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Beaufort County School District (BCSD) is committed to providing an effective literacy program so that all students become literate across all content areas. The foundational literacy skills including phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension form a literacy foundation. However, technology advances are changing the way people communicate and work in organizations (Tapscott & Williams, 2006). Therefore, in addition to foundational literacy skills, students must be digitally literate. As noted by Weare and Lin (2000), the Internet has had a profound influence on life in the 21st Century. Students should be able to effectively navigate the Internet and leverage its power. However, literacy in the 21st Century goes beyond Internet searches and retrieval of information. Our students must be able to safely, ethically, and effectively use technology to be fully literate in the 21st Century. In addition, students should be literate and able to read, write, listen, speak and use language across and within content areas. For example, students must be literate in the arts and design concepts (Pink, 2006).
The BCSD Instructional Services Department (ISD) team, along with a District Literacy Team consisting of principals, English language arts chairpersons, literacy coaches, literacy teachers and consultants, developed the Beaufort County School District 2013-2016 Literacy Plan. The plan was created as comprehensive balanced literacy plan. The BCSD team modeled the plan based on the South Carolina Literacy Matters: Creating District and School Literacy Plans, which was developed in 2011 in unison with the 2012 state literacy plan Literacy Matters. In addition, an adapted version of the structure utilized within the ...

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... below) for the effective use of a data analysis framework including the tools of Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

Instructional Shifts Assessment Shifts

PK-5, Balancing Informational & Literary
Texts

A balance of authentic informational and literary texts

6-12 Building Knowledge in the Disciplines Knowledge-based questions about discipline- specific, informational text

Staircase of Complexity Higher level of text complexity appropriate to grade level

Text-Based Answers Evidence from text, including paired passages, to make an argument, inform or explain; short, focused research

Academic Vocabulary Tier Two words which can be discerned from the text

Evaluation

An annual summary report of the progress accomplished through implementation of Beaufort County School District’s literacy plan will be completed by the District Literacy Leadership Team,

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