Secondary Literacy Guide

Secondary Literacy Best Practices

Name

Definition

Student Moves

Data Based Instruction

Teacher uses reliable screening assessment to identify students with reading difficulties and follow up with formal and informal assessments to pinpoint each student’s instructional needs.

Students engage in assessment to identify instructional needs.

Engage in learning routines, structures, and lessons of targeted interventions. Students should engage positively in intervention in specialized groupings to maximize their learning.

Teacher us reliable screening assessments to identify students with reading difficulties and follow up with formal and informal assessments to pinpoint each student’s instructional needs. Provide interventions where intensiveness matches student needs: the greater the instructional need, the more intensive the intervention. Assuming a high level of instructional quality, the intensity of interventions is related most directly to the size of instructional groups and amount of instructional time. Teachers implement interventions with fidelity. This means implementations and adherence to both the proper execution of the specific practices and the effective coordination of all the practices as they are intended to be combined. Teachers build classroom conditions to promote higher reading engagement and conceptual learning through such strategies as goal setting, self-directed learning, and collaborative learning. - Text should be read critically in digestible chunks, with tasks that make reading visible and support student comprehension and application of the texts, such as repeated reading from varying purposes and skills. - Annotation, discussion, and other active strategies should be employed. - Teachers should avoid reading strategies that do not hold students accountable or make learning visible, e.g. SSR, popcorn reading, and actively listening to text being read to students. Teachers plan to use text actively.

Individualized Intervention for Struggling Readers

Students should engage in intervention in the manner in which they were designed.

Fidelity of Implementation

Students should engage positively in activities, goal setting, self-directed, and collaborative learning.

Increase Student

Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning

Students should actively read the text.

Use of Text

- Annotation - Close Reading - Discussion - Re-engage with the text