Mar 31, 2019 - This is the first and second lesson in Unit 1. As noted in the introduction, AIR provides scaffolding differentiated for ELL/MLL students at the entering (EN), emerging (EM), transitioning (TR), and...
Apr 13, 2017 - Workshop 12: Reviewing skills needed for non-fiction reading and formulating theses, and developing teacher-written models and graphic organizers that involves sentence combining and templates for...
Apr 13, 2017 - Workshop 11: Social Studies Components – Building/Activating background knowledge and analyzing World History and U.S. History texts, Civics and Government, Economics, and Geography readings,...
Apr 13, 2017 - Workshop 10: What are the Common Core instructional shifts in Reading/Writing & Social Studies? How do we see the instructional shifts reflected in sample assessment questions?
Lesson Plan...
Apr 13, 2017 - This module begins, in Workshop 10, with a teacher workshop intended to provide more specific depth in the CCSS instructional shifts in ELA and History/Social Studies, and discussion of the...
Apr 13, 2017 - Workshop 6: Developing writing skills in response to non-fiction literacy materials, i.e., how to identify main ideas and key themes for interpretation and analysis, including citing claims and...
Apr 13, 2017 - Workshop 5: Developing reading comprehension skills for non-fiction literacy materials, utilizing excerpts from sample test materials and identifying main ideas and key themes for interpretation and...
Apr 13, 2017 - Workshop 4: Vocabulary and Background Knowledge – Effective practices for choosing and introducing words and for reinforcing vocabulary learning; and building/activating background knowledge and...
Apr 13, 2017 - This module contains three separate student lessons, providing concrete examples of how the CCSS ELA shifts unfold in the classroom. Workshop 4 is a student lesson exemplifying ELA strategies...
Dec 20, 2018 - In this Grade 12 Literary Criticism Module, students read and analyze Toni Morrison’s novel Song of Solomon, as they continue to build the skills required to craft strong informative essays and...
Sep 16, 2015 - In this 12th grade module, students read, discuss, and analyze four literary texts, focusing on the development of interrelated central ideas within and across the texts. The mains texts in this...
Sep 16, 2015 - The Grades 9-10 Writing Module comprises three separate units that provide in-depth instruction on one type of writing: argument, informative, and narrative. Each unit may be implemented...
Dec 20, 2018 - In this 12th grade Extension Module, students can go deeper into analyzing arguments, as they outline, analyze, and evaluate the claims that Michelle Alexander makes in The New Jim Crow: Mass...
Sep 16, 2015 - In Module 12.3, students engage in an inquiry-based, iterative research process that serves as the basis of a culminating research-based argument paper. Building on work with evidence-based analysis...
Mar 10, 2016 - Over the course of Module 12.2, students practice and refine their informative writing and speaking and listening skills through formative assessments, and apply these skills in the Mid-Unit and End-...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this End-of-Unit Assessment, students complete the final drafts of their narrative essays. Students incorporate basic grammar, proper hyphenation conventions, and correct spelling. Students also...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students peer review each other’s narrative essays to ensure alignment to W.11-13.3.a-f, and revise their drafts based on the feedback. Students learning is assessed via the...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue to revise their narrative essays. Students review the importance of using precise words and phrases, telling details, and sensory language to convey a vivid picture...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue revising the drafts of their narrative essays. Students first review the purpose and use of structural techniques. Through discussion and examination of one...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students continue revising the drafts of their narrative essays. Students first review the purpose and use of narrative techniques. Through discussion and examination of one effective...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students begin to revise the drafts of their narrative essays. Students first review the purpose and components of an effective introduction. Through discussion and examination of an...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this first lesson of the unit, students continue the process of drafting a narrative essay. Students draw upon the material they wrote during 12.1.1 Lessons 2, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 28 to develop...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this final lesson of the unit, the End-of-Unit Assessment, students compose a multi-paragraph response to the following prompt: Analyze the effectiveness of the structure Silko uses in her...
Jan 26, 2016 - In this lesson, students conclude their reading of “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit.” Students read paragraphs 25–32 (from “The old stories demonstrate the interrelationships that the Pueblo...
