Year 1: 2014-2014

Year 2: 2015-2016

Year 3: 2016-2017

General Year
overviews:

Vocabulary and word

study and talking to
the text with Think
Alouds Visual and
Oral Learning

Questioning and
writing using
conversation round
table: Oral and
Spatial Learning

Note taking/ Building

Technology Literacy
with Writing: Visual,
Spatial, and
Kinesthetic Learning

September:

Whole Staff Discussion

Topic: Giving Voice to
Students use article for
discussion: Giving
Students a Voice in the
Classroom, and
practice annotation for
important ideas
What are students
interests? Developing a
inventory list of
interests for new group
of students and sharing
of teachers from
previous grades as what
worked and what
didnt.
Breakout session by
grade level and
planning topics:
Introduction with
academic vocabulary
and goals for students
to use them in readings
selections, writing
selections, and speaking
selections. Introduction
to various methods for
Word study and what
the best practices are
for break out for grade
levels.

Whole Staff Discussion

Topic: Giving Voice to
Students use article
The Backchannel: Giving
Every Student a Voice in
the Blended Mobile
Classroom, and looking
at oral ways for
communication to
enhance reading share
outs and book talks

Whole Staff Discussion

Topic: Giving Voice to
Students use article

@Barnes and Noble

Modeling Good
Reading Habits and
Teacher Read Alouds :
Help support teachers
in the class by adding

@Barnes and Noble

Modeling Good
Reading Habits and
Teacher Read Alouds :
Help support teachers
in the class by adding

Introductions,
Reflections, and Preassessments

October:
Quarter 1 Literacy
Event

What are students

interests? Developing a
inventory list of
interests for new group
of students and sharing
of teachers from
previous grades as what
worked and what
didnt.
Breakout session by
grade level and
planning topics:
Introduction with
talking to the text,
questioning and
Conversation Round
Table and what the best
practices are for break
out for grade levels.

Giving Every Student

a Voice Through
Online Discussion
and looking at using
blogs and website
interactions as
channel for
communication

What are students

interests? Developing a
inventory list of
interests for new group
of students and sharing
of teachers from
previous grades as what
worked and what
didnt.
Breakout session by
grade level and
planning topics:
Introduction with note
taking, website design,
and blogs, what the
best practices are for
break out for grade
levels.

@Barnes and Noble

Modeling Good
Reading Habits and
Teacher Read Alouds :
Help support teachers
in the class by adding

to their swag bag for

your children and by
listening to them read
their favorite spooky
stories.
Break Out sessions:
How can we use
annotation to help
improve vocabulary
and words study?
Review article: Effects
of multimedia
vocabulary annotations
and learning styles on
vocabulary learning

November

Break Out sessions:

Using Double Journal
entries with vocabulary
enrichment.
Article: Teaching

to their swag bag for

your children and by
listening to them read
their favorite spooky
stories.
Break Out sessions:
Thin and Thick
Questioning and how
to use it in your subject
areas.
Article: Assessing

to their swag bag for

your children and by
listening to them read
their favorite spooky
stories.
Break Out sessions and
Article : What type of
note taking is useful for
prewriting and for
comprehension of text?

Comprehension: A
ClassroomBased
Process
Break Out sessions:
Questioning to have
inquiry.
Read John Dewy
Inquiry Theory article.

Break Out sessions and

Article: Looking at
Cornell notes and note
cards for inquiry
research.

content reading and

writing

December:
Quarter 2 Literacy
Event

Poetry Jam/Grant a
Wish Book Drive: Join
us for teachers and
students as they
compete in a poetry
slam. Participant will
donate books for local
children who want to
read! Working together
to help others was
never this fun or felt so
good!
Break Out sessions:
Looking at talking to
the text by asking
vocabulary questions
and context clues.

Poetry Jam/Grant a
Wish Book Drive: Join
us for teachers and
students as they
compete in a poetry
slam. Participant will
donate books for local
children who want to
read! Working together
to help others was
never this fun or felt so
good!
Break Out sessions:
Using Inquiry for
conversation
roundtable.

