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Instructional resources are designed to align with district curriculum, prioritized standards, and support the PLC process and daily classroom instruction. Teachers will find instructional tools, lesson resources, assessment supports, and exemplars intended to promote consistency, instructional clarity, and student-centered learning while allowing for professional judgment and creativity in the classroom. All instructional resources can be found online in Schoology Teacher Groups.
Literacy Skills Focus
Resources emphasize the development of core literacy skills, including close reading, academic vocabulary, writing across genres, textual analysis, research, and effective speaking and listening. Instructional supports are grounded in best practices for disciplinary literacy and are designed to help students build reading stamina, think critically about texts, and communicate ideas clearly and effectively across content areas. Research-based literacy strategies are regularly shared with teachers to facilitate strong reading instruction in all secondary ELA classrooms.
Purposeful_Annotation_Menu.pdfAugust 2026 Literacy Resource
Purposeful annotation helps students become active, engaged readers by giving them a clear reason for interacting with a text. Rather than simply highlighting or marking a passage, students annotate with a specific purpose connected to what they are learning—such as identifying key ideas, tracking an author’s argument, noticing patterns, asking questions, or recording their thinking.
When annotation is focused and intentional, it encourages students to slow down, monitor their understanding, and think more deeply about what they read. It also creates a visible record of their thinking that can support class discussion, analysis, and writing.
The August Secondary Literacy Resource provides teachers with practical strategies for teaching and modeling purposeful annotation across content areas, emphasizing that effective annotation is not about how much students mark a text. It is about the thinking behind those marks.
Fix_Up_Strategies_Teacher_Handout.pdfSeptember 2026 Literacy Resource #1
Fix-Up Strategies
Fix-Up Strategies
Fix-up strategies give students practical tools to use when reading becomes difficult or meaning breaks down. Instead of simply continuing through a text they do not understand, students learn to recognize confusion and take purposeful steps to restore meaning, such as rereading, slowing down, using context, breaking apart unfamiliar words, making connections, or asking questions.
Teaching these strategies helps students become more independent and resilient readers. Over time, students develop greater awareness of their own comprehension and learn that struggling with a challenging text is a normal part of reading, and that they have strategies they can use to work through that difficulty.
The first September Secondary Literacy Resource provides teachers with practical ways to model and teach fix-up strategies across content areas, emphasizing that strong readers do not understand everything immediately. They notice when meaning breaks down and know what to do next.
Morphology - Helping Students Unlock Words.pdfSeptember 2026 Literacy Resource #2
Morphology
Morphology
Morphology is the study of the meaningful parts that make up words, including prefixes, roots, and suffixes. By learning to recognize and understand these word parts, students can use what they already know to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words and build connections among related words.
Morphology instruction strengthens vocabulary development while also giving students a strategy they can apply independently when they encounter complex academic language. It is especially powerful when students explore meaningful word parts within vocabulary drawn from the texts and content they are already studying.
The second September Secondary Literacy Resource provides teachers with an accessible, classroom-ready approach to incorporating morphology into instruction across content areas, emphasizing that vocabulary development is not simply about learning individual words. It is about giving students tools to unlock the meanings of many words they will encounter in the future.
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