Specifications include, but are not limited to: video production company to record, edit, and produce a series of approximately eleven (11) videos that showcase the Interdisciplinary Literacy Practices (ILPs) associated with the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Reading and Writing. These videos will serve as a tool for teachers to consider the ways they can make explicit connections to the ILPs in their instruction. The videos will be published with the Reading and Writing standards resources available on KYStandards.org.; The videos shall demonstrate (1) the literacy-rich environments created across grade levels and content areas when students are given daily opportunities to engage in the ILPs and (2) how ILPs can enrich implementation of all KAS across all grade levels and content areas.; The KAS for Reading and Writing was adopted in March 2019. The ILPs were incorporated into the standards document at that time. ILPs are common student practices that detail the overarching goals for literacy instruction for K-12 students across the state. While teachers have the responsibility of creating literacy-rich environments and vibrant learning experiences, the ILPs (listed below) represent student actions to practice the behaviors of a literate citizen: 1. Recognize that text is anything that communicates a message. 2. Employ, develop and refine schema to understand and create text. 3. View literacy experiences as transactional, interdisciplinary and transformational. 4. Utilize receptive and expressive language arts to better understand self, others and the world. 5. Apply strategic practices, with scaffolding and then independently, to approach new literacy tasks. 6. Collaborate with others to create new meaning. 7. Utilize digital resources to learn and share with others. 8. Engage in specialized, discipline-specific literacy practices. 9. Apply high level cognitive processes to think deeply and critically about text. 10. Develop a literacy identity that promotes lifelong learning.
