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 * Subjects Matter-Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Literacy/Media PLT - Team Meeting Agenda ** **Green Hope High School **

**A content-area literacy course that is useful to Math, Science, Social Studies, English, and all other areas. Topics include, reading for real, how smart readers think, why textbooks are not enough, reading strategies across the curriculum, how to build a community of literate readers, inquiry units, and recommendations from literacy research. Practical classroom activities will be presented and tested that show how our students can read and succeed across the curriculum. **

Strategy assignments  o Shannon B.: Think-Alouds, Brainstorming, and Clustering o Kevin: KWL, Anticipation Guide, and Reading Aloud o Beth: Dramatic Role Play, Probable Passage, and Post-it Response Note o Kathi: Coding Text, Bookmarks, and Double-entry Journals o Diane: Sketching my way through the text, It says/I say, and Say Something o Katherine: Exit slips & Admit slips, Mapping, and Written Conversation o Nicole: Save the last word for me, RAFT, and Extended Projects o Shannon O.:Word meaning graphic organizer, Vocabulary Tree, and List-Group-Label

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The dates and chapter assignments are: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Sans Serif',Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> April 23- Chapters 1 & 2 April 30- Chapters 3 & 4 May 7 - Chapter 5 May 14- Chapters 6, 7, 8, & 9 May 21 Chapters 10, 11, 12, & 13 (on your own!)