SRA FLEX LITERACY

™ IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE

The Fifteen-Day Project Lesson

Each fifteen-day project follows a familiar and efficient classroom routine sequence:

Engage, Prepare, Research, Write, Present, and Reflect and Evaluate.

Engage and Prepare

The first days in each project, engage students by having them watch a brief

background video introducing the topic and by allowing them to explore and discuss

academic vocabulary and Essential Questions. Students assemble Project Portfolios

and discuss what will be expected of them. The teacher presents and models the

writing frame. Students are organized into project teams to begin discussing their

project action plans.

Research

Students create Foldables® research organizers and research logs to organize

research. Project teams conduct their research using both the Internet and print

sources. Whole-class and team activities help refine students’ research skills by

helping students learn to evaluate websites and make sense of text features and

details in their research, among other critical 21st Century Skills.

Write

Students work independently to complete their individual writing assignments, and

they collaborate with their team to write what will become their group presentation.

Activities are organized around the steps of the Writing Process, and instructional mini-

lessons are provided to improve student understanding of the Six Traits of Writing.

Steps of the Writing Process

• Prewrite

• Draft

• Revise

• Edit

• Publish

Six Traits of Writing

• Word Choice 

• Organization

• Voice

• Sentence Fluency

• Ideas

• Conventions

Present

Project teams complete the publication and presentation of their projects. These

presentations incorporate elements of technology. The teacher can adapt

presentations to accommodate the technology resources available. Connection

activities explicitly teach students speaking and listening skills to make students more

effective presenters and audience members.

Reflect and Evaluate

Each project ends with activities that have students discuss and evaluate their

responses to the project’s Essential Questions focusing on how their knowledge and