A tutorial on zine-making: Click here.
Downloadable sketchbook for students to create their own zines: Click here.
English version, click here. Spanish version, click here.
VDOE English SOL Conferences 2021 (recordings of presentations, handouts, and lesson plans):
August 16 (recording) and 17 (recording), 2021 Focus: Grades 6-8
August 18 (recording) and 19 (recording), 2021 Focus: Grades 9-12
Handouts and Lesson Plans:
VDOE Folder with presentation handouts, click here.
Teaching Fiction Lessons, click here.
Teaching Nonfiction Lessons, click here.
Click here to download the template for the Question Formulation Technique.
This free site provides K-12 paired reading passages along with discussion questions. The site is an excellent source of content passages across all curriculum areas. Passages can be sorted by content and grade level.
The New York Times creates lessons pairing current events with fiction and poetry. Suggested activities engage students in meaningful comparison/contrast discussions.
Writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing-ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. Plus publishing!
For rubrics click here.
These lessons help students learn digital skills while exploring ELA concepts like reading, writing, and speaking.
Revise and Edit a Piece of Writing
Collaborate to Tell a Story
Argue a Position on a Public Policy Issue
Analyze Book Characters and Cast Them in a Movie
Compare and Contrast in Google Slides
Annotate Text in Google Docs
The Comprehensive Literacy Webinar Series focuses on best practices in literacy instruction and resources available to school divisions. Through the diverse expertise of our partners and presenters, the Virginia Department of Education's goal is to offer timely, research-based, and instructionally sound sessions to Virginia educators. NEW!!! "Integrating the Four Strands in a Hybrid Model" and "Understand Scoring."
Teacher Webinars and Other Online Sessions: Click here. Access past webinars, upcoming webinars, and other online learning resources.
AP Instructional Resources for Any Learning Environment: Click here. An overview of online resources and classroom tools at-a-glance.
Discipline Specific Section: Click here. AP Teacher Week 2021 was a series of live events for AP teachers that took place in August 2021. The recorded sessions are now available on demand. These sessions provide best practices, by discipline, for using the digital resources in AP Classroom. Each session focuses on a specific resource:
AP Daily Videos
Topic Questions
Progress Checks and the Progress Dashboard
AP Question Bank
AP Classroom User Guides (hot links):