Welcome

The Eastview Building Literacy Committee (BLC) would like to welcome you to our new webpage. This webpage includes links to goals, presentations, and upcoming CEU events.

Book Club Selections

To: Staff Book Club

When: Various Fridays over your lunch throughout the year

Where: Bring your lunch to C234 (except Q4—location TBD)







Why?: Come talk about some hot reads with colleagues in the building. Book discussions led by members of the Building Literacy Committee.







Upcoming Book Discussions:



Thursday, March 31st

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt







Barnes and Noble Synopsis







In Teacher Man Frank turns his attention to the subject that he most often talks about in his lectures-teaching: why it's so important, why it's so undervalued. He describes his own coming of age-as a teacher, a storyteller, and, ultimately, a writer. He is alternately humble and mischievous, downtrodden and rebellious. He instinctively identifies with the underdog; his sympathies lie more with students than administrators. It takes him almost fifteen years to find his voice in the classroom, but what's clear in the thrilling pages of Teacher Man is that from the beginning he seizes and holds his students' attention by telling them memorable stories.







Friday, May 20



TBD—One of the Newest New York Times Bestsellers





Monday, August 9, 2010

Monday, May 3, 2010

PHAT Monday Invigorating Your Vocab Instruction

Here is the PowerPoint from May 3rd, PHAT Monday presentation on vocabulary instruction.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

EVHS Staff Literacy Bookmarks

Anticipation Guide:
What is it?
This is a great pre-reading strategy for teachers to use when trying activate students' background knowledge on a topic or as a technique for assessing what students think or feel about a topic.

What does it look like?
It is most often a series of statements to which students can agree or disagree. These statements represent the "big ideas" or essential questions of a unit or text. Teachers might also ask students to mark their level of agreement or disagreement on a continuum.

Freedom is more important than safety. (Agree or Disagree)
Our current government has a sufficient amount of power over the people of our nation. (Agree or Disagree)
The world is changing and we need to change with it in order to keep up. (Agree or Disagree)

Three Word Summary:
What is it?
The Three Word Summary is a during-reading strategy that helps students to be aware of the meaning of the text and to keep track of the information in the passage. If a text is technical, at a difficult reading level, or just plain boring, it can be difficult for students to hold on to the meaning of one paragraph as he/she tries to read the next. By chunking the text and jotting down a three word summary, students are better able to retain the information as they continue to reading the passage.

What does it look like?
1. Identify the main subject of the paragraph.
2. Jot a 3-word phrase in the margin of the text next to the paragraph. (Summaries are often noun-verb-object/adjective)
Example: text summarized briefly
3. Use the summaries to track the logic/organization or to find answers in the text.

Quiz-Quiz-Trade
What is it?
This can be a pre-reading or post-reading strategy. The benefits of this strategy are that every student is actively involved in speaking and listening and it is an opportunity for students to be out of their desks interacting with classmates.

What does it look like?
All students are given a card or slip of paper with a question (or vocabulary word or quote from a text) on one side and the answer (or definition or nothing) on the other side. All students stand up and pair up. One student reads the question to the other student. The other student answers while his/her partner writes the answer or response on the back of the card OR confirms the answer is correct. The students switch roles. When both questions have been given, the students trade questions. They look around for a new partner and repeat the process.
(description adapted from http://www.proteacher.net/)

Monday, March 8, 2010

Rescue from LLN

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Inquiry Circles Phat Monday

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Motivation Engagement Of Striving Readers

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