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Using MY Access! to Support Special Education Instruction

By qualtic
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According to Hall, Strongman, & Meyer (2003), differentiated instruction allows all students to access the same classroom (curriculum) by providing entry points, learning tasks, and outcomes that are tailored to students’ needs. Teachers and administrators find an assistant in MY Access!, the award-winning literacy solution from Vantage Learning that addresses issues particular to special education instruction.

1. MY Access! addresses various learning styles:

Visual Learners-Students who think in terms of pictures.

  • MY Access! provides picture and art prompts that encourage visual interpretation and analysis.
  • Scores can be displayed graphically at the student level.
  • All of our instructional materials can be printed by the student or teacher. There are many prewriting tools to help students develop and display their ideas visually.
  • MY Tutor feedback incorporates color coding to engage student thinking.

Auditory Learners — Students who learn and understand by hearing or reciting material.

  • A variety of multimedia resources from iSEEK can supplement instruction.

Kinesthetic learners — Students who learn by touch and experience.

  • MY Access! allows students to type their responses and activate feedback within the program with just one click.
  • MY Access! instructional handouts can be used for tactile lessons. For example, students can cut up the handout, fill it in, and build and deconstruct their ideas by moving the pieces until the ideas make sense.

2. MY Access! Supports differentiated instruction through instructional tools and features:

  • Immediate, scaffolded diagnostic MY Tutor and MY Editor feedback is available at several levels (proficient, developing, and auto-readability) at the assignment level.
  • Instructional tools like the spell-checker can be turned on to provide extra help.
  • Teachers or administrators can create subgroups to assign the most appropriate tasks in small group instruction.
  • iSEEK resources and MY Access! Writing Support Series assessments are available to help teachers provide remediation or enrichment activities.
  • Comprehensive peer review comment banks that apply to all genres of writing can be printed and used for small group work.
  • For each submission, teachers can make general or embedded comments that can be printed and saved. Comments on student work can be compiled for the whole year through the student portfolio.
  • Parents can access any student work at any time using their student’s account information. Letters to a parent can be generated for any student submission.
  • The program can be used for cross-curricular instruction in ELA, science, history, and math.

3. Extensive reporting capabilities of MY Access! support efforts to keep accurate and timely reports. To develop goals and strategies for each student, teachers and administrators can:

  • Monitor weaknesses and pinpoint strengths of each student from the teacher, school, and district levels.
  • Populate data for required forms such as IEPs (Individualized Education Programs).
  • Compile and analyze data external to MY Access!, such as scores on standardized assessments with the additional help of iSEEK Supercruncher.

Reference
Hall, T., Strongman, N., & Meyer, A. (2003). Differentiated instruction and implications for UDL implementation. National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum.

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Writing on Demand: Preparing for SAT, AP and State Writing Assessments

By qualtic
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Lesson Plan: Writing on Demand 1 Comment

Grade levels: Middle-High School
Key Concepts: Writing on Demand, SAT®, AP®, state assessments, academic writing, college readiness
Submitted by: Kathryn S. Pabst, Lovejoy High School, Lucas,Texas Kathryn_Pabst@lovejoyisd.net

“Research and experience show that writers need three things: ownership of the form and subject of their writing, feedback from other writers, and time to draft and revise. Yet the harsh and confusing reality of today’s college-entrance and state-mandated examinations—or any test with an essay component—is that students, trained in writing workshops, go on the clock to compose a paper on an assigned topic, in a prescribed form, for which they will receive no feedback. …And their future depends on it.”
Anne Ruggles Gere, University of Michigan
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A Customized MY Access! Lesson on Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon.

By Steph Dixon
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Lesson Plans: Literary Comments Off

Tailoring a Narrative IntelliMetric™ Prompt: A Customized MY Access! ® Lesson on Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon.

Contributed by: Stephanie Dixon. Stephanie Dixon is a former eighth grade English teacher, a user of MY Access!®, and a TOSA (teacher on special assignment) support provider for teachers using MY Access!® within her district. She used the following lesson with her students and was extremely pleased with their deep, insightful, and polished responses. She hopes that this lesson will connect with your students in the same way that it did with hers.

