Padlet
- Click on the Padlet link: http://padlet.com/DPLiteracy/QuestionWall
- Please type any questions you have throughout the session on the Virtual Wall
Plickers - Assessment FOR Learning
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that allows teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices
Plickers Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bejiz2HzUz8
13 Ways Education Could Change In The Next 13 Years
“As society evolves at a more rapid pace than ever, literacy is changing, and schools must respond in kind—with literacy not as a goal, but its sole purpose.”
http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/13-likely-realities-the-future-learning/
OSSLT Curriculum Connections
The charts in this document clearly link the reading and writing knowledge and skills tested on the OSSLT to some of the overall and specific expectations in the Grades 7, 8 and 9 Ontario Curriculum documents produced between 1999 and 2010. The expectations listed are only a sample of how curriculum expectations relate to the OSSLT.
http://www.eqao.com/en/assessments/OSSLT/assessment-docs/curriculum-connections-osslt.pdf
EQAO - Grade 10 OSSLT Booklet 1
EQAO - Grade 10 OSSLT Booklet 2
Adolescent Literacy Guide
Protocols for Discussion
EDUGAINS - Think Literacy
The THINK LITERACY resources contain subject-specific strategies to support reading and writing. This resource supports literacy 7 - 12.
http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/literacy/classroomlearning7_12/classroomlearning7_12.html
THINK LITERACY: READING STRATEGIES
As students progress through school, they are asked to read increasingly complex informational and graphical texts in their courses. The ability to understand and use the information in these texts is key to a student’s success in learning. Successful students have a repertoire of strategies to draw upon, and know how to use them in different contexts. Struggling students need explicit teaching of these strategies to become better readers.
https://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/studentsuccess/thinkliteracy/files/Reading.pdf
Newsela
Newsela Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnf0sZzdKsk
Read Write Rock
Read Write Rock is a writing and reading educational game which supports the skills students need to be successful on the OSSLT.
This game was developed by English teachers at Westmount Secondary School in Hamilton as part of the Ministry of Education’s Teacher Learning and Leadership Program. (TLLP)
Text Organizational Patterns
Online quiz to practice organizational patterns:
http://www.ereadingworksheets.com/text-structure-worksheets/text-structure-practice-1.htm
Holt Graphic Orgnizers
Students click on a graphic organizer to download a PDF of it. Once they have downloaded an organizer, students can type in their comments and print it out. Each graphic organizer includes Teaching Notes with lessons and tips on how to use graphic organizers in the classroom
Quizlet
Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. It was created by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland in 2005 and now contains over 40 million study sets. All of the material is user-generated.
Accountable Talk: Edugains
- Promotes critical thinking
- Increases participation
- Promotes student centered instruction
Accountable Talk help students to frame and focus their thinking and become more comfortable sharing their ideas. The safer students feel, the more likely they are to take risks.
http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/literacy/adolescent/strategy.html
Edugains: Think Aloud
With the Think Aloud strategy, teachers verbalize aloud while reading a selection orally. Their verbalizations include describing things they're doing as they read to monitor comprehension. The purpose of the Think Aloud strategy is to model for students how skilled readers construct meaning from text.
Use Think Aloud to Teach the Main Idea and Supporting Details
Mindomo
Mindomo allows you to create the best looking mind maps online. It's an excellent digital tool to enjoy brainstorming and collaborating with others.
After Reading: Question-Answer Relationships
"The question–answer relationship (QAR) strategy helps students understand the different types of questions. By learning that the answers to some questions are "Right There" in the text, that some answers require a reader to "Think and Search," and that some answers can only be answered "On My Own," students recognize that they must first consider the question before developing an answer." - Reading Rockets
Kahoot - Assessment FOR Learning
A Kahoot is a collection of questions on specific topics. Created by teachers, students, business-people and social users, they are asked in real-time, to an unlimited number of “players”, creating a social, fun and game-like learning environment.
Set up your account here: https://getkahoot.com/
Kahoot Tutorial Session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFFv6_6was4
http://blog.getkahoot.com/post/66973663345/case-study-implementing-the-kahoot-pedagogy-at
Better Learning Through Structured Teaching
Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
Scaffolded instruction, or the gradual release model, is broadly recognized as a successful approach for moving classroom instruction from teacher-centered, wholegroup delivery to student-centered collaboration and independent practice.
Gradual Release of Responsibility and Bloom's Taxonomy
Edugains Alert: Thinking Metacognitively
Edugains: Resources on Metacognition
Exploring Metacognitive Habits of Mind
Metacognitive Reading Awareness Surveys
EXIT TICKET: SOCRATIVE
Go to this link for the EXIT TICKET: https://b.socrative.com
Enter Room 721769
Set up your teacher account here: http://socrative.com/
Socrative Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK8CV_MKlis