1. Increase Literacy Utilizing
Active Engagement
Cyndy Amrhein, Reading Specialist
Beth Cipriano, Assistant Principal
Erin O’Dore, Second Grade Teacher
Sanders Corner Elementary
Loudoun County Public Schools

2.  To demonstrate the importance of keeping students
actively engaged in their learning.
 To provide ready-to-use active engagement strategies
and activities in your lessons from Day 1.
Objectives

3. Is this how you begin your week?

4. “That’s me!”
Getting to Know Each Other

5. Ron Nash
“Students thrive and
grow as active learners
in ways they do not
when they are simply
passive observers.”

6. “The needs of students
are my priority. Engaging
students in meaningful
literacy learning is what I
strive to achieve with
each lesson I prepare.”
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Estill
Beth Estill

7. SOL…AYP…AMO…Oh my!

8. What is Active Engagement?
Why teach this way?

10. Paired Verbal Fluency

11. Using Music

12. Let’s Move…
 Hand Up, Stand Up,
Pair Up
 Square Up
 Other uses for music
 Erin’s playlist

14. Oxygen to the brain.
Administration Look for…

15. Feathered Friends
Clock Buddies
Famous Pairs
Learning Partner
Grouping Ideas

16. Turn and Talk
 “Talk is the bridge that
helps us make
connections between
what we know and what
we are coming to know.”
~ Booth, 1994

17. “Body Sort”

18. • True/False
• Fiction/Non-fiction
• Yes/No
• Problem/Solution
• Fantasy/Real
“Show Me
Pocket”

19. First Day Jitters
by Julie Danneberg

20. Read Aloud Lesson
 Fan-n-Pick  Gallery Walk

21. Closing remarks
 Greater Washington
Reading Council Annual
Conference
 December 3, 2013
 Exit Ticket – Knew/New