District Resources- Secondary ELA

Which of the following resources do you use at the very beginning of designing instruction?

• Year-at-a-glance

• OAS Standards

• Unit Plans

• Common Formative Assessment

Structured Literacy is an effective, research-based practice for teaching reading and writing in a systematic and ________ way.

What is the purpose of the standard overview document?

• Connect adopted curriculum to priority standards

• scope and sequencing

• unwraps the priority standard

• Dives into the common formative assessment

Why are there two versions of the district CFAs?

• To assess teaching and reteach

• pre-assessment/ post assessment

• To help design instruction

• to keep students busy the last ten minutes of class

Why is it important to follow the Year-at-a-glance?

• It shows the skills that are priority and the sequence they should be taught.

• It allows for equity between school sites when it comes to planning instruction.

• It allows teachers to be proactive and know what skills are coming next.

• It shows teachers the importance of a skill by the size of box the skill is placed.

What's the difference between the standards overview and the unit plans?

• They are the same document, just formatted differently.

• Standards overview focuses on one standard while unit plans focus on a bundle of standards.

• Unit plans shows alignment to adopted curriculum and standard overviews dig into the complexity of the standard.

• Standard Overviews answers question 1 and 2 of the PLC process. Unit Plans elaborate on additional details a teacher might need.

The OKCPS reserved novel list is important because...

• It provides text that are content and lexile appropriate for students.

• Guarantees that a student does not read the same book every school year.

• Provides novels that went through the OSDE text complexity rubric.

• Allows you to submit requests for future books.

A skilled and fluent reader needs to know these two areas: ​ ​   and ​ word recognition.

• Syntax

• Vocabulary

• Reading Comprehension

• Language Comprehension

• sight words