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Middle Link
Vision for the Middle School High Five Program
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5 Goals
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To provide staff across the district access to five literacy strategies to use during instruction: Read Around the Text, K.I.M., Two Column Notes, Reciprocal Teaching, and Sum It Up
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To focus on key literacy strategies districtwide giving students repeated exposure and practice
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To model literacy strategies before, during, and after reading in order to improve comprehension
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To demonstrate for students how literacy strategies can be applied in science, social studies, math, and elective classes
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To unify the middle schools through strategy instruction and to give students moving from school-to-school some common ground
5 Steps of Implementation
This describes the implementation process during the 2004-2005 school year. Check here for 2005-2006 information.
- The Middle School High Five began with a staff awareness meeting (week of January 3) followed by ten weeks of strategy instruction. Each reading strategy had a 2-week time frame devoted to it. Click here for the flyer that was distributed to teachers before implementation.
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The language arts department chair distributed materials and helped explain the project at a staff awareness meeting. In addition, he/she modeled the strategies to the language arts teachers who in turn shared the information with content area team teachers. (Elective teachers are encouraged to join in on these sessions.)
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Each staff member received a layered book explaining the five strategies, blackline masters, reciprocal teaching cards, and e-mail tips for support.
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Language arts teachers were encouraged to introduce the focus strategy within their classes at the start of each 2-week time period.
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All staff was then encouraged to use the focus strategy at some point during the 2-week time frame so students could see it in action in a variety of settings.
5+ People Behind the Scenes
The following folks would be happy to come out to your schools to explain this project in more detail and to model any of the strategies:
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