K-12 ELA resources & Links
Standards and Implementation
KSDE ELA Standards Website Page
Engageny - Curriculum and Instruction Website from New York Department of Education
Academic Vocabulary List from Jim Burke, categorized by parts of speech
Building Academic Vocabulary, resources, presentations, and lists by grade from OK DOE
Text Exemplars free & purchased from Appendix B
Common Core Utah ELA maps 6-12
Resources
Teralyn Cohn ELA Resources from 1-19-15 in-service
Teralyn Cohn Livebinders link – has great resource for ELA classroom
Lexile by Chapter Guides: explore one aspect of the text complexity within a book by providing Lexile measures for every chapter in the text. Each guide includes a graph and table displaying the Lexile information to help educators, parents, and students better understand where the peaks and valleys of complexity reside within a text. Use the link below to access this new resource.
Accelerated Reader Book Find for Reading Level
Scholastic Teacher Book Wizard
Read Works - website for reading resources - includes lessons, units, novel studies, and more
www.PowerMyLearning.org -Thousands of Free Math & English Edu. Games Tagged by Common Core
fortheteachers.org - Curriculum resources, and Instructional Resources for all subjects.
Wiki - Kristi Orcutt Resources
Google Lit. trips - Google Lit Trips are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey, there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought-provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story. The focus is on creating engaging and relevant literary experiences for students.
Assessment Information
CETE KAP ELA Page - this is the content area page in the kansas assessment program website
CETE KAP ELA Formative Assessment Tools page - this is formative tools in KAP website for ELA
2015 ELA Assessment Update October 2014
www.ksde.org/ela.: 2016 MDPT resources, prompts, and scored student responses (6th and 8th grade only for this year) from field test materials. They have been posted to the ELA portal:
Tips sheet for taking and administering the MDPT - 3/30/15:
Updated Information about the Multidisciplinary Performance Assessment Tasks (MDPT)
Links to Sample Performance Tasks & Exemplary Lessons (all content areas)
Preparing Students for Writing on Demand
KSDE Rubric for MDPT Grade 3-5 - Opinion
KSDE Rubric for MDPT Grades 6-8 - Argument
KSDE Rubric for MDPT High School - Argument
Writing Strategic Strategies Handouts - this was from the August 2015 in-service day.