WIDA offers a series of bulletins on topics of interest to educators of English language learners.The PDF documents below are archived versions of WIDA’s Focus Bulletins, available on a variety of topics related to ELL instruction and assessment.
180 estimation activities
Understanding text complexity is essential to implementing the Common Core State Standards in ELA & Literacy. But what makes a text complex and how will it help prepare my students for college and career? What tools can I use to select rich, worthy texts for instruction in my classroom? How can analyzing the qualitative characteristics of a text inform my instruction of a text? These have been our guiding questions in developing this text complexity resource for teachers.
Achievethecore.org :: ELA / Literacy Lesson Bank
A library of over 500 free, teacher-developed Common Core-aligned lessons for grades K-12. Includes lessons for popular stories, nonfiction texts, basal readers, and anthologies.
Michigan Toolkit: MIToolkit.org
“MI Toolkit is a monthly webzine and toolkit that offers information and resources on improving student achievement. Created as part of MI Excel, the Statewide System of Support, MI Toolkit is intended to serve Priority and Focus schools and districts, but the information presented here will be an excellent resource for anyone seeking to boost student achievement or close achievement gaps in a school or district.”
500 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing – NYTimes.com
“Every school day since 2009 we’ve asked students a question based on an article in The New York Times. Now, five years later, we’ve collected 500 of them that invite narrative and personal writing and pulled them all together in one place. Consider it a companion to the list of 200 argumentative writing prompts we posted earlier this year.
The categorized list below touches on everything from sports to travel, education, gender roles, video games, fashion, family, pop culture, social media and more, and, like all our Student Opinion questions, each links to a related Times article and includes a series of follow-up questions. What’s more, all these questions are still open for comment by any student 13 or older.”
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Practice tests for ACT, etc.
Welcome Macomb County Literacy Leaders!
Michigan Department of Education page listing requirements and resources for homeless liaisons.
Resources for Teachers – Curriculum Ladders
Curriculum Ladders are a visual representation of the range of complexity for a set of skills. These ladders use skills from NWEA’s instructional resource, DesCartes: A Continuum of Learning. The ladders help identify small groups of students with similar instructional needs and make it easier to see the range of skills as you work to address students’ instructional needs and to plan for future learning.
