Comprehensive K-8 Literacy Model

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Teaching students to read and write is the primary goal for K-8 teachers and staff of the Newberg School District.  The ability to read and write in elementary and middle school not only prepares students to be successful throughout the rest of their educational career, but also helps them develop as responsible citizens in society.

Definitions
The Newberg School District Literacy Guidelines is a living document that will help guide staff as they consider current teaching practices and curriculum, student performance data and goals, professional development and the needs and expectations of the school and community. These guidelines reflect current research and best practices for teaching literacy.   It is essential that all school leaders and teachers, at all levels, in all content areas utilize this model as a foundation for instruction.

Planning: carefully determining the educational purpose, the approaches, and the resources to be used in focused instruction, interventions, and assessments.

Instruction: providing a variety of approaches and strategies in order for learning and understanding to occur.

Intervention: a systematic, focused, and differentiated approach for providing additional and graduated instruction for students who demonstrate academic performance greatly above or below the expected level of achievement.

Assessment: formally and informally collecting evidence of learning to be used in evaluation.

Evaluation: thoughtfully judging the evidence gathered from assessments for the purpose of making decisions regarding planning and instruction.
 

 

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Authentic Reading is reading a variety of text for real purposes. Authentic reading is most like that which occurs in everyday life.

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Critical Thinking: making judgments that are thoughtful and well-founded. It is more than opinion; critical thinking is evaluating text and constructing meaning from it. 

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Explicit and Purposeful Instruction is a practice in which the teacher deliberately explains and demonstrates the invisible processes, knowledge and skills used in effective readin

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Guided Reading and Writing are instructional practices in which teachers can re-teach or reinforce a specific skill or strategy with a group of students who have similar needs.

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Intentional Independent Reading provides regular opportunities for students to apply strategies that the teacher has taught during previous instruction.

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Global economies, new technologies, and easy access to vast amounts of information are transforming our society.  As educators, we need to prepare students for this world with problem-solving,

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Modeled Reading is an instructional practice in which the teacher models, verbally, to the students a reading process or strategy.
Modeled Reading includes:

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Purposeful Speaking and Listening is the foundation of reading and writing development in which students, formally and informally, comprehend, express, and exchange ideas for

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Shared Reading is an instructional practice in which the teacher both reads the text aloud and interacts with students.
Shared Reading includes:

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Word Study is the active teaching of words and their meanings within authentic reading and writing experiences.

Word Study includes