Target Grade Level: Middle School

Time: 2-3 class periods

Keys Concepts: Narrative writing, Writing Process, Point of View, Character Analysis, Prompt Customization

“Flowers for Algernon,” by Daniel Keyes, is a novella that is commonly taught in middle school English classrooms across the country. The story is creatively written as a series of journal entries composed by the main character, Charlie Gordon, who undergoes experimental surgery in an attempt to increase his extremely low IQ. As the story progresses and Charlie’s intelligence grows, he begins to accomplish tasks that were impossible for him to complete prior to his surgery. Perhaps for the first time in his life, Charlie experiences moments where he feels proud of himself.

Making MY Access!® Work Specifically for You: While MY Access!® has a literary prompt, “Human Engineering in ‘Flowers for Algernon,’” that is specifically aligned to the story, you can also assess your students’ understanding of Charlie’s emotional transformation by tailoring the narrative prompt, “Feeling Proud.”  This process of adapting a narrative prompt to align with a literary text is an effective way to help students make the reading/writing connection and demonstrate their knowledge of a character.**

**However, Intellimetric prompts cannot be completely rewritten and still be effectively scored. Rather, if you are interested in refining or revising the text of an Intellimetric prompt to fit your instructional plan, we recommend that you consult with our Scoring Experts first. They can be reached by email at: ScoringCenter@vantage.com

Customizing the Prompt:

Step 1: Select the middle school narrative IntelliMetric, “Feeling Proud.” The prompt reads as follows:

From time to time, we do things that make us proud of ourselves. Sometimes we are the only ones who even know what we have done, but we recognize that performing a good deed is often its own reward. Write a narrative about something you did that made you feel proud.

Describe what happened and explain why you felt a sense of pride. Remember to make sure the reader has enough details about your experience so he or she can picture it in his or her mind.

Step 2: Using the Assignment Wizard, select your resources and assignment preferences in steps 2-5.

Step 3: Insert or type in the following revised text in step 6 “Special Instructions”

From time to time, we do things that make us proud of ourselves. Sometimes we are the only ones who even know what we have done, but we recognize that performing a good deed is often its own reward. Think about the many moments in “Flowers for Algernon” in which Charlie feels proud. For this story, put yourself in Charlie’s shoes. From Charlie’s point of view, write a story in which you describe one of Charlie’s proud moments and explain why he feels a sense of pride. Remember to make sure to provide enough details about the experience, so the reader can picture it in his or her mind.

Step 4: Print and distribute the revised assignment. NOTE: Although students will see the original text “Feeling Proud,” remind students that they will be writing to the revised text displayed in “special instructions” located on the dropdown menu under the PROMPT button (on the student writing screen).

Prewriting: It is essential that your students engage in a prewriting activity in order to gather their thoughts before responding to this customized prompt. Following this blog are two graphic organizers. These graphic organizers are exclusively designed to assist your students in preparing to write to the “Feeling Proud” prompt. Both organizers ask the students to recall three moments Charlie feels proud of himself. Though the prompt asks students to write about only one of these moments, it is helpful for them to prewrite on more than one proud moment, in case they hit a dead end in the beginning stages of writing and decide to change topics. The two organizers also direct students to bring each proud moment to life through the use of sensory detail. By processing these details before beginning their first drafts, students are able to begin their essays with strong senses of what they would like to communicate and what information they will use to do so.

Composing: Once students have finished their prewriting, they are ready to go online and begin drafting their stories! Remember, when students are drafting online or offline, it is important for teachers to circulate throughout the lab or classroom, providing positive instructional feedback and suggestions to their students. If you have limited access to the computer lab, have your students write their first draft by hand. Then, when the computer lab is available, they can quickly type in their stories, receive immediate instructional feedback, and begin to increase their writing proficiency!

Publishing: When students have completed their final drafts, encourage them to print a published version of their work by clicking on the “Publish” icon in their student portfolio. This feature allows their work to be printed in a variety of visually pleasing themes, including Western, Rose, and Ocean Blue. These printed pieces make wonderful wall décor for Back to School or Open House and give students a small taste of what it feels like to be a published writer.

