has a well-developed middle school Curriculum Framework Progress Guide (CFPG) for reading. The CFPG has been aligned to State academic standards. (In 2009-2010, the middle grades Anne Goudvis, CFPG was aligned to include the Toolkit Comprehension strategies; additional work will be done this Toolkit Consultant summer to refine.) However, comprehension Joanne Durham, strategy instruction, to ensure that students use the Curriculum & thinking processes that enable them to develop Instruction; interpretive and critical stances towards reading Turnaround Literacy objectives, is not yet widespread in grades 6-8. Coach; Teaching and use of comprehension strategies has Title I Literacy been shown in the research to be effective across Coach all ages and grade levels [(Pearson and Gallagher, (1983), Pearson et. al. (1992), Pressley (1976 and 2002)]. The Comprehension Toolkit provides teaching moves and language as tools for teachers to teach students to apply these strategies. Elementary schools in PGCPS that have integrated use of the Toolkit with the CFPG have shown increases in student achievement. Approximately one-half of the feeder elementary schools for the Turnaround Schools utilize Toolkit, so this will enhance the vertical alignment from one grade to August 2010 the next, and particularly ensure that students who are bringing stronger strategy awareness do not lose ground in middle school. At least 15 school districts in states such as Texas, California, Washington, and Massachusetts have extended use of the Toolkit into middle school for these reasons Comprehension Toolkit - now a (Heinemann’s subsidiary of HMH). The teaching moves and language learned through Toolkit are then applied to texts of increasing complexity at each grade.
has a well-developed middle school Curriculum Framework Progress Guide (CFPG) for reading. The CFPG has been aligned to State academic standards. (In 2009-2010, the middle grades CFPG was aligned to include the Toolkit strategies; additional work will be done this summer to refine.) However, comprehension strategy instruction, to ensure that students use the thinking processes that enable them to develop interpretive and critical stances towards reading objectives, is not yet widespread in grades 6-8. Teaching and use of comprehension strategies has been shown in the research to be effective across all ages and grade levels [(Pearson and Gallagher, (1983), Pearson et. al. (1992), Pressley (1976 and 2002)]. The Comprehension Toolkit provides teaching moves and language as tools for teachers to teach students to apply these strategies. Elementary schools in PGCPS that have integrated use of the Toolkit with the CFPG have shown increases in student achievement. Approximately one-half of the feeder elementary schools for the Turnaround Schools utilize Toolkit, so this will enhance the vertical alignment from one grade to the next, and particularly ensure that students who are bringing stronger strategy awareness do not lose ground in middle school. At least 15 school districts in states such as Texas, California, Washington, and Massachusetts have extended use of the Toolkit into middle school for these reasons (Heinemann’s Comprehension Toolkit - now a subsidiary of HMH). The teaching moves and language learned through Toolkit are then applied to texts of increasing complexity at each grade. August 2010 Anne Goudvis, Comprehension Toolkit Consultant Joanne Durham, Curriculum & Instruction; Turnaround Literacy Coach; Title I Literacy Coach
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