Hook on Reading Literacy Initiative

Longitudinal Professional Development Plan

Year 1
2014-2015

Year 2
2015-2016

Year 3
2016-17
September
Introductions,
Reflections, & BDA


School Wide PD
Pre-tests: Content
articles with BDA
strategy, first week of
September
Words-Their-Way
Spelling Inventory

Literacy Awareness:
Where are we now?
What are our current
successes and failures?
Where do we need to
be?

Introduction to the
Hooked on Reading
Literacy Initiative in a
school wide meeting

Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Literacy is the
responsibilityy of
every teacher.

Content/Level
Breakout Sessions
How will this program
affect our content?

School Wide PD
Pre-tests: Content
articles with BDA
strategy, first week of
September



Literacy Awareness:
Where are we now?
What are our current
successes and failures?
Where do we need to
be?

Year One Reflection:
What worked?



Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
The attributes of a
good team.


Content/Level
Breakout Sessions
What are the literacy
issues in my content
area?
School Wide PD
Pre-tests: Content area
articles with BDA
strategy, first week of
September



Literacy Awareness:
Where are we now?
What are our current
successes and failures?
Where do we need to
be?

Year Two Reflection:
What worked?



Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Having Fierce
Conversations


Content/Level
Breakout Sessions
Word Walls: What do
they look like in my
content area.

October
Words-Their-Way &
Spelling Stages



Quarter 1 Literacy
Event


Books & Bagels @ Barnes
and Noble-
Administration, Faculty,
Parents, and Students

Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
An overview of the
Words Their Way
Program.
Books & Bagels @ Barnes
and Noble-
Administration, Faculty,
Parents, and Students

Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Examples from some of
the stages of Words
Their Way.
Books & Bagels @ Barnes
and Noble-
Administration, Faculty,
Parents, and Students

Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
More examples of
students writing at a
certain stage for Words





Content / Level
Breakout Sessions:
Individual departments
will look at the spelling
inventory results of
their students and work
on designing instruction
that matches the stage.





Content / Level
Breakout Sessions:
Individual departments
will look at the spelling
inventory results of
their students and work
on designing instruction
that matches the stage.
Departments will also
reflect on whether or
not gains have been
made from previous
year.
Their Way.


Content / Level
Breakout Sessions:
Individual departments
will look at the spelling
inventory results of
their students and work
on designing instruction
that matches the stage.
Departments will also
reflect on whether or
not gains have been
made from previous
year.
November
Reciprocal Teaching
Approach


Mailbox Professional
Article: More Word
Sorts that Teachers
Might Want to Use in
their Class & Reciprocal
teaching explanations


Content Level Break
Out Sessions: Teachers
will discuss one lesson
that might be able to use
reciprocal teaching.
Mailbox Professional
Article: Reciprocal
teaching case studies
from our school (What
has been working in our
school)


Content Level Break
Out Sessions: Teachers
will find one other
lesson that might be
able to use reciprocal
teaching.
Mailbox Professional
Article: Reciprocal
teaching case studies.
(What has been working
in our school)


Content Level Break
Out Sessions: Teachers
will find one final lesson
that might able to use
reciprocal teaching in it.
December
Think Alouds

Quarter 2 Literacy
Event


Hooping for the Cause
Faculty/Students
Charity Basketball event
to benefit Reach Out and
Read and Toys for Tots
charity organizations

Mailbox Professional
Article: Why Think
Aloud?


Content
Level/Breakout
Sessions: One member
from each content area
should model a think
aloud for their
department.
Hooping for the Cause
Faculty/Students
Charity Basketball event
to benefit Reach Out and
Read and Toys for Tots
charity organizations

Mailbox Professional
Article: A script of what
good Think Alouds
sound like?

Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Watch video as a
department of examples
of Think Alouds
Hooping for the Cause
Faculty/Students
Charity Basketball event
to benefit Reach Out and
Read and Toys for Tots
charity organizations

Mailbox Professional
Article: Research about
the effectiveness of
Think Alouds. & A
transcript of one teacher
who had a successful
think aloud in our
school.

Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
One member from each


content area should
model a think aloud for
their department.
January
Rubric Development



School Wide PD:
Analysis of data.


Mailbox Professional
Article: Why are
Rubrics a good way to
assess students.


Content
Level/Breakout
Sessions: Each
department needs to
determine a common
rubric and common
descriptors that should
go in rubrics.


School Wide PD:
Analysis of data.


Mailbox Professional
Article: Examples of
rubrics used in our
school that are
exemplary

Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Departments will revisit
rubrics that they started
last year. Are the
rubrics still
appropriate? What
should we change?
What should we keep?
School Wide PD:
Analysis of data.


Mailbox Professional
Article: Examples of
rubrics used in our
school that are
exemplary

Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Departments will revisit
rubrics that they started
last year. Are the
rubrics still
appropriate? What
should we change?
What should we keep?
February
Nonfiction Writing,
Claim-Evidence-
Commentary & RAFT


Quarter 3 Literacy
Event



Mailbox Professional
Article: Examples of
RAFTS from different
contents & A list of
possible RAFTS for each
content that the reading
specialist brainstormed.
This final Professional
Development Article
will not be given until
after Content Breakout
Sessions to avoid
departments adopting
the brainstormed
articles.

Content
Level/Breakout
Sessions: Every content
area will come up with
one possible RAFT topic
they can have students
write in class.



Mailbox Professional
Article: Examples of
RAFTS from different
contents.












Content
Level/Breakout
Sessions: Every content
area will come up with
one more possible RAFT
topic they can have
students write in class.



Mailbox Professional
Article: Examples of
RAFTS from different
contents












Content
Level/Breakout
Sessions: Every content
area will come up with a
third and final RAFT
topic they can have
students write in class.




Legos & Letters
Luncheon- Writers
Workshop to benefit the
Any Soldier charity

Legos & Letters
Luncheon- Writers
Workshop to benefit the
Any Soldier charity

Legos & Letters
Luncheon- Writers
Workshop to benefit the
Any Soldier charity
March
Assessment & Data
Analysis



Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Key Terms of
Assessment &
Explanation of the
different types of
assessments we use in
the Hooked On Reading
Program.
Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Key Terms of
Assessment &
Explanation of the
different types of
assessments we use in
the Hooked On Reading
Program.

Also, a newsletter that
shows our assessment
thus far.
Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Key Terms of
Assessment &
Explanation of the
different types of
assessments we use in
the Hooked On Reading
Program.

Also, a newsletter that
shows our assessment
thus far.
April
Vocabulary Strategies



Quarter 4 Literacy
Event

Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Marzanos Suggestions
for Teaching Vocabulary


Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Content areas will use
Marzanos appendix and
agree on words they
think are essential for
their content.

Run for Literacy 5K to
benefit the Hooked on
Reading summer
program
Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Examples of the Frayer
Model from Our School
from Each Content Area.

Content Level /
Breakout Session:
Teachers will do a
gallery walk and look at
classroom artifacts that
show vocabulary
instruction.



Run for Literacy 5K to
benefit the Hooked on
Reading summer
program
Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
5 Other Strategies for
Teaching Vocabulary


Content/Level Breakout
Session: Teachers will
create anticipation
guides for a unit in their
content concerning
words.



Run for Literacy 5K to
benefit the Hooked on
Reading summer
program
May
Diversity


Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
An article that
introduces diversity and
why it is important in
education.

Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Every content area will
assess their assignments
Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
Lisa Delpit article

Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Every content area
continues to assess
diversity in their own
Mailbox Professional
Development Article:
A profile of our

Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Content areas will
continue to assess their
curriculum for diversity.


for diversity in such
things as story
problems, reading
selections, etc.
curriculum.
June
BDA Data Analysis



Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Each department will
analyze data that is
important to their
content.
Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Each department will
analyze data that is
important to their
content.
Content Level /
Breakout Sessions:
Each department will
analyze data that is
important to their
content.