Culminating Activity: Have your students research the author, Daniel Keyes. Students can easily find safe and authoritative resources in iSEEK  In their research, students will discover that Keyes’ book was labeled as a banned book for many years. This is a perfect opportunity to transition into a debate on whether or not books should be banned, using iSEEK to research both sides of the argument, and the MY Access! middle school persuasive prompt, “Banning Books” as a writing component.

Graphic organizers:

Filming the Moment Charlie Feels Proud:

http://www.myaccess.com/myaccess/help_resources/FilmIdea_Charlie_draft2_15.pdf

Sensory Details: Describing when Charlie Feels Proud

http://www.myaccess.com/myaccess/help_resources/When_Charlie_Feels_Proud2_12draft.pdf

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How Vantage Learning Can Support ELL Instruction

By qualtic
Posted in Uncategorized, Because Writing Matters, Lesson Plans No Comments

According to Short and Echevarria, “Teachers can use the regular core curriculum and modify their teaching to make the content understandable for ELLs” (2004). And the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) has provided guidelines for teachers to help non native speakers develop their knowledge and use of English using specific strategies.

These can be supported by Vantage Learning solutions. Review the strategies and add your own suggestions in the comment section below:

Strategies for teaching ELL
according to the NCTE
How Vantage Learning supports ELL instruction
Provide a nurturing environment for writing Revision goals and modeling help demystify what proficient writing is by explicitly stating advice with examples.Instruction will include supplementary materials such as offline instructional tools such as The Writer’s Guide, and graphic organizers to help students develop ideas gradually.
Practice status is available for prompts so grades will not be recorded and students are free to practice writing.
Scores can be turned off for any prompt so students can practice writing.
Introduce cooperative, collaborative writing activities which promote discussion and promote peer interaction to support learning
Prepared peer review comments are available to guide students in focus, positive peer review.Teacher comments are automated and can be general or embedded into a specific place in the essay.
Provide frequent meaningful opportunities for students to generate their own texts; Design writing assignments for a variety of audiences, purposes, and genres,
Teachers have access to over 1100 prompts and can create their own prompts.
·         There are five writing genres to choose from.
·         Purposes include:  telling a story, summarizing or convincing.
·         Audiences include: parents, principals and friends
MY Access! prompts are aligned to state and textbook standards.
Scaffold the writing instruction;
My Tutor’s immediate diagnostic feedback is scaffolded so students can review goals for revision that apply to their proficiency status for each submission.
My Editor identifies errors most commonly made and provides instructional feedback on Spelling and Grammar in their native language.
Spanish language My Tutor feedback is available so students can review feedback about their writing in their native language.
Data for ELL learners can be collected and crunched through extensive reporting features so teachers can target instruction.
Provide models of well-organized papers for the class. Teachers should consider glossing sample papers with comments that point to the specific aspects of the paper that make it well written; For each Intellimetric prompt, writing models for each score point are available.  Each essay is accompanied by comprehensive commentary that addresses the five traits of writing.
Instructional Units and lesson plans provide step by step instructions to teach teachers show students how to evaluate writing.
Offer comments on the strength of the paper, in order to indicate areas where the student is meeting expectations; Embedded comments and My Tutor feedback encourage students as they point to areas of improvement.
Teachers should consider beginning feedback with global comments (content and ideas, organization, thesis) and then move on to more local concerns (or mechanical errors) when student writers are more confident with the content of their draft;
Teachers can select the traits to “turn on” in the Assignment Wizard to focus instruction. For early drafts, turning off or hiding My Tutor feedback for Language Use and Mechanics is encouraged.
Teachers may also turn off My Editor.
Give more than one suggestion for change — so that students still maintain control of their writing;
 
My Tutor feedback at each score point contains at least two revision goals
Students create revision strategies and reflect on their changes in the Revision Plan
A list of comprehensive prepared embedded comments about all traits of writing is available.
Do not assume that every learner understands how to cite sources or what plagiarism is.  Students should be provided with strategies for avoiding plagiarism. Informational and Literary My Tutor feedback details the procedure and thought process behind citing texts.
Instructional handouts such as MLA and APA Style Guides and graphic organizers explain how students can help students build their own ideas and attribute the ideas of others.
Resources

     NCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs) Prepared by the NCTE ELL Task Force Approved by the NCTE Executive Committee April 2006.

