RESOURCES:

Iowa Core:

• K-12 Iowa Core
• ELA Periodic Table
• Appendix A of the Iowa Core
• Appendix B, Text Exemplars K-12
• Appendix C, Student Writing Samples K-12
• MISIC Bookmarks, K-12
• Do you want this said about your child? The essence of the ELA standards
• ELA Blueprints from SD
• Text Exemplar Links

Progression of the Standards:

• PreK-1
• K-6 All ELA standards

ELA Shifts:

• ELA Shifts PPT
• Key Shifts in ELA

Correlation Charts ​​

• Learning A-Z Correlation Chart

Smarter Balance

• Vocabulary 3-12
• SBAC Rubrics 3-12

Shift Resources

• New Research on Text Complexity
• Complex Text Article
• What is comple text anyway? 
• Quantitative Tools
• Qualitative Tools

Using MAP Data

• Reading: Interactive Games Websites Listed by RIT Scores
• Reading Activities by RIT
• How-to get DesCartes Skills
  
  

ELI Updates and Resources

• Iowa Department of Education
• ​A&A Account Portal
• Dates for Screening
  • Fall 9/5-10/31
  • Winter 1/16-2/10
  • Spring 4/24-5/19

Lesson Ideas & Interactives

• K-3 Interactive Literacy Games​​
• Letter/Phonics Games
• Lyrics2learn

Strategies

Fluency

• Fluency Chunk

Text Evidence

• Literal Observation, Inferring, Evidence Activity

Vocabulary

• Tier 1, 2 and 3 Words
• Vocabulary and the Common Core
• Sue Beers Vocab PPT
• Sheet of ideas
• Vocabulary Word Analysis Organizer

Reading 

• Reading Strategies through the content areas
• Picking Quality Text Sets

Reading Closely

• ODELL Guiding Questions
• Lesson Design Template

Text-Dependent Questions

• Informational Infograph
• Literature Infograph
• Sue Beers PPt TDQ
• Reading Street Lesson Examples 3-5

Writing to Learn

• Sue Beers Webinar

AEA Resources

Literacy/FAST-C4k/Unit planning: Amy Thacher, amy.thacher@gpaea.org
Data Team: Evan McCormick, evan.mccormick@gpaea.org

PBIS

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• Tier 1 Interventions

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Book Recommendations

Reading:

• Who's Doing The Work by Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris 
  • Discusses Next Generation Read-Alouds, Shared Reading, Guided-Reading, and Independent Reading with an emphasis on students "doing" the work.
• The Daily 5: fostering literacy independence in the elementary grades by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser
  • Management tool for teachers to structure literacy to increase student independence. 

Writing:

• The Workshop book by Samantha Bennett
  • Has examples at multiple grade-levels for how to incorporate it into your classroom.