Our Freedom Bell Rings for Literacy, Learning, and Liberty
Today's assessments are a measure of literacy! Students must read, understand, comprehend, and effectively utilize skills that involve the need for implementing literacy strategies. Every question involves literacy. This allows for all students to have their freedom bell ring for literacy, learning and liberty. This presentation will address the idea of using Lexiles to measure student reading ability and correlating the data to student achievement. Additionally, this presentation will attack the long-asked question of how to provide secondary teachers the tools necessary to implement effective literacy strategies into the daily lesson, how to build capacity to observe simple look fors that work during lessons, and the ways to help teachers to teach content through literacy based concepts.
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