Posted by: sherylgray on: June 26, 2009
If you want to find the GA Performance Standards for your ELA classroom, go to the website gastandards.org. You may be pleasantly surprised at additional resources available at this site. I enjoyed clicking on the “Frameworks” tab and then “Reading Glossary.” Here you can find a list of literary terms and their definitions. What I REALLY liked was the annotation to these terms which explains that students should be able to apply these terms to texts but not necessarily define them in isolation. Cool! Our KSU grad classes preach that the way to make information long lasting for students is to have them analyze and apply, not necessarily memorize a list of facts.
You can also find sample unit plans at this website and an interesting technology feature that is new to me — video podcasts. Select a video by teacher and topic and see a live lesson in action. Very helpful.
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