ENGLISH GROUP

LIST OF SLAC PRIORITY TOPICS

JUNIOR HIGH SLAC MATERIALS/TOPICS ON PRIMALS

1. Session 1 -Unpacking the English curriculum standards
2. Session 2 Understanding English language learners (ELLs)
3. Session 3 Determining Text Types, Journalistic, Academic and Scientific
4. Session 4. Defining Words through Context and Word Analysis
5. Session 5 Noting significant details to draw conclusions and make inferences
6. Session 6 Distinguishing between facts and opinions for critical reading
7. Session 7 Determining Cause-Effect Relationship
8. Session 8 Getting the main ideas and supporting details
9. Session 9 Making inferences and predicting outcomes
10. Session 10Inferring THE general mood of the selection
11. Session 11Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in grammar instruction
12. Session 12 Literacy across the curriculum: changing Paradigms
13. Session 13 Text complexity in the content areas: Implications for instruction
14. Session 14 Developing Disciplinary Literacy: Meeting reader and task demands
15. Session 15 Utilizing Disciplinary Literacy in attaining independent reading and writing
16. Session 16 Engaging Students with Trade Books and Digital Texts
17. Session 17 Developing Multiliteracies in English
18. Session 18 Integrating educational technology in English
19. Session 19 Utilizing webquests, videos, and educational technology tools in English
20. The Art of Questioning

Topics for SLAC PRIMALS 4-6 (Grade 4-6)

1. Session 1 Unpacking the English language arts curriculum

2. Session 2 Addressing Least Learned Skills
3. Session 3 The Nature and Elements of Narrative Texts
Using Story Grammar and Graphic Organizers in Understanding Narrative Texts
4. Session 4 The Nature of Informative texts
5. Session 5 Understanding reading comprehension
6. Session 6 Activating prior knowledge
7. Session 7 Developing vocabulary and concepts
8. Session 8 Developing a purpose for reading
9. Session 9 Discussion strategies and talk in the literacy classroom
10. Session 10 Interacting with the text
11. Session 11 Elaborating ideas from the texts
12. Session 12 The art of questioning in the reading classroom
13. Session 13 Overview of explicit teaching of reading comprehension skills
14. Session 14 Explicit teaching of reading comprehension skills: Framework and procedure
15. Session 15 Connecting reading with writing
16. Session 16.0 The writing process
17. Session 17 Writing to learn
18. Session 18. Formative and summative assessment
19. Session 19 Formative assessment strategies
20. Session 20 Assessing reading instruction
21. Session 21 Demonstration teaching, processing, and feedback