sounds as they study words and discover spelling patterns. These two lessons are aligned to the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy: Grades K to 3, specifically practices 4, 5, & 6.

Course 2: K to 3 Literacy Essentials: Read, Write, ROAR! - Word Builders 2

Description: In the course, by explicitly explaining letter-sound and sound-letter relationships, you will learn how to replicate these lessons in your classroom to support phonological awareness development (particularly phonemic awareness), alphabet knowledge, and sound-spelling knowledge. The Letter Heroes lesson type in this course provides a protocol educators can use to teach children the letter name, sound, and formation of the targeted letter within the lesson. In addition, children can find the letter in the text, demonstrating the real-world application of learning. High-Frequency Words lesson types will demonstrate how educators can use research-supported practices to teach these words that are necessarily aligned to "rules" of spelling. These two lesson types are aligned to the Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy: Grades K to 3, specifically practices 4, 5, & 6.

Please reach out to Annie Spear, MAISA, Project Director, Michigan Learning Channel: aspear@gomaisa.org.

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