Poetry Jam/Grant a
Wish Book Drive: Join
us for teachers and
students as they
compete in a poetry
slam. Participant will
donate books for local
children who want to
read! Working together
to help others was
never this fun or felt so
good!
Break Out sessions:
Using vocabulary,
questioning, and key
details for
comprehension writing
and class discussion.

January

Break Out sessions:

Using vocabulary in
writing word choices
with annotation in text
and writing workshop.

Break Out sessions:

Thinking Critically and
giving students agency
article. How do we use
interviewing in our

Break Out sessions:

Creating websites for
students to voice
opinions and host their
inquiry learning using

inquiry?

wiki pages, weebly, and

google webpages.
Article: Hosting and
posting appropriate
media in forms of
facebook, twitter, you
tube, and google videos
and pictures.

February

Break Out sessions:

Looking at visualization
and synonym trains
and word walls with
pictures.

Break Out sessions and

Article: Using
Questioning Cards for
Clarification and
Questioning for
Validation.

Break Out sessions and

Article: Using
technology software
and Microsoft to help
support writing in the
classroom.

March : Quarter 3
Literacy Event

Support Literacy with a

Slam dunk: Create your
basketball team and
challenge the teachers
at your school to read
what interest you.
Students participate in
a reading survey to
bring your interests
into the classroom and
have teachers adopt
your favorite book into
their teaching. Cast you
ballot and watch the bball game as teacher
and students get
geared up to play and
read together!
Break Out sessions:
Word study with
organization of words.

Support Literacy with a

Slam dunk: Create your
basketball team and
challenge the teachers
at your school to read
what interest you.
Students participate in
a reading survey to
bring your interests
into the classroom and
have teachers adopt
your favorite book into
their teaching. Cast you
ballot and watch the bball game as teacher
and students get
geared up to play and
read together!
Break Out sessions:
Writing personal
narrative inquiry with
This I believe Forum.

Support Literacy with a

Slam dunk: Create your
basketball team and
challenge the teachers
at your school to read
what interest you.
Students participate in
a reading survey to
bring your interests
into the classroom and
have teachers adopt
your favorite book into
their teaching. Cast you
ballot and watch the bball game as teacher
and students get
geared up to play and
read together!
Break Out sessions:
Keyboarding help for
students in practice
with writing. Help for
alleviating frustrations
for students and
technology.

April

Break Out sessions:

Working with prefix
families and annotation
in texts.

Break Out sessions: The

great Debate
questions, talking
about multiple
perspectives and
thinking critically at all

Break Out sessions:

Host a technology
forum for creating a
class blog for students,
parents, teachers, and
community interaction.

information presented
before making the best
decision.

Each grade level will

create a website for
literacy posting writing,
videos from class and
pictures displaying
inquiry work for the
previous unit.

May

Break Out sessions:

Break Out sessions:
Working with suffixes
Speech writing for topic
families and annotation of Inquiry.
in texts

Break Out sessions:

Using media and
technology to advance
students learning and
understanding across
the curriculum. Article:
How can we
collaborate together
using technology?

June: Quarter 4
Literacy Event

Summer Reading
initiative at Harold
Washington Library
and sign up for a library
card and creating a
Good reads initiative
and Facebook reading
page for the school.
Sign up and share what
your reading using
multimedia and review
5 books over the
summer!

Summer Reading
initiative at Harold
Washington Library
and sign up for a library
card and creating a
Good reads initiative
and Facebook reading
page for the school.
Sign up and share what
your reading using
multimedia and review
5 books over the
summer!

Summer Reading
initiative at Harold
Washington Library
and sign up for a library
card and creating a
Good reads initiative
and Facebook reading
page for the school.
Sign up and share what
your reading using
multimedia and review
5 books over the
summer!

Content Level Breakout

Sessions:
Each Department will
reflect and identify
what worked with
learning new
vocabulary, word study,
language, and talking to
the text with double
journal entries, what
didnt work ,and what
may be needed to
improve for next year.

Content Level Breakout

Sessions:
Each Department will
reflect and identify
what worked and what
didnt and what may be
need to improve for
next year for pros and
cons of questioning.

Content Level Breakout

Sessions:
Each Department will
reflect and identify
what worked and what
didnt and what may be
need to improve for
next year in terms of
using note taking to
help with writing and
displaying different
forms of
communication with
media and website
creation.