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NEW VISIONS
New ELA Remote Regents Resources:
The Writing from Sources Essay
These slides provide teachers will targeted support for the Writing from Sources Essay on the NYS ELA Regents Exam. If you are a teacher who is preparing a class or a group of students for the Regents Exam, we hope you find this practice helpful in prepping students for the argumentative essay.
Additionally, we have also created remote teaching slides for the Text Analysis Response for the NYS ELA Regents Exam.
Instructional and Planning Resources
Are you new to our curriculum? Take a look at our Curriculum Overviews:
Take a look at the revised units we have developed for blended and virtual instruction as the year begins:
Looking for support with planning for synchronous and asynchronous instruction? Check out the templates and guides in this Teacher Planning Handbook.
ELA Lesson for grades 9-11
Remote Learning Plan for Grades 9 through 11
Me, Myself, and My Identity
NEW VISIONS WRITING & Webinar
This week long unit provides students with guidance in reflecting on their identity, researching potential careers, and assembling a resume.This unit can be adaptable for grades 9 - 12.
As the weather warms up, graphic novels can be a way to keep students engaged with reading. The guide contains both synchronous and asynchronous routines and activities, as well as free online graphic novel recommendations.
What It Is: This site offers literary and non-fiction reading passages for grades 3-12. Teachers can assign reading and follow-up questions, and track student progress.
Common Lit Resources for Talking About Race
At CommonLit, we value the lives and voices of our Black teachers, students, parents, colleagues, and authors. We believe that educating students with a broad range of voices is of paramount importance. We also know it can be hard for teachers to broach the subject of race and racism with students.
This text set features poems, informational texts, short stories, speeches, and more to help you get started
As always, we love to hear from you. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@commonlit.org.
No Red Ink- Writing and grammar exercises
Video Writing Prompts to practice skills across content/curriculum areas (MS/HS) - free video source.
Newsela provides ELA, Social Studies and Science Readings that can be distributed to students.
New Visions Curriculum
Remote Learning Lessons:
In this two week unit, students explore their own identity and then analyze a range of creative nonfiction texts in order to write a personal statement. This unit is adaptable for all secondary classrooms.
In this unit, students take a critical look at monsters over the course of history in order to make inferences about the fears of society. This unit culminates in a definition paper where students use rhetorical devices to argue who the monster is in current society.
