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Resources for the Grade Level Content Expectations

Good Places to Start

Grade Level Content Expectations (GLCE) website. 

High School Content Expectations

SCOPE  (model curriculum from Oakland ISD)

The Educators Reference Desk   contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world.  Lesson plans cover topics such as, Social Studies, Science, Vocational Education, Physical Education, Philosophy, Mathematics, Language Arts, Foreign Language, Arts and Health.

The Gateway to Educational Materials provides educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

The Educator’s Reference Desk has links to over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues, lesson plans, and links to the ERIC database.

FREE, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence links more than 30 Federal agencies to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find.

Blue Web’N  is an online library of outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each week 5 new sites are added.

Marco Polo  provides high quality resources to teachers and students. Developed by world-renowned organizations who are experts in their fields, these standards-based resources include lessons plans, student materials, reviewed Web resources and interactives.

Annenberg/CPB multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom. All Annenberg/CPB videos exemplify excellent teaching.   A perfect type of professional development. Ranging from teaching economics, to high school literature and K-2 math and science.

California’s online resource of lesson plans: for all grades 

What Works Clearinghouse

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Emergent Literacy and Reading

The Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication

The Knowledge Loom: Elementary Literacy spotlights identifies effective instructional and organizational literacy practices that support the diverse learning needs of elementary school students. Also provides reading, writing, listing, and speaking instruction for grades K-6.

A Framework for Early Literacy Instruction: Aligning Standards to Developmental Accomplishments and Student Behaviors provides information on the foundational knowledge needs of very young learners and recognizes their unique developmental characteristics, as indicated by the research on early literacy development at the pre-k and kindergarten levels.

The Network for English Acquisition and Reading Star Schools Program (NEARStar) is an interactive, Web-based multimedia supplemental reading program designed for students who are in the beginning stages of both reading and oral language development.  Useful for English Language Learners.

Learning to read and write: a place to start. includes activities to support the development of talking, reading, and writing. The discussion is divided into two chapters, "Supporting Early Literacy: The Preschool Years" and "Supporting Early Literacy: The Primary Years."

100 Most Frequent Words in Books for Beginning Readers is a list of the 100 most frequent words in books for beginning readers.

Reading Lesson Plans from NWREL  

Federal Resources for Excellence in Education  includes many curriculum units designed by federal grant programs. 

Michigan’s  Reading First materials

Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (MLPP) sites  How to implement and use assessment for  MLPP A complete set of assessment tools, portfolio, and individual student profile materials, including grades 4 and 5 for MLPP.  MLPP Support links

The Center for the improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) is a national center for research on early reading.  Although no longer funding, the website has relevant materials.

National Reading Panel, Reading and Writing across the curriculum

Michigan Educators’ Resources

ReadWriteThink has hundreds of lesson plans that can be sorted by topic, grade or title.  This website is supported by International Reading Association and Teachers of English.  There are also online units.

Lexile Framework for Reading adopted approach for measuring reader ability and text difficulty. Lexile measures put readers and reading material on the same scale.  

Reading lesson plans from NWREL: (reading link) and Reading –Getting Started

Searchable data base with hundreds of lesson plans. The lesson plans focus on reading and writing for all grade levels.

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Middle and High School Literacy and Teaching Reading through Content Areas

Middleweb   aimed for middle school

The Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication

The Knowledge Loom: Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas: Go to the site map and click on Adolescent Literacy in Content Areas Related Resources for lesson plans.  Note that the lesson plans are in alphabetical order, so scroll through the complete list to find discipline specific lessons. 

Building Reading Proficiency At the Secondary Level: A Guide to Resources, includes resources available to for struggling secondary readers.

Perspectives on Policy and Practice: Content Area Literacy, investigates the ways in which schools can promote adolescent literacy initiatives within the content areas. Explains what educators need to be aware of before implementing these programs at the classroom level, and the new academic standards and technology that must be taken into account when designing an action plan.

Kent ISD Curriculum materials

Reading Strategies for Content Area Teachers

ReadWriteThink has hundreds of lesson plans that can be sorted by topic, grade or title.  This website is supported by International Reading Association and Teachers of English.  There are also online units.

Adolescent Literacy Resources  is designed for educators to gain knowledge in the field of adolescent literacy, have resources with which to plan or design an adolescent literacy initiative, and identify key resources that would be relevant to a particular project.

Inquiring minds: learning and literacy in early adolescence examines how to create optimal literacy environments for young adolescents.

The Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) serves middle and high school educators, teacher leaders and teacher educators, Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms, describes the Reading Apprenticeship® framework developed in collaborative work with teams of teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the kinds of successes and struggles teachers and students have experienced using this approach. Reading Apprenticeship® framework combines affective and cognitive aspects to promote adolescents' engagement and achievement in reading the variety of texts they face in their content area classes.

Three excellent books in the What Works series by Joellen Killion are available on the web from the National Staff Development Council. 

These are also available at the NSDC website:  You can also order the What Works series from the NSCD bookstore. 

Reading lesson plans from NWREL

Lexile Framework for Reading approach for measuring reader ability and text difficulty. Lexile measures put readers and reading material on the same scale. Lexiles tie day to day classroom instruction to high stakes tests and everyday books and articles, encouraging reading progress.

English as a Second Language and Adult Literacy, National Institute for Literacy  

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Writing

The Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication  (make sure you scroll to the bottom of the list…)

Writing instruction and assessment specifics from NWREL’s 6+I Trait Writing.  The site has many lesson plans. 

Outta Ray’s Head  is a collection of lesson plans that can be easily adapted for any content area.  Excellent for middle school and high school.

