SherylPate

=Title of Unit or Project: Be A Literacy Team Player=

Curriculum Framing Questions

 * ===Essential Question- Who's child is this?===
 * ===Unit Questions-===
 * ===How has "literacy" changed over time?===
 * ===How does literacy instruction benefit students, teachers, & schools?===
 * ===Content Questions-===
 * ===Who is responsible for literacy instruction?===
 * ===What factors affect literacy learning?===
 * ===How can you help students acquire new vocabulary?===
 * ===Why do students need to be able to adapt reading comprehension strategies?===
 * ===How can you incorporate quality reading & writing in your classroom?===
 * ===How can you lead students to becoming "literate" in your subject area?===
 * ===**The project idea-real world connections, authenticity**===
 * ===**The project idea-real world connections, authenticity**===

Visual Ranking

 * **Teachers will rank a list of instructional strategies based on the effect on literacy. This should stimulate discussion and sharing of the use and effectiveness of the strategies.**
 * **Cynical teachers might not take this activity seriously.**

Seeing Reason 

 * **Teachers will explore the factors that contribute to student learning. Then they will sort the factors based on what they can control. Hopefully this will inspire them to give students the best instruction they can to maximize learning in the classroom.**
 * **Teachers might feel that the task of teaching some students is futile.**

Showing Evidence 

 * **Teachers will evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of implementing PLCs.**
 * **Teachers will come to this very opinionated and will only try to prove their opinion****.**

Unit Plan