Literacy-Based Projects

Open Ended

Do your students have the opportunity to create and demonstrate their knowledge and abilities? Explain- unit, product, task, method, etc.

Literacy-Based Projects

Equitable & Accurate Assessment​

By Martin Mireles

What are the standard(s)?

What are the components?

What language do they need?​

Construct a rubric!​​

Start with the End Goal​

Opportunities to Language & Construct Meaning

What are the content goals of the texts provided or the ones students are negotiating with?

What are your languaging goals?​

​Read & Analyze an Article Provided

Research Resources to Determine Stance

Write an Initial Argument- Independently

Combine Written Arguments w/ Partner

Synthesize Information into Presentation

Argumentative Essay of Choice- Independently

​Reading Anchor Chart

• Teaching concept(s)

• Based on R.I. 8.8 & W. 8.1​

• Pair w/Rubric

• Tools to construct meaing

• Resources to reference​

Consider

• Argumentative- Claim, reasons, & evidence

• Informational- Cent​ral idea, key ideas, specific details

Mini-Lesson: Acquiring Skills

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​Purposes: (R.I. 8.8 & W. 8.1)

• Set expectations for research & sources​​

• Model electing strongest text evidence (R.I. 8.1)​

• Validate & reflect on identity

• School-wide initiative

​Scaffolded/Scaffolding:

• Graphic organizer

• Speech-to-text, text-to-speech, word prediction software, Google Translate​, Grammarly

Reading w/ Purpose

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Should students learn more than one language?​

​Researching--> English or Spanish

• Differentiated process:

• ​Inquiry and/or different text levels provided

​ • ​Text-to-speech & Google Translate

​Constructing the Argument

• Structure & Rubric Provided

​ • Differentiated process:

• Dynamic languaging but languaging goals

• Sentence frames

• speech-to-text, word prediction software, Google Translate, Grammarly​

Dynamic Languaging​

Flexible Partner Groups

• Considered literacy & language

• ​Social consideration- languaging​

​Co-constructing the Argument

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Collaboration/Co-constructing- Negotiating Meaning

Literacy-Based Projects