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Recipes for Effective Literacy Instruction

Lessons & Units

 

Are you writing CURRICULUM UNITS? Check out...

1. Templates for Lessons & Units
This page provides information on how to design unit plans and curriculum overview maps, including blank templates and models.

2. Standards--COMMON CORE
This page has up-to-date information about the Common Core State Standards PLUS some resources that the CCSS Website doesn't even offer!!!

NOTE: If you work in NJ, check out the new Standards--NJ page! (Updated standards go into effect in Sept. 2024)
 

3. Curriculum Resources & Links
This page provides an array of resources for curriculum writers.

 
4. HS English Lessons & Units
This page contains downloadable resources for more than a dozen novels, memoirs, and plays commonly taught in high school English classes.
 
5. MS English Lessons & Units
This page contains downloadable resources for a handful of commonly-taught middle school texts.
 

 

Are you writing LESSON PLANS?  Check out...

 

1. Templates for Lessons & Units
This page provides information on how to design lesson plans, including blank templates and models.

 
2. RPM Objectives
“RPM” Objectives are Rigorous, Purposeful, and Measurable.  Like RPMs in cars, which represent acceleration, RPM objectives can help accelerate student learning.

 
3. Do Nows to Boost Literacy
 
4. HS English Lessons & Units
This page contains downloadable resources for more than a dozen novels, memoirs, and plays commonly taught in high school English classes.

 
5. MS English Lessons & Units
This page contains downloadable resources for a handful of commonly-taught middle school texts.

 

 



 

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