Jess? Towne 8/30/15 Appendix B Cognitive Processing Template "***Digital Copy Available on Moodle*** As you examine and read the weekly assigned chapters, use this template to stimulate your thinking and analysis. Come prepared to engage and lead discussion during class. | Essential Understandings from Text Readings/ Articles ‘Note: ference tte of book seacng |* “An integrated language arts approach to instruction extends the concept far language experience throughout the grades by immersing students in reading, writing, talking, listening, and viewing activities and can cut across subject matter areas” (Learning to Read, p. 45). * “The premise of high-stakes testing is that consequences good or bad, such as promation or retention decisions, are linked to a performance on a test” (Learning to Read, p. 146). |. “SSR is a time when everyone in the classroom reads silently.” (RICA, p. 10). i * — “Parents/guardians should receive information about the grade-level standards that their children are expected ta achieve. They should know how and when they will be informed of their child’s progress” (RICA, p. 22) scussion Questions / Perspectives jow can | integrate reading, writing, talking listening, and viewing activities into other jects besides reading and language arts? Pe ere hee ye of reesei a aude’ er fermen rau et fi sabes tori? fow can | integrate tonger periods of SSR in my classraom? and when will | express to parents how their child is performing in the classroom? Loa Application / Observation pie“Use the back for reflection notes after class discussion. "In this approach the language arts support one another and are connected through use of Uterature as well as informative text. Thus this approach is based on the premise that learning {s.a series of connections” (Learning to Read, p. 45). As a teacher, | need to be able to teach my students and show them that all subjects are important and interconnected. Ido Stakes testing is fair. | want all of my students to succeed, ana knowing that the only measure | have to test their intelligence is with standardized rdized testing 3 unsettling. Not all students learn the same way or have scholastic intelligence. “Expecting alt students at the same chronological age level to perform the same way and have the same skitls is unrealistic. Student's performances vary considerably from task to {ask and student to student” (Learning to Read, p. 146). no Children select their own reading material, which may be books, newspapers, encyclopedias, magazines or their textbaoks” (RICA, p. 10). | want my students to be interested in what they are reading. At the same time, I do not want them to be reading fictional fairytales all the time. | will have every other day in my classroom be pick your awn reading book day for SSR, and the other days be educational reading, so that my students can learn as well as have fun while reading. | will need to communicate to the parents about their student's daily/weekly progress, have Parent/teacher conferences, written summaries of student achievement of the standards, and emails and phone calls (RICA, p. 23). This ensures that the parents and | are.on the same page regarding their students.