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November 2008:
- Announcements, notes, and changes to curriculum
December 2008:
- Agenda for Dec 9-10 Professional Development
- Notes & Recommendations following Dec 9-10 PD
- Text Structure PowerPoint
- Passages - Expository, Persuasive, & Technical
- Good Reading on the Web - Links to variety of sites to find engaging articles for teens
- Kansas Reading Standards Chart (one-page, condensed)
- High School Flip Chart - Kansas Reading Standards
- Question Stems for tested reading indicators
- Gradual Release of Responsibility Chart
January 2009:
- Text Structure Overview -Lesson Plan for two-week text structure unit for 10th & 11th grade English
- Pre-test and Key to Pre-test for 2 week Text Structure Unit
- PowerPoint for Week 1 -Targeting Text Structure to Improve Reading: (Allow extra time for download). Teaching notes are provided in the "Notes" section of each PPT slide.
- Click here to download a six-slide-per-page version (without notes). This will provide a shorter copy for teachers to print.
- Click here to download a PDF version (without notes). You should not need this unless you are unable to open the PPT.
- Handouts to print for Week 1
- Click here to download graphic organizers to copy for students.
- Click here to download student and teacher copies of text structure activities and articles.
- PowerPoint for Week 2-Targeting Text Structure to Improve Reading: (Allow extra time for download). Teaching notes are provided in the "Notes" section of each PPT slide.
- Passages for Week 2 (by text structure)
- Handout for Week 2: Text Structure Frames
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- Jan 15-16 Curriculum Development
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- Agenda (revised)
- Curriculum Unit Development Protocol
- Fry Readability Tool
- Reading Standards Sort Activity
- Lesson Plan Website - readwritethink.org
- Scholastic Classroom Magazines HS
- KSDE Learning Station Test Builder
- KanEd Web Desktop
- Instructional Guides - Note: These are all book-length documents and will take a few minutes to download.
Sort Activities
- Figurative Language Definitions Sort - Cut these examples of figurative language and their definitions into strips. Make enough for 4-5 groups. Arrange students into small groups to sort and discuss.
- Figurative Language Meanings Sort - Cut these examples of figurative language and their literal meanings into strips. Make enough for 4-5 groups. Arrange students in small groups to sort and discuss.
- Text Structure Sort - Cut-apart these paragraphs and ask students to use signal words and phrases to identify the main text structure of each paragraph.
- Reading Standards Sort - Have students sort these reading terms into their appropriate categories of assessed reading indicators.
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- Jan 15-16 Curriculum Development
February 2009
Collaborative Test Prep Units - developed by GCHS LA Teachers
- Expository & Technical Units - Main Idea, Inferences, Summarizing
- Pre-Test and Key to Pre-Test (for both 10th & 11th)
- Post-Test and Key to Post-Test (for both 10th & 11th)
- 10th Lesson Plan & Handouts (VanTreese, Johnson)
- 10th PowerPoint (VanTreese, Johnson)
- 10th Lesson Plan & Handouts (Hurd, Witt)
- 10th PowerPoint (Hurd, Witt)
- Narrative Units - plot, subplot/parallel epd., character, setting
- Pre-Test and Key to Pre-Test (for both 10th & 11th)
- Post-Test and Key to Post-Test (for both 10th & 11th)
- 10th Lesson Plan (Regier, Farrell, Sandiego)
- 10th PowerPoint and Handouts (Regier, Farrell, Sandiego)
- 11th Lesson Plan and Hero Log (Upton, Dugaard, Terpstra)
- 11th Narrative Handouts and extra Expository Handouts for extending the narrative lessons into a unit on heroes (Upton, Dugaard, Terpstra)
- Persuasive Units - persuasive techniques, author's purpose, fact/opinion/bias, text features
- Pre-Test and Key to Pre-Test (for both 10th & 11th)
- Post-Test and Key to Post-Test (for both 10th & 11th)
- 10th Lesson Plan and Handouts (Edwards, Byrne, Long)
- 10th PowerPoint (Edwards, Byrne, Long)
- 11th Lesson Plan and Handouts (Shull, Kelly)
- 11th PowerPoint (Shull, Kelly, Hurd) *See note in Lesson Plan.