ELA

Curriculum

• New Visions - ELA - Comprehensive and detailed curriculum that includes unit and lesson plans, pacing guides, and student-facing materials such as handouts and practice problems.

  • • • Provides students with notes and prior classwork related to the curriculum but doesn’t offer additional resources for independent perusal.

      • Due to its comprehensive nature, teachers should familiarize themselves with the offerings before launching any units.

• New Visions - Literacy Routines

• TC Reading and Writing Units, Rubrics, Learning Progressions, and Student Checklists - Google folder that’s organized by unit and that includes content for at least a month’s worth of teaching

  1. 1. • Units provide explicit teaching points

        • Folder includes rubrics, checklists, and learning progressions

        • Materials need to be accompanied by a video mini-lesson

Tasks + Assignments

• Sample Hyperdocs

  • • • Poetry - Imagery by RA Villanueva

• Sample Reference/Support Guides for Units + Assignments

  • • Reference Guide for Of Mice and Men Writing Assignment

    • Reference Guide for Of Mice and Men Unit (DRAFT)

• DOE "Learn at Home" ELA Tasks - Grade 9 | Grade 10 | Grade 11 | Grade 12

  • • • No explicit mini-lessons provided, therefore materials would be challenging for students to complete on their own in a high quality manner.

      • Consider videotaping mini-lessons to share with students so they can complete the work in a high quality manner.

• NJ Center for Teaching and Learning - ELA - Provides well-organized, comprehensive slide decks, student materials, and other interactive activities for all subjects

• Great starting point to deliver content, but teachers may want to supplement with videos and zoom discussions to bring these materials to life and to increase mastery because the content (while stright-forward) is not very engaging.

• Students can practice via classwork and homework assignments but may need additional guidance, as directions are not always clear.

• Teachers are provided tests and re-tests for all units

• Detroit Public Schools Take Home Packets - Reading - Grade 5 | Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8

  • • PDF packets of iReady activities the provide a range of K-8 practice for all subjects

    • This is a great resource, in particular, to supplement middle school instruction and / or if technology is not available in student homes

    • Activities mimic state tests and MAP passages.

    • Answer keys are provided so that students can check their own work but because of the PDF format, the only way they can receive immediate feedback is if teachers provide a separate channel for them to submit responses.

    • Instructions for these home packets are at times unclear, so teachers should be prepared to offer additional guidance

• Activelylearn.com - ELA 6-12 - Provides leveled articles and tools to support student learning and is incredibly useful for SPED teachers.

• More resources for lower grades than higher grades

• Passages lack alignment with those students will see on the Regents and the NYS exam

• Students have plenty of opportunity to practice reading comprehension (both MC and open-ended), including ideal student responses and lesson plan ideas for remediation

• Articles contain mid-article CFUs to ensure students absorb the information

  • If students are stuck, a tool can highlight and read aloud a word, providing more guidance.

  • If students are stuck, there are also additional resources they can utilize

• Kim Marshall Writing and Grammar Units - Book A | Book B

  1. 1. • Various handouts on grammar, writing, and word analysis.

        • Worksheets support practice with skill and drill.

        • As with all high quality teaching, this resource is best when accompanied by a mini-lesson that explicitly teaches the material.

• NewsELA - Highly recommended FREE database of curated and leveled resources for all grade levels that are engaging and varied and that help students gear up for the Regents

  • • Teachers can assign articles with different lexiles, and can differentiate students in the class. Students are then required to answer reading comprehension questions about their assigned article.

      • Students require little guidance, and formatting of the questions resembles state-level exams.

      • Students may also respond to an open-ended response assigned by the teacher.

    • Teachers can use the “Collections” option to supplement existing units and/or books.

    • Teachers are required to set up their own classroom to assign readings and track progress.

    • If students are stuck, there are no additional resources.

• Read to Lead - Interactive and incredibly robust grades 5-8 platform that revolves around social justice values and that places students as leaders in the community

  • • Students receive reading practice in the form of a game, and use critical thinking skills to make decisions and accomplish the mission

      • If stuck, students can use the translator button or have words read aloud to them

    • Because content is neither rigorous nor extensive and because it isn't aligned with current curriculum, This is recommended as supplement to a reading comprehension passage

    • The interactive nature of the game does not allow for clear outcomes, as there is a significant part of the game with little CFUs and guidance.

    • Teacher receives detailed reports of student mastery at the end of the assignment

Assessments

• Archived Regents in English

• Edulastic |ELA - All Grades| - An easily administered assessment creator

• This is a great tool to create assessments given certain standards. This serves as great practice if a teacher knows which standards students should focus on and wants different ways to assess it

  • Assessments may not contain the proper alignment to Regents and State Exams

  • Students do not have additional resources if they are struggling

• Robust and varied question bank (sentences, drag and drop, multiple choice) broken up by standards and filterable by rigor, DOK, and other methods.

• Contains multiple reports that can be generated for remediation purposes