WICOR

Objectives

• Identify components of WICOR
• Identify strategies that align w/ WICOR to be used in your content area

WHAT DOES WICOR STAND FOR?

• Writing
• Inquiry
• Collaboration
• Organization
• Reading to Comprehend

Writing

• Quickwrite: How have you incorporated reading & writing strategies into your lesson plans? (2 minutes)

Quick writes

• Use at the beginning, middle, or end of class
• Takes 2-5 minutes
• Give students short, open-ended statements, or sentence starters

Additional Writing Strategies

• Cornell Notes
• Writing Story Problems
• Dialogue Journals
• Reflection writing
• 4 Corners Summary (model later)

Inquiry

• "In the classroom, wondering should be as highly valued as knowing." - Rutherford & Alhgren
• Problem solving, resolving doubt, learning to ask the right questions

Inquiry Strategies

• Interactive Notebooks
• Philosophical Chairs & Socratic Seminar
• Costa's Levels of Questioning
• Student created questions on Cornell Notes

Collaboration

• Students who can work together become adults who can work together
• Quick write: Write about collaboration techniques you use in your classroom. (2 min)

Turn & Talk

• Please read your quick write with your neighbor
• How can collaboration be used as a tool in your classroom, and specifically your content?

Collaboration Strategies

• Brain Dump
• Give & Get
• Link Up (model)
• Speed Dating
• Who Can, I Can squares review
• 30 Second Experts (explain

Organization

• Agendas, calendars
• Unit Planning Sheets
• Thinking Maps
• Interactive notebooks
• Foldables

Reading

• Create opportunities for authentic reading
• Search for current event connections
• www.vox.com/vox-sentences
• StudentNewsDaily (extra time-4th)

Reading strategies

• KWL charts
• Save the Last Word
• SOAPS/APPARTS
• Guided Reading Questions
• Key Word Maps
• 30 Second Experts / Jigsaw

homework

• Implement 1 new strategy into your team lessons this week
• Check your email for link to AVID folder w/ strategies

Summary

• write your summary on a post-it note
• How will you, as a content team, utilize WICOR strategies in your KCT time & lesson planning?

4 Corners Summary

• Place your post-it notes on the corners of your group's paper
• Write a NEW summary combining the ideas of the entire group