Educator’s Reference Desk, Lesson Plans  (type in Writing)  or go directly to http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi/Resources/Subjects/Language_Arts/Writing.html

ReadWriteThink has hundreds of lesson plans that can be sorted by topic, grade or title.  This website is supported by International Reading Association and Teachers of English.  There are also online units.

ASCD, links to resources and website.  Online training, books, materials, articles. 

Michigan Teacher Network,

National Institute for Literacy, links to best practices

 

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Math 

Mathematics Internet Sites (MASER)

The Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Macomb ISD’s links to math education materialsComputing Technology for Math Excellence is devoted to resources for teaching and learning mathematics (K-12 and calculus) and the standards movement in education

National Science Foundation funded Math programs. 

Problems with a Point math lessons for grades 6 to 12

COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, develops curriculum materials and teacher development programs centered on using mathematical tools to explore real-world problems.

What Works Clearinghouse

The Show-Me Project  in partnership with five NSF-sponsored middle grades curriculum development satellites provides information and resources with lots of lesson plans for middle school math. 

Math Forum is a leading center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. There are great lesson plans for all levels of math.  On the home page, click on Teachers’ Place at the top of the page

Illuminations is designed to provide teachers, students, and families with internet resources to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics by all students.

Figure This demonstrates challenging middle school mathematics and emphasizes the importance of high-quality math education for all students. A project for the NCTM and National Action Council for Minorities.  Aimed at diverse students and their parents. 

Modeling Middle School Mathematics is a dynamic project aimed at improving mathematic instruction grades 5-8. This project, funded by the National Science Foundation, utilizes emerging technologies to "bring math to life." Aligned with NCTM Standards.

Math Mountain includes math problems for grades 2-6. Also provides a collection of useful links to other mathematics websites.

Uncommon Knowledge:  Volume 1 Hands-on Math Projects.   Projects that help middle school students with math and science.  Especially praised for girls.   

Math Counts, l a program that promotes middle school mathematics.

Middle School Math 

Shapes, Shapes Everywhere! A Second/Third Grade Unit this second/third grade nine-lesson unit integrates multiple mathematics benchmarks.

Math in The Work Place exposes students to professions that employ mathematics and demonstrates the relevance of mathematics in solving real-world challenges.

Real World Problems  includes teacher-friendly modules ready for use in grades 9 to 12.  Finds ways to incorporate math with every day experiences such as, analysis of the value of automobile collision insurance and how to determine the best work schedule to minimize cost of labor while getting the job done.

The Northwest Regional Lab  has four publications demonstrating research-based strategies for meeting the needs of students with learning disabilities in math and science.

The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math, Science, and Technology.  (subscription)

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Science

Science Internet Sites (MASER)

ScienceNetLinks  provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators.  Linked to AAAS standards.

The Science Spot contains links and information for teachers who are interested in enriching their science classes. Targeted at grades 5-8.

Whelmers: McREL's Accessible Science Series hands-on science activities, aligned with the National Science Education Standards. Most activities use materials found in hardware or grocery stores.   

A River Runs Through It: Ecology and Data Collection  A local river is the focus for this year-long series of integrated mathematics and science units for gifted fourth- and fifth-grade students.  

Smallville's Prairie Development Project: Environmental Science Integrated with Social Studies and Math

Multidisciplinary project for  grades 4-5.

Role-Playing a Committee Hearing on Nuclear Power and Safety Students will consider what they already know about nuclear power and its uses and then examine an accident at a nuclear power plant.

Uncommon Knowledge, Part 1 Hands on Science Projects for middle school students using everyday life.  

National Science Teachers Association  

The Northwest Regional Lab has four publications demonstrating research-based strategies for meeting the needs of students with learning disabilities in math and science.

Everyday Classroom Tools is an inquiry-based science curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade

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Rubrics and Graphic Organizers

Rubrician was designed for teachers and includes rubrics for all subjects and all levels.

Graphic organizers, mind maps, and concept maps  are a pictorial or graphic way to organize thoughts.  Great for teaching organizational skills. 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A collection of rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own.

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Assessing GLCE

Excel spreadsheet for teachers   (scroll to section 5.3 to download spreadsheet by grade)

Toolkit98  is designed to assist classroom teachers to become better assessors of student learning. The primary users of Toolkit98 are intended to be those who have responsibility to coordinate and facilitate professional development in assessment for teachers.

Annenberg/CPB multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg/CPB videos exemplify excellent teaching.   A perfect type of professional development. Ranging from teaching economics, to high school literature and K-2 math and science.

Maine has developed an extraordinary site on developing local assessments, ie local tests which complement state exams. These Local assessments may include portfolios, performances and demonstrations in addition to other measures of achievement.  Schools may find the process of constructing local assessments valuable.   

 Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own. 

Brualdi, Amy “Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom”

Mid Michigan Consortium:  http://mmc.edzone.net/

Midland Saginaw:  http://www.mcesa.k12.mi.us/instruc.htm (scroll down on the page to the section on Other Useful links)

Shiawassee RESD  http://www.sresd.k12.mi.us/pages/resources/curric.html

The Gutenberg Project: http://www.gutenberg.org/

Oakland ISD: http://cars.oakland.k12.mi.us/

Wayne RESA: http://www.resa.net/ 

Macomb ISD:  http://www.misd.net/curriculum.htm (includes science GLCE)

California:  http://www.score.k12.ca.us/

Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System: http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/search/intro.html

Saginaw Valley State University:  SVSU - Regional Mathematics & Science Center

Math and Science Assessments:    http://mathassessments.mscenters.org/ 

North Dakota Classroom Task Bank:  http://www.dpi.state.nd.us/standard/content.shtm

Chicago Public Schools:

The Compendium of Assessment and Research Tools:  http://cart.rmcdenver.com/   

 

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