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Middle Years Literacy

On this Middle Years Literacy page, you will find information or links to our Responsive Literacy Framework,  the Performance Standards, graphic organizers and key resources our team recommends for your classroom.  
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Responsive Framework

SD22's Early and Middle years Responsive Literacy and Numeracy Framework is a tool intended to support teachers in approaching learning through inclusive and equitable learning environments.
*DRAFT*
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 Principles of Assessment

​This page will have information for you to explore the principles of assessment and the growth and progress paradigm.
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Performance Standards

The  Ministry of Education produced performance standards K-12 to use as a formative assessment tool.  
​**Please note, the Ministry of Education is revamping the benchmarks into proficiency standards
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Reading and Writing Graphic Organizers and Templates

We  collated some generic graphic organizers and templates for the reading comprehension strategies.  Please use download them and adapt them. 
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Workshop Model

The workshop model is an instructional model that comes in three parts: a mini-lesson, a workshop and a debrief.  The goal of the model is to support learners in reading and writing independently

Recommended Literacy Resources (Available in the DRC)

Jennifer Serravallo

Reading Strategies

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300 strategies in support of thirteen reading goals with each strategy cross-linked to skills, genres, and reading levels. Ideal for use with reading workshop, Daily 5/CAFE, guided reading, balanced reading, a core reading program, or any other approach. ​

Writing Strategies

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There are 300+ pages of one page writing strategies with instruction  ideas that could be used with students individually, in small groups, or in whole class lessons.  It's focuses on writing, but incudes strategies on how to set goals with students, and how you might use the book alongside a variety of writing instruction approaches.

Reading Conferences

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Conferring,” writes Jennifer Serravallo, “is where the magic happens.” In this primer, she reveals that this seeming magic is actually purposeful, responsive instruction. Jen presents conferences for six specific instructional situations: assessing, goal-setting, strategy lessons, and more

Understanding Texts and Readers

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Serravallo connects her comprehension goals to text levels and readers' responses. As you learn more about how comprehension works over a range of texts, you'll find text complexity simpler, clarify comprehension, and make great book matches, as you choose just-right strategies to share with readers. ​

Teaching Writing in Small Groups

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Find out how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. Jennifer Serravallo’s Teaching Writing in Small Groups details essential practices for optimizing groups that help you.  Valuing and personalizing literacy language and practice, developing relationships with your writers, teaching with efficacy and independence, plus increasing engagement. 

Adrienne Gear

Powerful Readers

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At any age or grade level, powerful readers are those who are aware of their thinking as they read. Presenting a balance of theory and practical lessons, Powerful Readers   demonstrates that instruction in the key strategies  can help students develop their reading skills. 

Powerful Writing Structures

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 Powerful Writing Structures revolves around “brain pockets” to help students become familiar with the qualities of different writing forms. From writing goals to writing joy, Powerful Writing Structures helps teachers guide students through the skills, the structures, the language, and the beauty of effective writing. 

Powerful Understanding

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Powerful Understanding explores effective ways to build social emotional skills and help students make connections, question what they read, and reflect on their learning as they develop into stronger readers and learners. ​

Jan Richardson

The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading

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The Next Step in Guided Reading helps you and your students move forward. You will find all the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent. Organized around Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework, this new resource includes 29 comprehension modules, more than 50 streaming video lessons, and dozens of downloadable.​

The Next Step Forward in Word Study and Phonics

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This book provides teachers with clear, concise, and practical instructions and resources for planning and teaching developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons. Learn how students solve words, how to assess what students know and need to learn next, and what sequence, materials, and activities to use to help students become proficient. ​

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​Learning together on the ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Nation.