ARI Strategies

What is the Alabama Reading Initiative?

a statewide K-12 program The goal of the ARI is to significantly

improve reading instruction and ultimately achieve 100% literacy among public school students.

Offers training for teachers helps them teach reading in proven and effective ways.

Characteristics of Skillful Readers according to ARI

Skillful readers demonstrate

Accuracy

Fluency

Active building of meaning

Self-regulation

Three Targets

Strengthen reading instruction in the early grades

Expand students comprehension levels

Intervene with struggling readers

Eight Modules for Teacher Training

1. Language development and vocabulary2. Phonemic awareness and phonics3. Concepts of print4. Comprehension strategies5. Reading/writing connection6. Formal assessment7. Informal assessment8. Effective intervention

What is MMGW: Making Middle Grades Work?

1. Read the equivalent of 25 books per year across the curriculum.

2. Write weekly in all classes.3. Use reading and writing strategies

to enhance learning in all classes.4. Write research papers in all

classes.

Pre- Assess

When we catch fish,

we bait the hook with what

the fish like

not what

the fisherman likes.

Anticipation Guides

  Daniel’s Story        Agree          Disagree                        

Power eventually corrupts the people who have it. Killing someone is always wrong. One must take a stand against injustice, even if the personal cost is

great.

Moral courage is more difficult to accomplish than physical courage.

Evil often spirals out of control.

help to engage students in thought

and discussion about ideas and concepts

that they will encounter in the text.

Conversations Across Time

helps students to develop deeper insights by making

connections between and across texts from different time periods in

response to a common topic, theme, or essential question.

Conversations Across Time

Is the world a fair and just place?

Squirrel: Dog’s Life

Romeo and Juliet: Parvana : Breadwinner

Your ExperienceJackson Pollock

Monet Andy Warhol

Your Experience

What is art?

Frame of Reference - (KWL)

TOPIC

What I know…..

How I know…..

VietnamWar

Frame of Reference - (KWL)

What I know…..

How I know…..

VietnamWar

America got involved, but it was an unpopular war and divided our country more and more as time passed; a major peace movement was born (began in colleges & universities)

My dad was a college student at theTime Participated in the peacemovement

3 Truths and a FIB

Edgar Allan Poe was in the military for a short time.

Edgar Allan Poe married his cousin, Virginia Clemm.

Edgar Allan Poe died mysteriously while wearing another man’s clothes.

Edgar Allan Poe was named after a character in Hamlet.

During Reading

Most Important Word

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

R.A.F.T. for Romeo & Juliet

ROLE Audience Format TOPIC

Juliet

Self Diary

Entry

Was Romeo Really the right Guy for Me?Trave

ling Minstrel

Whomever will Liste

n

Song

Tragic

Tale of

Romeo &

Juliet

Are we asking the right questions?

B L O O M ’S R E V IS E D T A X O N O M Y

C re a tin g G e n e ra t in g n e w id e a s , p ro d u c ts , o r w a y s o f

v ie w in g th in g s D e s ig n in g , c o n s tru c t in g , p la n n in g , p ro d u c in g ,

in v e n t in g .

E v a lu a t in g J u s t ify in g a d e c is io n o r c o u rs e o f a c t io n

C h e c k in g , h y p o th e s iz in g , c r it iq u in g , e xp e r im e n t in g , ju d g in g

A n a ly z in g B re a k in g in fo rm a t io n in to p a rts to e xp lo re

u n d e rs ta n d in g s a n d re la t io n s h ip s C o m p a r in g , o rg a n iz in g , d e c o n s tru c t in g ,

in te rro g a t in g , f in d in g

A p p ly in g U s in g in fo rm a t io n in a n o th e r fa m ilia r s itu a t io n Im p le m e n t in g , c a rry in g o u t, u s in g , e xe c u t in g

U n d e rs ta n d in g E xp la in in g id e a s o r c o n c e p ts

In te rp re t in g , s u m m a riz in g , p a ra p h ra s in g , c la s s ify in g , e xp la in in g

R e m e m b e r in g R e c a llin g in fo rm a t io n

R e c o g n iz in g , l is t in g , d e s c r ib in g , re tr ie v in g , n a m in g , f in d in g

Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised)

Complexity vs. More Difficult

Question:Name all of the

Presidents of the U.S. ?

DifferentiationComplexity vs. More Difficult

More Difficult Question:Name all the Presidents of the U.S. and the years they served and their wife’s name and their birthday and

their pets, and what was their favorite meal?

(You may have to use the computer to find the answers)

DifferentiationComplexity vs. More Difficult

More Complex Question:

Choose your favorite U.S. President and read his inaugural address.

What is the single most important word in the speech? Why? How

does that word relate to the nation at the time of the address? How does it relate to our world today?

    

Write a 4-6 sentence paragraph identifying

the rising action, climax, and resolution

in the story.      

Why do you think the author wrote this book? Write a 4-6

sentence paragraph explaining what you think the author’s

main purpose for the story is.

Pretend you are a real estate agent. Create

a brochure that describes the location where the story takes place, in a way that

would convince people to move there.

     

Create a new character for the

story. Describe what the character is like. Write at least three

ways the story would be different if that

character were in the story.

     

Create a project idea of your own. Check with your teacher before starting.

Choose two characters from the story and one

choice that each of them made. Write a paragraph or create a

diagram to demonstrate the

differences in how the two characters make

decisions.    

Write a script for a scene in the story that you consider to be the most important part. With a partner, use

your script to act out the scene (2-4

minutes).     

After you’ve finished reading the book, predict what will

happen in the future for five of the

characters. Name five characters and write

one or two things that you think will happen in the future for each

one.

Write a letter from the point of view of one

character, explaining the conflict in the

story. Write the letter to an imaginary pen pal, someone who wouldn’t know the other characters or

the situation.

THINK-

TAC-

TOE

Interactive Notebook

The right side of the notebook is used to record notes on a mini-lesson, lecture, reading, class discussion, etc. 

The left side of the notebook is used solely for the purpose of the student’s individual interaction with the information on the right page.  

What about Math?

Real World Applications

Situations in the real world where I may encounter this concept

My Understanding of This ConceptSolve this problem and explain your

answer thoroughly in a written statement.

MATH CONCEPT

Is means…

VocabularyWords and meanings that are needed to

understand this conceptOR its applications

Paul has a bag with 8 cubes all the same size: 1 red, 4 yellow, and 3 blue. He chooses a blue cube without looking and does not put it back in the bag. What is the probability of choosing a yellow cube after the blue cube has been removed?

Write and solve your own problem.

•The Futures Channel

Photosynthesis

Chloroplast

Cell Wall

Endoplasmic Reticulum

Plant

Animal

Photosynthesis

Chloroplast

Cell W

all

Plant

Animal

VOCABULARY

SQ3RBefore you read, Survey the chapter

Question while you are surveying

When you begin toRead

Recite after you've read a section:

Review: an ongoing process

Differentiation

Exit Strategies One minute Quiz

Exit cards

3-2-1

Differentiation

Start Slowly, it doesn’t matter where you begin as

long as you begin!!