The New and Improved NAF Learning Handbook

Laura Fidler, Instructional Manager laura@naf.org

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What is the NAF Learning Handbook?

•Think of it as a ‘users guide’ to the NAF Curriculum

•The handbook shows you how to engage students through tried and true strategies that help meet new common core standards

•Acclimates academies to the NAF curriculum in order to implement in its full capacity

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The goal of the handbook is to make teachers more confident and effective in the

classroom

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What’s new?

• Organization– Foundations of NAF

Curriculum– Orientation to NAF

Curriculum Online Library

– Course Structure– Key Activities and

Strategies– Strategies for

Improving Vocabulary

• Literacy Strategies added:– Debate– Four Corners– Vote with your feet– Multi-pass Method– Panel Discussion– True/False– Venn Diagrams– Sticky note review– Peer review prompts

(with rubrics) – Thumbs up/Thumbs

down

What’s new?

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Curriculum Online Library

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• Anticipation Guide • Debate • Composing with Key

Words • Cornell Notes • Defining Format • Four Corners• Four Corners • Gallery Walk • Key Word Notes • K-W-L (Know, Want to

Know, Learned• List, Group, Label

Key Activities and Strategies

• Multi-Pass Method • Panel Discussion • Peer Review Prompts • Peer Review Using a

Rubric • Reading Jigsaw • Sticky Note Review• SQ3R • Taxonomy • Thumbs Up, Thumbs

Down • Think, Pair, Share • True or False • Venn Diagram • Vote with Your Feet

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Some Literary Genres That Students Could Write in NAF Courses• Memoir • Biography• Comedy• Diaries & Journals • Essays (Personal,

Explanatory, Persuasive

• Research Report• Resumes• Business Letter• Photo Essay

• Brochure• Skit• Media Reviews• Articles• Editorials• Post Cards• Advertisements• Project Proposal• Personal Letter• Pamphlet

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Some Literacy Stats in America….DoSomething.org

•1 in 4 children in America grow up without learning how to read.

•As of 2011, America was the only free-market OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) country where the current generation was less well educated than the previous.

•Literacy is a learned skill. Illiteracy is passed down from parents who can neither read nor write

•75 percent of Americans who receive food stamps perform at the lowest 2 levels of literacy, and 90 percent of high school dropouts are on welfare

•Teenage girls ages 16 to 19 who live at or below the poverty level and have below average literacy skills are 6 times more likely to have children out of wedlock than the girls their age who can read proficiently.

•Reports show that low literacy directly costs the healthcare industry over $70 million every year.

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What are some of the ways you teach literacy in your Academy

classes already?

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With which literacy skills do your students have the most difficulty

grasping?

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Key-Word-Notes: note taking activity

• helps students organize their thoughts during longer or more difficult readings.

• serve as a formative assessment for you, allowing you to see how well students grasp the material based on the terms they choose and the summaries they write

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5. Summary Sentence

1. 2.

3. 4.

Key Word Notes: graphic organizer

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Key Word Notes: Steps

• Students work in pairs; each individual gets Key Word Notes form.

• Everyone reads designated piece of text individually, silently.

• Each student selects 3-4 words as memory aids, writes in Box 1.

• Partners tell each other what words they selected and why.

• Student repeat steps 2-4, completing all segments, using boxes 2,3,4.

• Books closed, each student uses his/her Key Words to write a summary in Box 5

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Strategies for Improving Vocabulary

• Comparison Matrix

• Frayer Model • Mystery Word • Possible

Sentences • Semantic

Mapping • Vocabulary

Bingo

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How do I use this to further my academy’s growth?

• Instructional strategies implemented across entire academy

• Further work-based learning integration

• Use common planning time to share strategies used/model strategy

• Engage Advisory Board• Build academy culture

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Metacognitive Statements

• As a result of this session, I will do the following three things:

• First,

• And,

• Finally,