ELA Kick Off Part 2, 2015

You’ve started to get to know your students’ strengths and quirkinesses.  You’ve started to dress your classroom in ways that will make your space more inspiring for your students (like this poster Paige O. created for her middle school students).  Now, it’s time to learn even more about finishing Unit One strongly.

PRE-LUNCH:  LEARNING FROM STUDENTS

• Teacher-Facing Trackers:
  • High School ELA Tracker
  • Middle School ELA Tracker
• Writing:
  • APPENDIX: Level 4 Writing, by Grade-Level
  • Feedback-Made-Easy Sheet
  • 2015 Writing & Speaking Rubrics
  • Student-Facing Trackers
• Reading:
  • Strategies for Analyzing Data & Supporting Struggling Readers at beginning of year
    • Breaking Down Data with Sub-Groups of Students
    • Low-lift strategies to support struggling readers early in the year
  • ACT & Gates Administration & Grading Guidance
  • Student-Facing Trackers
  • Sharing Reading Scores with Students: 
    • Score + Goals Sheet (modeled by Darren Gray, ’14)
    • Reaction & Commitment Handout (modeled by Darren Gray, ’14)
• Culture Survey:  Reflecting on Your Data

POST-LUNCH: PREPARING FOR UNIT 2

• Unit 2 Designing Template
• Guidance for Creating an Assessment in ELA (Culminating Task Examples)
  • Example Essential Questions & Text: “Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics”
• Magic Online Unit-Design Supports:
  • Teaching Tolerance’s Perspectives Unit-Plans
  • Common Lit
  • Engage NY

•  Powerpoint from the whole day