1. Highly qualified professionals who are
interested in serving to improve literacy
instruction across the curriculum
RLT Meets 1st Tuesday of the month Room
3119
Positive impact on student
learning
HGHS
Join us during lunch @ Starbooks Café
in room 3119, every Monday through
HGHS Literacy Team Thursday for great coffee and great
Literacy
Mission Statement books!
Our goal is to help students at
our school to become effective
users of ideas and information,
Plan
to become lifelong learners, 2010 – 2011
and to learn to love reading.
Our mission is to foster
independence, and stimulate
interest in reading by creating a “When I look back, I am so
Starbooks Exchange wants your used
school-wide culture that books impressed again with the life
motivates students to read. Help us build Hialeah Gardens High
giving power of literature. If I were
a young person today, trying to
Please email questions to School’s own used book store!
carmenconcepcion@dadeschools.net
gain a sense of myself in the world,
Ask your students to bring their used books I would do that again by reading,
hghs.dadeschools.net and a one page summary of each book to just as I did when I was young.”
11700 Hialeah Gardens Blvd.
Mrs. Concepcion in room 3119. Students
Hialeah Gardens, Florida, 33018 will receive 4 hours of community service. Maya Angelou
Phone: 305-698-5000 Ext. 2167 Starbooks Exchange is open during lunch in
Fax: 305-698-5001 Room 7104
2. HGHS School-Wide Literacy Plan
HGHS Word of the Day
• Pick up the WORD OF THE DAY and be on your way to a great GLADIATOR day!
• Find power point with daily words @ hghs.dadeschools.net/reading
• Share word of the day with students every morning during 1st and 2nd block
• Require students to keep vocabulary notebook
• Ask students to write down word of the day in their notebooks and choose sentence that best helps them
remember the meaning of the word
• Vocabulary notebooks will be checked by English teachers every Friday
HGHS Common Graphic Organizers
• Use a common graphic organizer per month in order to help students make the connection between cross
curricular content
• Students will be informed that for the entire month, they must use this method of organization to make
sense of all of their notes/work in all their classes
• Teachers from ALL disciplines will reinforce the use of this method of organization in class
• Monthly graphic organizers will be shared with faculty at the monthly faculty meeting
HGHS: Seventh Period “A” Powerhouse Reading “A”cademy
• Join us Monday through Thursday from 2:30 – 3:30 as we prepare our 9th and 10th graders for the Reading
FCAT
• You will be paid your hourly rate (from $23.00 to $32.00 depending on your degrees and the number of
hours you have worked either in hourly or through adult education)
• All teaching materials and pacing guides will be provided to you
• If interested, please see Mrs. Concepcion, Mr. Redmon or Mr. Veloso
• Any core certification is acceptable (Language Arts, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Mathematics)
