Connecticut Core Standards

Classroom Resources - ELA

EQuIP Resources for Common Core Alignment

  • EQuIP e-Learning Modules – The purpose of this east-Learning module is to develop the learner's knowledge and understanding of the EQuIP Quality Review Procedure, which is designed to increase the ability of educators – and educational leaders – to identify and create quality instructional materials aligned to the Mutual Core State Standards. Specifically, learners volition explore what effective observations and benchmark-based feedback await similar and experience the process of reviewing instructional materials using the EQuIP Quality Review criteria, rating scales, and rating descriptors. (achieve.org)
  • The EQuIP Student Work Protocolis designed to establish or articulate the human relationship between student work and the quality and alignment of instructional materials that previously take been reviewed using the EQuIP quality review process. Focusing on this human relationship enables educators to develop a common understanding of the challenging work required by the CCSS. (achieve.org)
  • Annotated Pupil Piece of work Initiative - To complement the EQuIP quality review process, Accomplish launched the EQuIP Annotated Student Piece of work Initiative. Educatee work samples provide additional indicators of the alignment and quality of instructional materials. As such, this initiative is designed to add annotated educatee piece of work samples to the existing collection of exemplar lessons and units for each content area and grade band.  (Achieve)
  • EQuIP Pupil Work Annotation Guide – This guide describes a process for identifying and applying key annotations to educatee work, for the purpose of enhancing implementation of instructional materials. (Achieve)
  • Strengthening Lessons for the Common Core -  This video explores the role of the EQuIP rubrics in instructional planning,  calibration and what teachers might learn from evaluating lessons together. (Achieve and Didactics Channel)
  • Peer Review in Activity: The ELA EQuIP Rubric - This video introduces a Educatee Piece of work Protocol to evaluate an ELA/Literacy lesson using the EQuIP rubric. (Accomplish and Teaching Aqueduct)
  • EQuIP Rubric for Lessons & Units: ELA/Literacy Grades Thousand-2 (reach.org)
  • EQuIP Rubric for Lessons and Units: ELA/Literacy (Grades three-5) and ELA (Grades 6-12) (reach.org)
  • Understanding Quality and Alignment: EQuIP ELA/Literacy - This video provides an overview of Achieve's EQuIP collaborative and the Tri-Land Rubrics for evaluating the quality of instructional materials. (achieve.org/EQuIP)
  • EQuIP: Educators Evaluating Quality Instructional Products (reach.org)

Toolkits and Materials

  • Smarter Counterbalanced Digital Library
  • Text to Text Graphic Organizers - Equally students read and discuss, they might find one or more of these organizers helpful for taking notes.  They can be printed or used as editable PDFs on computers. (learning.blogs.nytimes.com)
    • Comparing Ii or More Texts
    • Double-Entry Chart for Close Reading
    • Certificate Analysis Questions
  • Instructional Materials Evaluation Tool for CCSS Alignment in ELA Grades K-12 (IMET) – Student Accomplishment Partners (achievethecore.org)
  • The Adapting Materials Projection – This project gives readers an inside expect at the process 4 districts used to accommodate their math and ELA/Literacy materials for Common Cadre alignment. Training resources and tools used to develop adaptations, gratis adapted materials for the classroom, instance studies of the adaption process, also as expert panel findings about aligning instructional materials are included. (achievethecore.org)
  • Mutual Core-Aligned Interventions for Adolescent Readers - This resource package is designed to aid schoolhouse leaders, instructional coaches, general education teachers, special education, and intervention teachers call up and programme together about strategic means to all-time use additional support time beyond the typical ELA block. The suggestions hither could certainly exist practical to all learners, but are targeted particularly for students who aren't meeting form level standards during a standard form period. Once y'all get to the linked site, you will need to scroll down to this resource.  (commoncoresuccess.elschools.org)
  • forty Resource and Tools for Deeper Learning – K-12 Resources include a video series with supporting materials including rubrics, lesson plans, enquiry, and strategy documents (teachingchannel.org)
  • PBS LearningMediaTools - Lesson Builder lets teachers create and assign an interactive lesson in three short steps. (pbslearningmedia)
  • PBS LearningMediaTools - Quiz Maker lets teachers create a simple assessment.(pbslearningmedia)
  • PBS LearningMediaTools – Storyboard is a way to illustrate a concept or topic through a drove of videos, text and images. Just salvage the storyboard to admission a URL to share with a grade. (pbslearningmedia)
  • WebTools4U2Use: Finding the Right Tool(webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com)
  • FYI for Kids is a collection of engaging and loftier-quality magazine manufactures designed to enhance the Common Cadre classroom'due south reading repertoire by using short engaging articles that communicate critical data. (textproject.org)
  • Comprehension Response Sheets to accompany FYI for Kids created by Pat Cunniham for utilize with all v levels of texts in the FYI for Kids department of the textproject.org website.
  • Stories of Words – This free series aims to develop students' interest in interesting words. Each book of the serial (in pdf format) explores the vocabulary of a different topic such as food, movies, and acronyms. Each topic falls into one of four methods of how words accept been added to the English language language: languages from other parts of the earth, themes that play a big function of our lives, words that we've manipulated or reused to suit different needs, new words to describe new inventions or technological advances. (textproject.org)