K-3 Library

On our shelves you will find transformational resources and strategies to impact your ELA instruction. Feel free to browse, stay a while, and consider how you might use what you find here to enhance the important work you do to support K-3 students.

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Since 2013, the Idaho State Department of Education has offered an opportunity for teachers to gain further experience and expertise in the development of Idaho Content State Standards lessons, units, and assessments in a supported and sustainable manner through the establishment of Idaho Coaching Network Coaches. The Coach assigned to your district lives and has worked as a classroom teacher in your region. Each region’s Coach is committed to providing expertise, professional development, and ongoing support in order to assist districts, schools, and teachers as they plan for and implement Key Shifts. This group of over 400 teacher leaders from more than 80 districts across the state, worked with their Coaches to write and teach a unit plan aligned to the Idaho Content Standards, engaged in deep exploration of important topics related to the Idaho Content Standards and offered professional development in their schools or districts. Teacher Leaders developed abilities to deliver quality, sustainable Professional Development through the extensive study of Idaho Content topics within the authentic context of quality unit design.

In 2017, the Idaho Coaching Network added three K-3 Literacy Coaches with the intent of enhancing the support provided to primary teachers through our program and in the State of Idaho. One of the things that has come out of this collaboration is a digital space to house resources and strategies specific to the needs of our K-3 Educators. This website is designed to share those resources so they are available to teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, and curriculum directors across the state. Many of the materials found here are working models created by Coaches and Idaho teachers participating in the Idaho Coaching Network. These working models will be augmented and updated in an iterative process as they are employed in the classroom. Additionally, other valuable outside sources have been linked directly to the authors website.