Cooperative lesson planning- Generating Interest with your staff

How I can help- and integrate technology!

At a staff meeting I would say I am interested in supporting teachers and working with students to improve information literacy.

I would say if you do not have a information literacy skill of choice we could start with some mini lessons on using text features gr. 1-7 using a variety of resources (print and electronic (if available) on a topic of their choice.

The primary team might pick the topic apples or community; the intermediates might pick Canada or Egypt. It doesn’t matter about the topic- the role is to support students developing information literacy and teach them how to use text features. I would show the staff the below learning outcomes and have a sign up sheet circulating.

Learning Outcomes:

Grade one: English Language Arts Curriculum

(Reading and Viewing Section)

B10            after reading and viewing, develop their understanding of the meaning conveyed in texts by

– rereading or “re-viewing” for clarification - describing their understanding of the text –  discussing their ideas with others –            using text features (e.g., diagrams, headings, bold and italicized words, diagrams, drawings, chapter titles) to locate information

Grade seven: English Language Curriculum

(Reading and viewing section)

B8            analyse how the following structures and features convey meaning:

–            literary elements (e.g., plot, tension, conflict, character, setting, climax, resolution, theme) –            literary devices (e.g., personification, imagery, irony, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, rhythm)- visual/artistic devices (e.g., space, colour, sound) –            text structure and organization (e.g., topic sentence, development of ideas with supporting details, central idea) –            text features (e.g., table of contents, headings, diagrams, sidebars, pull-quotes) –            form (e.g., sonnet, business letter, advertisement, debate) –            genre (e.g., essay, article, documentary, web page, short story, graphic novel, poem)

Learning outcomes are from the site:

http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/subject.php?lang=en&subject=Literacy_Foundations

(Please note these are Literacy Foundations English Language Arts 2010)