A morning session, considering effective ways to support students in literacy. A focus on embedding skills within meaning.

1. Literacy Strategies for CUPE
Instructional Staff
Maple Ridge
February 13, 2018
Faye Brownlie
Slideshare.net/fayebrownlie/
MapleRidge CUPE

2. • OFen CUPE staff are asked to read and write with
our most vulnerable learners. What strategies
show the most promise for supporLng these
students? Do we scribe or not? Do we spell
words for them or not? Do we ask students when
reading to sound out words or take a guess and
keep reading? How do we keep them engaged in
reading and wriLng and having fun? Come and
explore answers to these quesLons and find
some of the most effecLve ways to spend our
Lme.

3. • Meaning
• Support
• Independence
• Agency
• RelaLonship

4. • Reading is understanding.
• Reading is always about making
sense.
• Reading has many forms and is
required across disciplines.

5. • Read the following slides.
• NoLce the strategies you use as you read.

9. Graphic Novels

10. MSV
M – meaning
Does this make sense?
S – language structure
Does this sound right?
V – visual informaLon
Does this look right?
How did you figure that out?

12. Volcano Surfing Sequence

13. Intensive Vocabulary Building
Before During A-er
acLve
cinder cone
erupted
steep slopes
billowing
crater
degree
angle

15. • AFer making the tough climb to the top,
volcano surfers put on ___________________
clothing – including ___________ goggles and
someLmes _____________ jumpsuits – to
keep out all the ash.

16. • AFer making the tough climb to the top,
volcano surfers put on
p___________________ clothing – including
p___________ goggles and someLmes
o_____________ jumpsuits – to keep out all
the ash.

17. • AFer making the tough climb to the top,
volcano surfers put on pro_________(3 syllables, root
word, keep you safe) clothing – including p______
(material) goggles and someLmes o______ (colour)
jumpsuits – to keep out all the ash.

18. Why is volcano surfing risky?
• Read with the quesLon in mind.
• Answer the quesLon, with a partner, orally.
• Answer the quesLon in wriLng, using as many of
the key terms from the text as possible. Can you
give 3 reasons? 4?
• In Crazy Challenges – Jill Eggleton
• Key Links Literacy

21. Shared Reading

25. snow
cocoa
outside
slide

26. In Reflection
• I will try…
• Something that has been confirmed for me…
• Something I am sLll wondering about…