ELA: Curriculum Resources

English Language Arts Block Guidance

Text Complexity Correlation Chart: Rigby vs. Leveled Readers

Phonemic Awareness

Heggerty is used to support Phonemic Awareness, these materials are available in print for K-2 teachers.   Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and orally manipulate individual phonemes without the support of print.   

 Additional Heggerty information and videos can be found in this slide deck. 

Phonics

Phonics is the relationship between the sounds of spoken language and the letters or groups of letters or syllables of the written language.

95% Core Phonics Program- Grades K-1

95% Phonics Core Program Scope and Sequence

95Phonics Core.mov

Video  can also be found on the 95  Phonics Core Program Website. Click Here to visit site

High Frequency Words/Sight Words for Kindergarten - Third Grade

BESD Reading Series 2021  Recordings and Resources

BESD Writing Series 2021  Recordings and Resources

Core Phonics Screener

Survey Tool

Get Into Reading (1).mov

Example Videos

6 - 8 StudySync

StudySync is designed t to engage every student, through rigorous and culturally relevant content.  

Assessments

ELA Resources:

Depth of Knowledge and Levels of Thinking:

Language Arts Contact Information:

Ana GutierrezExecutive Director of Curriculum & AssessmentAGutierrez@besd33.orgTelephone Extension: 3453
Dr. Julie CaseLiteracy Directorjcase@besd33.org Telephone Extension: 3477
Katie PrestonCurriculum / ELD CoordinatorKPreston@besd33.orgTelephone Extension: 3455 

If you are a BESD teacher and need online access to any of these programs, please contact the Integration Support Team, integration@besd33.org. 

If you are a BESD teachers and need hard copies of the TEs or the classroom materials, contact your school librarian.