Download - Networking Session
Networking Session Networking Session English Language Arts and Literacy
April 25, 2014
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To Start Off:
Please reflect on what you will be able to observe (see, hear) when you have successfully implemented Kansas ELA College and Career-Ready State Standards in your schools and districts.Teacher Practices?Student Work?Instructional Materials?
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Suite of Tools to Evaluate Alignment
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AchievetheCore.org
Leadership Tools tab
http://achievethecore.org/
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Types of Tools in the Toolkit
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KSDE Kansas Guide to Learning: Literacy
A comprehensive literacy guide to advance learning from birth to Grade 12http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=5899
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Text Complexity
KSDE website and Council of Chief School Officers English Language Arts State Collaborative on Assessment and Student Standards (CCSSO ELA SCASS) website
http://www.ccsso.org/Navigating_Text_Complexity.html
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Student Achievement Partners and The Council of the Great City Schools
Supplemental Lesson Development
Basal Alignment Project- Elementary
Anthology Alignment Project- MS and HS
Read-Aloud Project- K-2
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Basal and Anthology Alignment Projects
Cooperation of textbook publishers
District teams comprised of literacy, ELL, SWD, and other educators
Examine adopted materials and write text-dependent, CCSS- aligned questions for basal reading selections in grades 3-5 (BAP) and grades 6-12 (AAP)
Focused on evaluating existing questions for alignment and writing good text-dependent questions to sources
Require close reading of the text and preparation for the culminating, text-based discussion or writing task
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Read-Aloud Project Student Achievement Partners and The Council of the
Great City Schools launched the Read-Aloud Project (RAP) for the K-2 grade band.
Written by teams of curriculum, English language learning specialists, and Special Education educators.
Text-dependent questions to go with picture books that are above grade level and rich with complex text.
Build knowledge and vocabulary
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How to access BAP, RAP, AAP on Edmodo
Go to www.edmodo.com
Create a teacher user name and password
Use the following codes to access the BAP, AAP, and RAP codes respectively:
BAP: f4q6nm AAP: pkx4sp RAP: pkx52i
KSDE Learning Resource Sets
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What’s News at KSDE
KSDE ELA Newsletterhttp://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?
tabid=5280 KSDE ELA Listserv [email protected] or [email protected] KSDE Trainershttp://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?
tabid=5812
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2014 KSDE Summer Academies
June 3-5Colby Senior High School (USD 315)
June 17-19Derby High School (USD 260)
July 8-10Highland Park High School- Topeka (USD 501)
July 22-24Abilene Middle School (USD 435)
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Feedback to Kris and Suzy
Sign me up for the ELA Listserv ELA Newsletter ideas Learning Resource Sets Kris Shaw [email protected] Suzy Oertel [email protected]