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ELA Curriculum Maps Demystified

ELA Curriculum Maps Demystified. A Step-by-Step Guide to Inform Instructional Planning. Educational Service Center North 2014-15. Norms. Be present. What is learned here leaves here. Listen to understand with a positive mindset. Save questions until the end. Objectives.

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ELA Curriculum Maps Demystified

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  1. ELA Curriculum Maps Demystified A Step-by-Step Guide to Inform Instructional Planning Educational Service Center North 2014-15

  2. Norms • Be present. • What is learned here leaves here. • Listen to understand with a positive mindset. • Save questions until the end.

  3. Objectives • Gain a deeper understanding of the purpose and organization of the 2014-15 ELA Curriculum Maps. • Understand how to utilize the Curriculum Maps to plan and inform instruction.

  4. Frequently asked Questions

  5. What is the purpose of the Curriculum Maps? FAQs The Curriculum Maps were designed to: • Provide a global vision of the academic year. • Assist ELA teachers in aligning their instructional program to the CCSS. • Allow teachers, departments, and schools flexibility in selecting texts and support strategies. • Maintain consistency throughout the District for students regarding standards taught and assessments given.

  6. Where are the Curriculum Maps? FAQs http://achieve.lausd.net/ELA

  7. What is included in the Curriculum Maps? FAQs • 5 Instructional Windows • Standards bundles to be taught within each Instructional Window • An essential question anda culminating task for each Instructional Window

  8. What do they look like? FAQs

  9. What do they look like? FAQs

  10. What do they look like? FAQs

  11. What do they look like? FAQs

  12. Curriculum Map One-Pager Wow!

  13. Planning Instruction: A Three Step Guide Wow! • Using the One-Pager, • Review the Focus Standards. • Review the Essential Question. • Review the Culminating Task. What must students know and be able to do? What does proficiency look like?

  14. Planning Instruction: A Three Step Guide Wow! • Using the One-Pager, • Review the Focus Standards. • Review the Essential Question. • Review the Culminating Task. • Then, review the Grade __ ELA Year-At-A-Glance: • Textual Study. • Craft and Language Study. • Textual Expression.

  15. Textual Study: What texts do we teach? FAQs • Current Anthologies • AAP Lessons • LAUSD Consumable Texts • Additional (Appropriate and Credible) Supplemental Resources School Autonomy

  16. Craft and Language Study: What is this? FAQs Ask yourself: • What academic vocabulary, or language of the standards, will you teach this Instructional Window? • How will you incorporate language instruction into daily lessons?

  17. Textual Expression: What is this? FAQs Ask yourself: • What strategies and activities will students use to: • Engage with the text? • Demonstrate their understanding of concepts and ideas? • How will you incorporate varied forms of writing everyday into daily lessons?

  18. Which writing genre do we teach first? FAQs All writing genres are embedded into each instructional window.

  19. Which writing genre do we teach first? FAQs

  20. Planning Instruction: A Three Step Guide Wow! • Using the One-Pager, • Review the Focus Standards. • Review the Essential Question. • Review the Culminating Task. • Then, review the Grade __ ELA Year-At-A-Glance: • Textual Study. • Craft and Language Study. • Textual Expression. • Plan your unit.

  21. Keep in Mind Wow! • Quality over Quantity • Close reading and rereading of short texts and/or text selections • Utilize Available Resources • Anthology Alignment Project (AAP) Lessons • AAP Lesson Planning Template • Include frequent formative assessments • How will you monitor to ensure that students are successfully working toward proficiency of the focus standards?

  22. Do we have to teach resiliency all year? FAQs • Resiliency is a common thread throughout the Curriculum Maps. • Overarching themes can help to unify each Instructional Window. • Examples of overarching themes that incorporate resiliency: • The American Dream • Growing Up • Identity

  23. What additional resources are available? FAQs http://achieve.lausd.net/ELA

  24. What additional resources are available? FAQs http://achieve.lausd.net/ELA

  25. Questions?

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