Curriculum Connections
February 2017
Muskingum Valley ESC
Email: cathy.morgan@mvesc.org
Website: mvesc.org
Location: 205 North 7th Street, Zanesville, OH, United States
Phone: 740-452-4518
Enjoy the February 2017 Educator Resources from the Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment Department!
See below how you can get your name in for this month's special drawing for educator books and tools from our library.
Notice and Note
- Link to a released portion of the book Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Beers and Probst.
- Link to purchase the ebook Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading by Beers and Probst.
- Link to purchase Reading Nonfiction: Notice and Note Stances, Signposts, and Strategies.
- View video overview of the signpost strategy.
- View overview for students of the fiction signposts, text clues, connection to literary elements, and questions to ask when rereading.
- Print reproducible cards of the fiction signposts for students.
- Use the Notice and Note Study Guide Videos: II (1-4) and III from the authors explains the process and approach.
- Explore an Example of how to use in lessons.
- Explore reading mini-lessons, organized by grade level.
Resources organized by Louisiana Believes: https://www.louisianabelieves.com
UDL Toolkit
MVESC ACT Resources
- on-line tools for test practice
- websites to support ACT vocabulary development
- links to the Ohio Department of Education Resources
- Student Strategies
MVESC Science Resources
- Text sources
- Activities and labs
- Multi-media resources
MVESC Social Studies Resources
- Primary sources
- Lesson plans
- Multi-media resources
The Right Question Institute
Sugar Sugar Math Playground
Readworks- Article a Day
Citelighter
Is there a need in your district to provide targeted, consistent, rigorous writing instruction and standards-based scoring across all grades, classrooms, subjects and schools? Check out Citelighter, an on-line writing program.
Citelighter provides:
· 1000+ Common Core aligned writing templates for grades 2–12
· Corresponding standards-based scoring rubrics
· Flexible templates & rubrics so teachers can add/remove scaffolding
· Britannica Online content with Lexile levels
· Plagiarism check function
· Integrates easily with Google docs or Word
· Model lessons
· Demonstration videos
· Writing suite that mirrors state assessment environments
KinderArt-Cross Curricular Art
Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History
From the National Council of Social Studies, a Guidance Document.
Social Studies Resources
Constitutional Rights Foundation of Chicago provides these classroom lessons and resources for elementary, middle, and high school teachers.
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