TEKS/TAKS Support

Library TAKS Support Plan

School Year 2010-2011

 

 

Overview/Timeline

Activity

Date to be completed

1. Examine TAKS data with administrator(s) and/or grade level/subject area teachers

September 18, 2010

2. Target 2-3 TAKS objectives that can be affected by the library program

Ongoing

3. Develop lessons/activities that address the TEKS for your targeted TAKS objectives

Ongoing

4. Communicate your plan to your school community

September 18, 2010

5. Teach lessons in collaboration with grade level/subject area teachers

Ongoing

6. Evaluate your plan

May 2011

 

List administrators/faculty consultants:

 

Brenda Kirby- TAKS Coordinator

Donna Barnett- Specialist

Keri Johnson- Assistant Principal

 

Grade Level

Targeted TAKS Objective

Focus TEKS

 

3rd

Reading Objective 1, 2

Basic understanding and literary elements

3.9 F  make and explain inferences from texts such as determining important ideas, causes and effects, making predictions, and drawing conclusions and

3.9 I represent text information in different ways, including story maps, graphs, and charts

 

4th

Reading Objective 1, 4

Basic understanding and critical thinking

4.9 F  determine a text's main (or major) ideas and how those ideas are supported with details (4-8);

(H)  draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience (4-8);

 

5th

Reading Objective 1, 4

Basic understanding and critical thinking

5.9

(F)  determine a text's main (or major) ideas and how those ideas are supported with details (4-8);

(G)  paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas (4-8);

 (H)  draw inferences such as conclusions or generalizations and support them with text evidence and experience (4-8);

 

6th

Reading Objective 1, 4

Basic understanding and critical thinking

6.10 A

(G)  paraphrase and summarize text to recall, inform, or organize ideas (4-8);

(D)  synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Library lessons/activities that will teach the focus TEKS (there should be at least one lesson/activity for each of the focus TEKS listed above):

 

Lessons from the Reading Comprehension Toolkit to be done with all TAKS grade levels with grade level appropriate text.

 

Read, Write, and Talk

Infer with Text Clues

Read with a Question in Mind

Wrap Your mind Around the Big Ideas

Target Key information

Distinguish Your Thinking from the Author’s

Construct Main Ideas from Supporting Details

 

3rd Grade Literary Elements

Story Map Quilting using various genres

 

 

How will you communicate your plan to your school community?

My TAKS support plan will be placed on the library website and the wiki.