Pacing Guides and Common Core Center Activities

Teachers:

The district has released revised pacing guides for reading, math, and science. The writing pacing guides will be available by July 31, 2012. You can access them via Learning Village found at http://village.dadeschools.net/.

Also, FCRR has aligned center activities for Language and Reading Foundational Skills to the Common Core. You can access the activities for K-5 at http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/SCA_CCSS_index.shtm.

Differentiated Instruction Tracking: Kinder

Our fabulous K teachers came up with these sound tracking and monitoring sheets for DI during the '11-'12 school year. Download them below:

DI Spreadsheet Checklist
DI Individual Student Folders

Month by Month Sight Word Tracking:

September
October
November
December
January
February
March

MDCPS Reading/Writing Rigorous Planners

The Division of Language Arts has provided some planning templates that may be helpful to you as you prepare for the upcoming school year. A special thank you to Ms. Perry who has shared these documents from the district Grade 3 Common Core training she attended earlier in the summer. Click the picture to download the editable planner.

Grade 3 Writing Planner

Planning for a Rigorous Reading Lesson

Planning for Instructional Rigor

Daily Planner



Common Core Standards: Elementary School

Gaze Aversion to Improve Critical Thinking and Focus

Making Students Better Writers

Donor's Choose

A special congratulations to all of the participants of our May PD on Grant Writing! All of the projects submitted as follow-ups for this session were recently funded. That is well over $3,500 worth of materials coming to our school this fall!

If you haven't created a project yet, now is a great time to start. This is a great way to get those much needed resources for your classroom. Go to http://www.donorschoose.org for more information.

The following teachers were recently funded:

Ms. Kohn
Ms. Rivera
Ms. Mangan
Ms. Seaman
Ms. Lazier
Ms. Franklyn
Ms. Carerro
Ms. Perry
Ms. Chapman
Ms. Goldberg
Ms. Willis
Ms. Chambers
Ms. Smith
Ms. Lawson

Way to go!

Common Core Lesson Idea: Keep It or Junk It!

Summer PLC Documents

Summer Common Core PLC Participants:

Attached please find the downloads from our first PLC session. Click the link to download the attachment.

• Session 1 PowerPoint: Common Core
• Session 1 Agenda
• QAR Chart
• The Fisherman and His Wife Close Reading Exemplar (Grade 3)
• Depth of Knowledge
• Common Core Suggested Reading List
• Text Complexity Rubric
• Comprehension Stems (Informational)
• Comprehension Stems (Narrative)
• Text Complexity Scale
• Because of Winn Dixie

Remember that our next session will be held on July, 25, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Please make sure to complete your follow-up activity prior to the session. See you there!

Common Core Library

The Common Core Library is a must-see site! Check it out by clicking the link below.

http://schools.nyc.gov/Academics/CommonCoreLibrary/default.htm

Common Core: Professional Reading

Common Core is here! Below please find the suggested list of professional reading texts for the Common Core.

• Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement by Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth and Christopher Lehman
• Common Core Curriculum Maps in ELA, Grades K-5 by Common Core (Common Core Series)
• The Common Core Lesson Book, K-5: Working with Increasingly Complex Literature, Informational Text, and Foundational Reading Skills by Gretchen Owocki
• Text Complexity: Raising Rigor in Reading by Nancy Frey and Diane Lapp Douglas
• Teaching Students to Read Like Detectives: Comprehending, Analyzing, and Discussing Text by  Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey  and Diane Lapp Douglas
• Teaching the Youngest Writers: A Practical Guide by Marcia Freeman - Primary 
• Building a Writing Community: A Practical Guide by Marcia Freeman - Intermediate

If you have a copy of any of these books and are willing to allow your colleagues to borrow, please comment on this post with the titles that you are willing to share. Thanks!