language arts (elementary)

Provides an assessment system for districts, schools, and classrooms that uses continuous assessment, timely feedback, and clear goals to follow the progression of learning and includes learning progressions, on-demand writing prompts, student checklists and writing samples, rubrics, and exemplar pieces of writing.

In this engaging collection, teacher Dave Leochko shares his favorite writing lessons. These classroom-tested mini-lessons take young writers through all the steps of the writing process and pinpoint key topics such as leads, sentence structure, plots, punctuation and more.

[This book offers the] support students' abilities to be strategic, metacognitive writers who use particular processes to achieve particular purpose as writers. Also helps studetns learn to use writing as a tool for learning across the day and throughout their richly literate lives -- p. 4.

"This book offers an assessment system that can be used across a district, school or classroom. Three intertwined Pre-K-6 learning progressions, one each in opinion, information, and narrative writing, are at the center of this systems. These learning progressions are aligned to the Common Core State Standards and to our knowledge of the teaching or writing, and they have been piloted, in conjunction with the other tools in this system, in tens of thousands of classrooms."--Page 2.

[This book] represents about six weeks of teaching, and within those six weeks, the unit supports several cycles of drafting, revision, and publication. The units align with the three types of writing specified in the Common Core State Standards -- p. 4.

A practical guide for improving and sustaining effective, daily literacy practices in all subject areas in order that all students receive the highest possible levels of achievement.

Provides simple text, examples, and colorful illustrations to explain what simple and compound sentences are and how they are used; includes review questions and an answer key.