Physical Environment
- Flexible layout ensuring the opportunity for whole group, small group, and independent learning
- Evidence of authentic student work throughout room
- Project-based learning environment is evident
- Classroom is rich with digital and media content
- Academic vocabulary is prevalent throughout the classroom for both instructional purposes and student reference
- Contains a classroom library consisting of literary and informational texts in a wide variety of genres
- Adequate technology is available for both students and teachers
- Classroom is organized in such a manner that students can find material and resources to aid in the research process.
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Teacher
- Provides students with an appropriate balance of literary and informational text
- Incorporates the four aspects of literacy (reading, writing, language, speaking and listening) into lessons/units of study in all content areas
- Serves as a facilitator within the classroom, interacting with students
- Guides the classroom discussion, but allows for topic-appropriate conversation to take place among the students
- Provides opportunities for authentic literacy practice rather than worksheets
- Utilizes technology in authentic* ways in the classroom for presentation, instruction, performance tasks, assessment.
- Presents text in a multitude of formats: written, spoken, video, and other forms of multimedia
Ensures that text dependent questions guide students back into the text
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Student
- Self-directed and striving towards academic independence
- Participates in collaborative learning opportunities
- Active participant in classroom discussion
- Draws evidence from literary and informational texts to support analysis, reflection and research when writing and speaking
- Engages in the research process
- Reads like a detective —closely analyzing the text to determine meaning
- Writes like a reporter—developing a complete piece of writing that displays understanding of the process as a whole
- Utilizes technology in authentic ways to gain knowledge, to deepen knowledge of concepts, collaborate, communicate, and present mastery of learning.
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