Short, D and Eschevarria, J. “Teacher Skills to Support English Language Learners.” Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Found at

Supplementing Grammar Instruction with MY Editor Modules

By qualtic
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Teachers now have a new effective tool for the challenge of teaching grammar. Vantage Learning has joined its innovative assessment platform, SPMS® (Student Progress Monitoring System) with its award winning instructional and data management resources in MY Access! through the MY Editor Modules. (more…)

Using the Four Square Graphic Organizer with MY Access!

By qualtic
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plan: Prewriting No Comments

Objectives of the Lesson:

Students will be able to construct a brainstorming web for a given topic.
Students will be able to utilize a four square graphic organizer to plan descriptive techniques in an informative/expository essay.

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A Writing Process Approach to Using MY Access!: Part I Thinking

By sbinckes
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plan: Prewriting No Comments

Target Grade Level: All levels
Keys Concepts: Writing Process, prewriting, drafting, revising, editing

When I first began teaching in the 1990s, “Writing Process” or “The Writing Process” was familiar jargon in the language arts classroom. However, it wasn’t until I went through a California Writing Project Summer Invitational that I began to fully understand, internalize and embrace a process approach to teaching writing.

A few years later, when I started working as a teacher consultant in school districts throughout Southern California, the mere mention of “Writing Process” was sure to spark a heated debate. Teachers loved it or hated it. Some saw process writing as the only way to teach; others saw it as a waste of time and a “feel good” approach that didn’t accomplish anything. I quickly assessed that those who had a strong aversion to process writing simply didn’t understand it, and I enjoyed the challenge of showing them what process writing actually is. (more…)

Celebrating African-American Writers

By Dr. Madeline Pan
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans: Literary 1 Comment

Teaching Poetic Devices in Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”
Target Grade Level: Middle School
Time: 2-3 class periods
Key Concepts: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Poetic Devices, Writing Process

Contributed by Dr. Madeline Pan. Dr. Madeline Pan has made a career of teaching English to students at all levels. As a district and school administrator, her emphasis was on providing professional development on research-based writing instruction to teachers at the middle and high school level. She thanks the 8th grade students in Red Clay, Delaware and Milwaukee, Wisconsin for their enthusiasm and well-written analytical responses for “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes.

Teacher’s Reflection. Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” is a poem for all ages and a delight to teach because students “get it” very quickly. They like it at first, love it soon after, and quote it throughout the year. Better yet, they don’t balk at writing a literary analysis about the poem, even writing about it very well, regardless of whether they have had experience writing a literary analysis or not. (more…)

Lesson Plan: Character Development in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

By qualtic
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans: Literary No Comments

Duration: 2 class periods of 45-50 minutes

Printable: MY Access! Lesson Plan : Character Development in A Christmas Carol

By reading how writers have analyzed Scrooge’s responses to events, students can generate their own ideas and begin evaluating their own analysis of how Scrooge responds to challenges. (more…)

“Favorite Person” Lesson Plan, Middle School (6-8), Expository Writing

By Rachel Loeper
Posted in Because Writing Matters, Because Writing Matters... At Home, Author Series: Interviews, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans: Expository No Comments

MY Access! LogoDuration: 2 class periods of 45-55 minutes
Adaptation: Upper Elementary (4-5), “A Person You Admire” Prompt, Expository Writing
Printable: “Favorite Person” Lesson Plan, Middle School (6-8), Expository Writing

Favorite Person Prompt:

We all have a favorite person, someone who we like or respect more than anyone else. Think about the person in your life you consider your favorite. What is this person like? What does this person do to make him or her your favorite?
Write an essay about this person explaining what he or she is like and the things that he or she does that makes him or her so special to you. (more…)