Campus Literacy Focus Rigor in Reading Writing Rigor

Campus Literacy Focus Rigor in Reading & Writing Rigor in Reading and Writing

Our Campus Literacy Focus and our Participation in the Texas Literacy Initiative • Background • As a participant in the Texas Literacy Initiative, we need to establish a team across all departments that will focus on literacy. Up to 14 people are needed. • We defined the overarching goals of our campus literacy program as follows: • Each student will read (sustained, silent reading) for 95 minutes a day. • Each student will write at least 4 organized, informational expository responses per day (short answer format - 9 lined STAAR template) in response to their "I Can" statement for each class. • Each student will write an essay as a culmination of their common assessment per grading period (26 line STAAR template). • Each student will write one research paper quarter through their ELA classes. • ELA further commits to contributing 30 minutes of purposeful, sustained, silent reading per class period toward the students' 95 minutes. • We decided to structure the Skills Problem of the Day as a cross-curricular survey of similar skills and process standards across the four core content areas (ELA, SS, Science, and Math). The student deliverable will be an organized, informational expository response (9 -line STAAR short answer template) regardless of the content area of the prompt.