Introduction to PLN

1. Welcome
Please complete the 3x5 card
with your name, position and 3
things we should know about
you.
Find a partner for the day.
Sit with another pair.

2. Penn Literacy
Network
Critical Reading & Writing Strategies
Across the Curriculum

3. Today’s Agenda
Welcome
Hall of Fame
PLN Video & Introduction: Mr. Ortman
Literacy Factors: Mrs. Barone
Common Core Standards Connection: Mrs.Gehrens
Break
Dr. Kidder’s Letter: Mrs. Barone
Reflection/Assignment: Mrs. Geisel

4. PLN Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGKusA-
SYpY&feature=youtu.be

5. Penn Literacy Network
As secondary educators we are
presented with the task of preparing our
students for the high stakes world of state
assessments and ultimately being
autonomous learners. Our students need
to be able to create meaning from the
various texts that they are exposed to in
all of their content areas. They will be
required to read and write critically to
analyze, synthesize and generate
knowledge that is related to the real

6. PLN Participants
Participants in the PLN Workshops will
have the opportunity to examine and
explore effective strategies, concepts, and
applications designed to increase reading
and writing across all content areas. We
will present the content of the workshop in
the PLN Framework. Day One of the
Workshop will focus on the research and
rational for the PLN Framework .

7. DO NOW!
List what you believe to be the 5
most influential factors for increasing
literacy.
Share and discuss with a partner
when you are finished.

8. 5 Most Influential Factors in
Literacy
1. Mother’s Level of Education
2. Socio-Economic Status
3. Amount/Exposure to Literacy
4. Vocabulary
5. Reading Level
(ETS Univ. Of NC Study)
What can we control? Discuss with your partner and be
ready to share.

9. What do we have control over?
Amount/Exposure to Literacy
Vocabulary
Reading Level

10. Common Core Standards
Connection
What’s the shift?
Share with your partner and then with group (2 minutes)
National Reading Association’s Recommendations for
Reading is 90 minutes a day
The PLN and PIIC model address the Common Core
Standards

11. Article
Reading for the 21st Century
Adolescent Literacy Teaching and
Learning
Highlight 5 Important Ideas (3 minutes)
Discuss with your partner:
What do our kids need to do?
What do we need to do?

12. Break Time
Be back in 10

13. What can we do to increase our
students’ interaction with texts?
• Choose something interesting
• Create an active reading
assignment (highlight and note)
• Allow opportunities for focused
discussion
• Teacher scripting with lots of
visuals
• Short lectures 5-7 minutes in

14. More We Can Do!
• Allow time to think, talk and process
• Need to show evidence of processing
accountability
• Write to summarize information
• Long term memory
• Depth of understanding
• Use of vocabulary

15. Text Rendering
• Dr. Kidder Letter
• Highlight any unfamiliar words.
• Underline ideas that are important.
• Note any questions/thoughts/ideas.
• Be ready to share.

16. Ticket Out!
Friendly Letter to Dr. Kidder
Summarize your understanding in 5 lines.
Be prepared to share.
Builds Fluency
Improves Revision
Allows information to go to long term memory.
Creates a depth of understanding.
Encourages use of vocabulary.

17. Thank You!
Please complete the Reflection and Pause handout.
Final words from Ruth.