Inside the ELA Classroom
July 2020
Greetings and Best Wishes for a Sensational 2020-21 School Year!
I hope everyone is enjoying the final weeks of a peaceful and rewarding summer filled with time to refresh, restore, and relax. The start of a school year is always a special time, with new students, new initiatives and exciting ideas.
Thank you to all who served diligently on the Curriculum Resource Development teams as we worked with this new school year in mind. Remember: Raz Plus and Vocabulary A-Z are Learning A-Z products available to all elementary students. Renaissance STAR has an updated platform which is available to grades 1– 9. STAR reading measures students' understanding of multiple reading skills across a variety of domains. Your commitment to ensuring the success of our students is awe-inspiring.
CURRICULUM PACING GUIDES
Direct links to the Learning Resources (Shared folders) and grade level pacing guides can be accessed by following the directions below. To access all information, it is important to use your Coweta County email address.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
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Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
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Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Click the graphic above to access the Resource Folder. Click the Grade Level to access the Curriculum Pacing Guide.
Encourage Students To Read
The website Bookopolis provides students a method to receive and provide recommendations from their peers. This site captures thousands of student-written book reviews.
Epic! Books allows students ages 12 and younger access to more than 10,000 digital books. The program is free to elementary teachers and librarians.
This online reading log motivates students to read more with extrinsic rewards. Students earn Wisdom Coins for logging reading, answering open-ended and reading comprehension questions. The coins are used to "buy" accessories for their Owlvatar.
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Fluency Resources
Achieve the Core, Classroom Resources
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Google classrooms
Juicy Sentence Guidance
The guidance outlines some ideas for fostering conversations around “juicy sentences.” The juicy sentence is a strategy developed by Dr. Lily Wong Fillmore, specifically to address the needs of ELLs and accessing complex text, and it is a tool that is useful for helping all students learn to deconstruct and reconstruct sentences, and to understand how different language features contribute to meaning. The guidance includes:
- Information on the value of juicy sentence work for supporting access to complex text for all students
- A checklist of considerations for selecting a sentence for juicy sentence work
- An annotated exemplar sentence
- A model process
More information about Dr. Lily Wong Fillmore’s work can be found in this article.
ELA Professional Learning Sessions
Please review your Professional Learning Schedule. Dates and meeting locations may changed based on pertinent information.
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
~Nelson Mandela
Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
~Anatole France
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Email: paula.baker@cowetaschools.net
Website: http://curriculum.cowetaschools.org/
Phone: 770-254-2810
Twitter: @PBakerEducates