ELA Practice #3

This template created by Saavas (formerly Pearson) for the myPerspectives curriculum resource can be used or modified to assist students when tracking evidence across multiple texts.

This article explains the quad text set framework and how it can assist content teachers in building students’ background knowledge, increase their reading volume, and incorporate complex texts into instruction.

The Digital SAT® Suite and Classroom Practice: English Language Arts/ Literacy aims to inform secondary English language arts teachers as well as teachers in other subject areas of evidence-based instructional practices supporting college and career readiness for all students. 

Think-alouds have been described as "eavesdropping on someone's thinking." With this strategy, teachers verbalize aloud while reading a selection orally. Their verbalizations include describing things they're doing as they read to monitor their comprehension. The purpose of the think-aloud strategy is to model for students how skilled readers construct meaning from a text.

Educators can find a series of lessons from ReadWriteThink on supporting students' ability to determine the meaning of words within the context of reading.

This Strategy Guide summarizes research and offers strategies for implementation.

This site provides a comprehensive set of articles and essays that may serve as mentor texts for student writing.

In this position statement, NCTE examines three core themes that make media education fundamental to teaching and learning in ELA education.

This NCTE statement provides guidelines for educators and policy makers regarding effective reading instruction aimed at improving skills while considering all that the reader brings to the experience.

This article illustrates the use of familiar children's literature to introduce students to literary theory as an analytical tool.

In partnership with #DisruptTexts, this resource provides learning guides for eight texts in alignment with the program's four core principles. 

This handout created by Miami University's Howe Center for Writing Excellence includes key elements of rhetorical analysis.

This resource includes open source sample text sets created by and for educators that are available for both middle and high school levels. 

This site helps students annotate using captions, drawings, and other types of mark-making.

This short article provides five steps for gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing textual evidence.

Word Generation emphasizes 21st century learning goals, such as using academic language, developing an argument, reasoning analytically, reading to find evidence, reviewing data, discussing various perspectives, engaging in debate, and expressing well-reasoned positions in writing. Free sign-up required to access materials.

This professional development module focuses on the Text Set Project: Designing and Integrating Expert Packs. The training is for teachers, those who support teachers, librarians, and media specialists to build understanding and experience with Common Core State Standards (CCSS)-aligned instruction and materials.

This resource, created by a veteran educator, presents a detailed, step-by-step guide to preparing, implementing, and assessing close reading lessons.

This toolbox includes specific instruction for a wide variety of thinking routines categorized by thinking types. 

From the Stanford History Education Group, these lessons support the development of civic online reasoning. Free registration is required.

In this blog, author Jennifer Fletcher provides insights on supporting students in developing rhetorical thinking. Resources are also provided.