Classroom Video
Eliciting Evidence in ELA
Watch as a coach implements the seventh-grade ELA mini-performance task, Selecting and Analyzing Evidence, as planned in the Clarifying Intended Learning: Analyze Task & Plan video.
Resources
Resources
Professional Development Videos
Clarifying Intended Learning in ELA
Watch a conversation between an instructional coach and a teacher as they plan for a seventh-grade ELA mini-performance task.
Classroom Materials
Selecting and Analyzing Evidence - Student Work Samples
View a selection of student responses to a seventh-grade mini-performance task on selecting and analyzing evidence from a text.
Professional Development Tools
Protocol for Learning From Student Work
This protocol provides a structured process and a set of analytic questions to guide a collaborative discussion about student work.
Professional Development Tools
Analyzing Student Work
This template for analyzing student work serves as a place where teachers can keep track of patterns they notice in student work.
Professional Development Tools
Elements of Effective Feedback
This slide summarizes five characteristics of effective student feedback, as explained by Grant Wiggins in Educative Assessment: Designing Assessments to Inform and Improve Student Performance.
Classroom Materials
Selecting and Analyzing Evidence - Lesson Sentence Frames
These sentence frames scaffold students' use of academic language to discuss the Fears and Phobias article as part of the resource, Selecting and Analyzing Evidence Lesson Plan.
Classroom Materials
Selecting and Analyzing Evidence - Lesson Posters
These posters are used in the Selecting and Analyzing Evidence Lesson Plan to help students use academic language to discuss a complex text.
Classroom Materials
Selecting and Analyzing Evidence - Lesson Plan for Grade 7 English Language Arts
Using a Teen Health article on fears and phobias, this lesson is designed to teach students the process of analyzing evidence from an informational text, then support that evidence with elaboration.
Video
Universal Design for Learning
This short video provides an overview of UDL and its prominent role in ensuring that all students have access to content instruction.