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.
The Responsive Literacy Framework offers support by highlighting promising practices, assessments and planning tools to support the diverse needs of our learners. *Under Construction* |
This page will have information for you to explore the principles of assessment and the growth and progress paradigm. |
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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We collated some generic graphic organizers and templates for the reading comprehension strategies. Please use download them and adapt them. |
Recommended Literacy Resources (Available in the DRC)
Jennifer Serravallo
Reading Strategies
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.
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Writing Strategies
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.
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Reading Conferences
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
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Understanding Texts and Readers
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.
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Teaching Writing in Small Groups
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.
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Adrienne Gear
Powerful Readers
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.
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Powerful Writing Structures
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.
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Powerful Understanding
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.
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Jan Richardson
The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading
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.
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The Next Step Forward in Word Study and Phonics
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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