Literacy+Action+Plan

Action Plans

Goal #1 – Reading and Writing to Learn


 * 1) Create Resource Packet (Binder and wiki resource)
 * Each Skill addressed (6 skills)
 * Resources
 * Explanations of the skills
 * Research to back things up
 * Basic literacy information (article links)
 * Accountability sheets
 * Assign team members to each skill to present to faculty at a later date
 * Set faculty goals to implement in the classroom
 * Focus on Cornell Notetaking
 * Year 2 – add podcasts, tutorials, additional resources to the wiki

Goal #2 – Writing Weekly


 * 1) Resource folders – for all students in every class
 * Rubrics, editing marks, citing resources etc.
 * Public displays of student work focuses on continuity and participation
 * Writing for the mile-a-minute reading program
 * All teachers use open-ended questions each week
 * 1) Bellringers, exit slips, entrance slips, open-ended test questions
 * 2) At least one paragraph (8 sentences)

Goal #3 – Conducting Research Goal #4 – Rigor
 * 1) Citing sources
 * All teachers require the same procedures
 * These will be in student resource folders
 * Common scoring rubric
 * Research across the curriculum
 * Resource of idea book in the media center, workroom and on the wiki
 * 1) More opportunities that require students to analyze and discuss what they read
 * Blogs, wikis, forums
 * Using word processing
 * Podcasting – character sketches instead of book reports
 * fakebook

Goal 5# - Reading 25 books
 * 1) Summer reading list
 * Have three choices available
 * Grant money for purchases for those who can’t afford
 * Teachers have lessons plans set up for these books when school begins
 * Mile-a-minute
 * Large map of world in cafeteria to show push pin locations
 * Large poster for “passport” stamps (art department)
 * SEEDS grant for materials
 * Nook for winner
 * smaller prizer
 * acclaim for students meeting certain log goals
 * art from art department (passports)

i. Ex. math – Rome – finding triangles in architecture i. Ex. math – Tesseract
 * 1) Path of locations throughout the school for visitors to follow our progression
 * 2) Accountability – have students write a brief summary of what they read and turn it in during homeroom
 * 3) Log sheets run through homeroom
 * 4) Wiki with google earth links and pushpins of areas
 * 1) Reading goal for middle school 12 books per student
 * 2) The majority covered in language classes
 * 3) Each other curricular area chooses a book to either assign or read-a-loud to students during the year