Craft Category: Artifacts

UnboundEd offers Enhance Instruction tools, a set of free professional learning resources for teachers and leaders that focus on the application of content related to the standards in K-12 math and English Language Arts.

• The content guide in math aims to clarify what standards-aligned instruction looks like. Each content guide focuses on specific groups of standards and follows a three-part structure.
• Part 1 makes clear the student skills and understandings described by this group of standards.
• Part 2 explains how this group of standards is connected to other standards in the same grade.
• Part 3 explains how this group of standards is connected to other standards in higher grades.
• Example of a teaching guide: Counting & Cardinality: A Guide to Kindergarten Mathematics Standards
• The content guide in ELA focuses on fluency and demonstrates how fluency practice can be integrated into ELA and instruction across content areas. It includes four parts.
• Part 1 defines reading fluency and why it is important for overall reading proficiency.
• Part 2 provides insight into how fluency can be fostered within thoughtfully structured ELA instruction.
• Part 3 provides proven and practical activities, framed by the expectations of the standards, that can be integrated into the ELA classrooms.
• Part 4 provides guidance on how many of these activities can be used to support fluency beyond the ELA classrooms.
  • Example of a teaching guide: Building Fluency UnboundEd

modEL Detroit, an initiative of StandardsWorks, is supporting Detroit Public Schools in K-8 ELA by providing both planning and delivering resources to support teachers implementing the EL Education curriculum. It has developed Powerpoint slides that accompany each EL Education lesson, providing educators with a distilled and more manageable version of the curriculum. Each deck represents one lesson, and it is divided into teacher preparation support and student-facing materials.

• Teacher preparation slides cover:
• Purpose of lesson
• Learning targets for students
• Directions for facilitating different parts of the model, such as independent reading and small-group blocks
• Overview of module and units
• Suggested lesson pacing for teachers
• Student-facing materials cover:
• Learning targets and “I can” statements
• Student activities
• Checks for understanding
• Homework, where applicable
• Example: Grade 7 Module 1, Unit 1