English Language Development

A few of the growing number OER Web sites that support instruction and learning of the CA CCSS for ELA/Literacy and offer high q ...

Appendix 12-A: Optional Criteria Program 3 Basic Biliteracy: Spanish/English Language Development Program Instructional material ...

Appendix 12-B: Matrix 1 Program 4: Intensive Intervention Program in English Language Arts, Grades Four Through Eight This progr ...

Key to Symbols: c = Complete Standard Addressed p = Partial Standard Addressed NA = Not Applicable Standard/Number Grade 1 Grade ...

Appendix 12-B: Matrix 2 Program 5: Specialized Designated English Language Development Program, Grades Four Through Eight This p ...

Standards Labeling Key ELA Standards are identified by their strand, grade, and number. RL.4.3 = reading literature, grade 4, st ...

Standards Labeling Key ELA Standards are identified by their strand, grade, and number. RL.4.3 = reading literature, grade 4, st ...

Works Cited California Department of Education (CDE). 2010. Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools, Kinder ...

“Literature is the most astonishing technological means that humans have created, and now practiced for thousands of years, to c ...

Unfortunately, for many students it is only in English class that they are assigned reading. Too many students graduate without ...

Making Complex Text Accessible Literature study offers students windows to other worlds, other cultures, other times. It poses i ...

In Defense of Depressing Books Students often wonder why so much of the literature they study in school is so depressing. Romeo ...

you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it’s this: The world doesn’t have to be like this. Things can b ...

It is unrealistic to think that students will cheer when their teacher hands out copies of a Shakespeare play or a Homeric epic— ...

Readers like Annie Dillard lose themselves in books the way gamers lose themselves in World of Warcraft. The Harry Potter and Hu ...

Book Resources for Teachers One of the most important decisions teachers make is choosing books for their students. Selecting wh ...

Newbery Medal winners and honor books (awarded to authors of American literature for children) http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgra ...

National Book Award (awarded by a consortium of book publishing groups to exceptional books written by Americans, given in the c ...

Christopher Award (awarded to books which affirm the highest values of the human spirit) http://www.christophers.org/page.aspx?p ...

The Guardian’s 100 greatest novels of all time http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/12/features.fiction The Guardian’s 100 ...