Student Empowerment Program Study Guide 3rd Grade Response to Literature - CT

LICENSED EDUCATORS: Topical Compatibility: Increased parent and community involvement, early intervention to drop-out prevention, increase understanding of ELA assessments, improve motivation and engagement, character education, emotional intelligence, leadership. Please develop portfolios, recorded sessions, art for word images etc. Create portfolios to reflect assignments prepared through the ELA study guide as well as your performance outcomes. Portfolios should exhibit: instructional artifacts; personal reflective practices; acknowledgement of program goals; and personal awareness of core competence of resources.

W. Calvin Anderson, MEd. and SEP provides in-service educational enhancement, drop-out and truancy prevention; parent involvement and school articulation by reinforcing academic and youth development readiness programming.

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This program is intended to motivate and to support Children from 5-10 years old (K- 4th grades) in learning critical thinking and grade-level performance standards for school promotion. People of all ages can help because all children who trust their peers, older siblings and friends need to read out loud and think out aloud with poetry, schoolwork, newspapers, magazines, religious studies and everything they view for fun. After all, this is one of the few ways that we get to know them as independent thinkers and formal learners to get ahead in our complex global society.

This SEP home and school study unit helps young learners to engage the work of a young poet named, TyVion Harris and think. When you follow the study guide for the lesson young learner will then “learn how-to respond to an author and his literature” j This kind of English Language Arts practice activity will serve to increase critical thinking skills as well as viewing, listening, response to poetry, and familiarity with grade level expectations at school in English for everyone involved.

The added-value of this SEP educational DVD is successful when you use it over and over again and make certain that loving and caring older siblings, family members and concerned friends also help and even learn to present and “teach” younger learner this program. “Each one, teach one…” was once the primary mode of education in the U.S. schools wherein all ages studied in the same small quarters. We invite any and all of you who are reading this to teach this lesson after you carefully review each section and study it for program goals and your own compatible ideas just like in school. Sincerely, W. Calvin Anderson, MEd

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Let’s Review Sections of the DVD: Parent Involvement Author Studies Responding to Poetry 3rd Grade Learning Standards Reading Aloud and Sharing Ideas Quiz Questions for Practicing Testing

SEP Goals The Student Empowerment Program in this application of the Humanities Review System is devoted to meeting the educational and developmental of children 5 to 10 years old to flourish in critical thinking and reading, viewing, listen and speaking.

The educational DVD is a supplement to a lesson. Students will: 1) listen, view and read for enjoyment; 2) foster an appreciation for reading for pleasure; 3) increase in developing a basic or advanced reading vocabulary; 4) read aloud and think out loud and state the order of TyVion’s ideas and the information; and 5) read the State English Language Arts standards and “predict” that the process of question and answer is the same as in their 2nd to 4th grade English class in school.

Motivation Poet TyVion Harris is an African American male who is 8 years old.

African American males in many major cities and educational communities suffer from poor self esteem, poor grades, illiteracy and high drop out rates.

Early efforts by all ages who can read to increase educational appreciation of young learners could prevent a lack of engagement and student achievement in later years.

Can we learn about life watching, listening to and reading poetry?

READ TYVION’S POEM OUT LOUD AND TALK ABOUT IT NOW

End of Poet TyVion’s Sections

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW, QUIZ?

What is the main idea of the poem?

a) Self Awareness b) Changing his name c) Bragging about being a smart kid.

Correct Answer Self-Awareness Yes. This poem by TyVion Harris aka "Young Tveezy" is about self-awareness and how he does life. He believes in his future. He believes in doing for the youth of the USA and the world. He believes in doing for his family and for preparing a financial future. He says, "I am tveezy I am there if you need me".

Wrong Answer Changing his name.

No. This answer is not correct the poem is not about why he changed his name even though Tyvion Harris is also known as "Young Tveezy".

Wrong Answer Bragging about being a smart kid.

No. The main idea of the poem, "I do it for the future" is to share self-awareness and a personal sense of responsibility and accountability.

ANSWER

THESE QUESTIONS ALSO!

Author Studies: Poet TyVion Harris a. Does TyVion Harris capture a reader’s interest? b. Does TyVion Harris develop his own “point of view”? c. Does TyVion Harris demonstrate an understanding of how school helps his swag ? c. Does TyVion say, “he makes connections in his poetry and that everything that he writes about is real?” d. Does TyVion Harris make his poem, I Do It For The Future connect with his own life? e. Does TyVion Harris Make his poetry connect to what he knows about the world? f. Does TyVion Harris Make his poetry make sense with a ending, beginning, middle, and end? e. Does TyVion Harris tell you a lot about his ideas through writing and listening to him?

GET YOUR DICTIONARY

LOOK UP ALL OF THE WORDS!

VOCABULARY & DEFINITIONS Future

Action Verbs

Youth Schoolwork Good Geography Dress

Swagger

Nouns

Math Business

Family

Adjectives

Ohio

Language Arts

Focus

Poet

Spoken Word

Character

Thinker

Poetic License

Rap

Negative Positive Author Idea

Rhyme

Teamwork

Verse

Love

Parent Involvement

CRCT

Independent

KNOW ALL OF YOUR 3RD GRADE ELA – READING COMPREHENSION PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR

THE STATE OF GEORGIA!

COMPREHENSION ELA3R3 The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text. The student

a. Reads a variety of texts for information and pleasure. b. Makes predictions from text content. c. Generates questions before, during, and after reading. d. Distinguishes fact from opinion. e. Recognizes plot, setting, and character within text, and compares and contrasts these elements between texts.. f. Makes judgments and inferences about setting, characters, and events and supports them with evidence from the text. g. Summarizes text content. h. Interprets information from illustrations, diagrams, charts, graphs, and graphic organizers. i. Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences. j. Identifies and infers main idea and supporting details.

COMPREHENSION ELA3R3 – cont’d

k. Self-monitors comprehension to clarify meaning. l. Identifies and infers cause-and-effect relationships and draws conclusions. m. Recalls explicit facts and infers implicit facts. n. Identifies the basic elements of a variety of genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry). o. Uses titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings to locate information quickly and accurately and to preview text. p. Recognizes the author’s purpose. q. Formulates and defends an opinion about a text. r. Applies dictionary, thesaurus, and glossary skills to determine word meanings.

State of Georgia English Language Arts Quality Core Curriculum (QCC) GO ONLINE TO THIS ADDRESS: http://gadoe.georgiastandards.org/english .aspx

State of Georgia English Language ArtsQuality Core Curriculum (QCC) Reading and Literature, Writing, Conventions, and Speaking Listening, Viewing Reading Across the Curriculum

STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …

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SEP READINESS PROGRAM

TyVion is Ready-to-Learn

STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …

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SEP TRACKING PROGRAM

Our SEP “More Luv” Interactive Parent Involvement program • Work with your child to improve student achievement • Track your child’s weekly progress for the school year • Look at the school calendar and know the important test schedules and ways to help • Monitor progress and reduce the stress and “high-pressure” for your young learner by being a “team” to solve problems!

STUDENT EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM INVITES YOU …ANSWER

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RESEARCH & REFERENCES

The Student Empowerment Program c 1992 was founded by W. Calvin Anderson, MEd. (SEP). SEP has served to improve student achievement in colleges, universities, K-12, non-profit, faith based organizations and charter schools and across five states including New York, North Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

For more information please contact Calvin Anderson at (770)912-8569 or wcalvinanderson@yahoo.com.

Calvin has a BA in Philosophy & Political Science, and MS in Administration & Supervision and is a candidate for an MS in Instructional Design For Online Learning (June 2011).