Rewriting a Text in 6th Grade Science
In this video, students work together to rewrite a scientific text with the support of their teacher.
SOURCE: California Department of Education Professional Learning Module Series
In this video, students work together to rewrite a scientific text with the support of their teacher.
SOURCE: California Department of Education Professional Learning Module Series
Mrs. Garegnani teaches her 4th grade students about deconstructing sentences and about “nominalization” by looking closely at science information texts.
SOURCE: California Department of Education Professional Learning Module Series
In this video, Ms. Garegnani supports her grade 3 students to analyze the complex texts they’re reading for specific linguistic features.
SOURCE: California Department of Education Professional Learning Module Series
Watch Ms. Sovitsky as she uses a variety of strategies to support her students to learn a new general academic vocabulary word from a rich literary text she’s just read aloud.
SOURCE: California Department of Education Professional Learning Module Series
In this video, Ms. Sovitsky engages her kindergarten students in thinking, listening, and speaking during an interactive read-aloud with a rich literary text.
SOURCE: California Department of Education Professional Learning Module Series
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.
SOURCE: Building Educator Assessment Literacy
This short video provides an overview of UDL and its prominent role in ensuring that all students have access to content instruction.
FEATURING: Kevin Schaefer, WestEd
SOURCE: Building Educator Assessment Literacy
These guidelines articulate the Universal Design for Learning framework and can assist anyone who plans lessons/units of study or develops curricula (goals, methods, materials, and assessments) to meet the needs of all learners from the start by reducing barriers and optimizing levels of challenge and support.
SOURCE: Center for Applied Special Technology
The principal explains how study groups focused on Isabel Beck’s research helped teachers learn to use the vocabulary strategies shown in the Vocabulary Teaching in Action and Teaching Word Meaning in First Grade slideshows.
FEATURING: Warfield Elementary (FL)
SOURCE: Doing What Works
Hear third-grade teacher Susan Barbieri discuss how she teaches seven new words over a week and modifies instruction for EL students using activities such as photo cards, physical motion, graphic organizers, and assessments.
FEATURING: Warfield Elementary (FL)
SOURCE: Doing What Works