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**January 23, 2013 Professional Development ** (click above to go to the Content Area Literacy page)

Today's Agenda:

Resource Materials: Common Core Standards and Assessment
 * ====Maryland Common Core Curriculum Standards : []====
 * MSDE CCSS Sample Units : []
 * PARCC Frameworks and Assessment Prototypes: []

//MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA PROTOTYPE//--Grade 7 ELA Research Task: []

//HIGH SCHOOL ELA PROTOTYPE//--Grade 10 ELA Literary Analysis Task: []

Using a Multimedia Approach to teach English Language Arts (presentation adapted from MSDE EEA 2012)


Teaching Books is an online resource which allows educators to search for multi-media resources and lesson plans using a novel as an 'anchor text': TeachingBooks.net

Text-Dependent Questions and Common Core Standards Alignment link

 * This website includes hyperlinks to the Common Core Standards "Bookmarks" or "Templates" __by grade level which include question stems organized by Common Core Standard__!
 * Adapted from this resource: Grades 9-10 and Grades 11-12 **//Close Reading Question Bank//** handouts:



Adapted from Kelly Gallagher's //Write Like This//, Close Reading and Demonstrating Comprehension through writing organizer and prompt: 

Close Reading (Middle School)


= Close Reading (High School) =

(PARCC: A Common Core Unit, Lincoln's //Gettysburg Address//)

(MSDE: Public Advocacy Unit; shared at Summer 2012 EEA)

Text-based Evidence Resources
