Deep Dive into the Up-Dated Curriculum with
Literacy Connections
District Learning Day
Grades 3-5
August 6, 2015
Do Now
Complete the following
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List various stories that can be aligned
with a HPELW lesson
Norms
• Be present and engaged.
• Be respectful of differences in perspective while
challenging each other productively and respectively.
• Monitor “air time.”
• Make the most of the time we have.
• Stay focused on students.
Objective
What will participants:
• Know: How to embed literacy lessons and activities within
the HPELW classroom
• Understand: How to introduce Journey’s stories within the
classroom lesson
• Do as a result of this presentation; Teachers will be able to
refer to the updated curriculum and aligned Journey’s
materials for classroom instruction
Literacy in Physical Education
Physical education and literacy — two words that for
too long have been disconnected.
But are they really? How many times in your career
have you heard a student say, “I just don’t like to
read,” “I’m not good at math,” or “I am just not
athletic.”
Literacy in Physical Education
Content literacy and the traditional
idea of literacy are not mutually exclusive.
In fact, the common notion of educating the whole child
should probably be updated to reflect attaining
the total “literacies” of the child.
Shape America, 2014
Section 1: Grades 3-5
• How do I use this curriculum?
• Embedding literacy activities that aligns to the
District’s vision
The HPELW Curriculum and Literacy Activities
• Get into groups of 5’s
• Thumb through the grade- level Curriculum Guides
and find a literacy activity.
• Identify the grade level, timeframe in which the
lesson is to be taught and the story aligned to the
lesson
• Demonstrate the activity
Section 2: “Aligning the PE or Health
lesson to Journey’s reading materials
•In small groups, identify 2-stories that relate to
HPELW standards
•Provide feedback on the story title(s)
•Cite implications for use
Practice introducing the Story
• Reinforce stories identified by classroom teachers,
• Relate that same story to Health or Physical Education
teaching concepts
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Activate prior knowledge
Review the story
Identify difficult concepts and vocabulary.
Relate the story to standards and activity
Allow students to create a skill, task or routine based on
the story
Q-A Embedded Literacy
• What do you think will be the easiest process to
embed literacy activities?
• What will be the most difficult?
• What else will you need to learn/do/ or have
prior to implementing these activities?
Objectives Review
What will participants:
• Know: How to embed literacy lessons and activities
within the HPELW classroom
• Understand: How to introduce Journey’s stories within
the classroom lesson
• Do as a result of this presentation; Teachers will be able
to refer to the updated curriculum and aligned Journey’s
materials for classroom instruction
• Refer to and align the “Journey’s” reading material to
applicable nugget health lessons
Next steps and activities for follow up
Meet with Grade-Level Teams to identify stories and
implementation timeframes
Develop a calendar that reflects implementation dates of
related stories
Reflection:
One minute paper on post-it
• Jot down your “Take-Aways”
• Consider what you need to know and be able to do to
successfully implement what you have learned in this
session.
– What is still unclear?
– What professional development or additional
resources do you need?
Remember
It is never too check your Curriculum Guide
regarding additional literacy activities and
strategies!
Closing-Ticket Out-The Door
• Jot down one (1) Journey’s Story and one (1) literacy activity
that you learned today.
District Contact
• Contact Cassandra R. Turner, PhD
[email protected]
901-416-3662