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See Student Work Samples       See photos of standards based application

Framework for Implementation of Standards in Duval County Public Schools

(Raising and Engaging Awareness for Developing Effective Readers)
Our Literacy Coach, has created a R.E.A.D.E.R. room for our teachers and parents. This room contains a collection of leveled books available for checkout. Teachers and parents who know the reading level of a child may select a book on the child’s appropriate reading level. Stop by and visit the room, fill out a form to check out books, and ask questions. This room has been funded through grants, donations and school funds. We continue to seek funds for additional books, so all donations are welcomed.

Standards Based Instruction 
The School Standards Coach at Chimney Lakes Elementary, has responsibilities that include staff development on the implementation of standards based instruction. Instruction is delivered using the 60 minute workshop model. The teaching is broken down into three areas: mini-lesson, student work time, and closure.

 During the 10-15 minute mini-lesson, the teacher introduces the standard element (what the students are expected to accomplish) and strategy for the students to accomplish using charting, authentic literature, and class discussions. The students have 35-45 minutes of independent work time. In this session, the students apply the strategy either independently or as a group. While the students are working, the teacher holds student conferences, makes observations, or works with a small group of students. Once the independent time is completed, the students gather back together for the lesson’s closure (5-10 minutes). Here, students share a piece of work where they applied the strategy and the teacher reviews the expectations from the lesson.

 A Modeled Lesson Example
Recently, we to modeled a Report Writing lesson for Mrs. Griffin’s 2^nd grade class. The standard introduced to the students during the mini-lesson was: Report Writing

Element 2 - communicate big ideas, insights or theories that have been elaborated on or illustrated through facts, details, quotations, statistics, and information

During the mini-lesson, we discussed what the elements mean. Then we read Steam Power by Heather Hammonds and charted the strategies the author used to communicate the ‘big idea’ of steam power. During the independent work time, students worked in groups to pull out different strategies from other non-fiction text to discover what the authors used to convey the ‘big idea’ of each topic. Every student in the group had a special job. The student could have been the reporter, recorder, facilitator, or reader. By working together, the students created charts of strategies they found in the non-fiction texts.

 During the closing session, each reporter shared the strategies the group found in their designated text. Together, we charted a complete list of all the different strategies of communicating the ‘big idea’ we found in the non-fiction books. The Primary Literacy Standards (NCEE) book listed five ways the students could demonstrate communicating the ‘big idea’ of the report. By the end of the closing session, the students discovered eighteen different strategies they could use to communicate their big ideas in report writing and meet the element of the standard.

 We enjoy modeling the report writing lesson for  young authors. We look forward to reading the reports and finding all the different strategies students used to communicate their big ideas!

For more information on standards based instruction, please contact: (904) 573-1100
Standards Coach at Chimney Lakes Elementary