Find State Resources to Support Your Journey
Connecticut
- Resources for focus and support of close reading, writing, researching, vocabulary acquisition and use, and text complexity
- Resources for text sets
- ELA Resource Libraries - a comprehensive list
Kentucky
- Resources that support the understanding of text complexity
Maine
- The following webinars (most are 60 minutes) by teachers from Maine address topics and strategies through examining student work and teacher reflections (press "OK" to access):
- Asking Questions and Defining Problems
- Sourcing a Document: Thinking Like a Historian
- Building the Bridge: Strategies to Support Career and College Readiness Session 1
- Building the Bridge: Strategies to Support Career and College Readiness Session 2
- Comprehending Elementary Level Informational Texts-Determining Important Information and Synthesizing Across Sources
- Comprehending Elementary Level Informational Texts-Setting Purposes and Using Use Text Features/Structures
- Read issues of the Maine Department of Education's online newsletter, Literacy Links
Michigan
- Webinar by MSU professor Tanya Wright on vocabulary instruction through read aloud. Press "ok" to access.
- Video Lesson by MSU professor Tanya Wright read on a aloud lesson focused on vocabulary
- Video discussion with UM's Nell Duke on Using Informational Text to Build Literacy and Content Knowledge (Part 1)
- Video interview with teacher on Using Informational Text to Build Literacy and Content Knowledge (Part 2)
North Carolina
- NC Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) Livebinder of ELA Resources
- NCDPI Wiki page of ELA resources and news
Pennsylvania
- Find resources, modules, and information about close reading and text-dependent questions
Additional Resource Links
Need a 360 Degree Look?
- Check out this collection of resources built around Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda Monk. You'll find a roadmap for the anchor text, as well as a close reading lesson that models text-dependent questions. Finally, we've included a text set for students in grades 6-8 to build knowledge about the constitution and governance.
Text Sets
Interested in creating units of instruction? These text sets provide examples of how to organize texts around a clear line of inquiry to help students build knowledge about the world. The accompanying Guide to Creating Text Sets walks you through the process so you can create sets of your own.
