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Teaching and Assessment Literacy Resources for Primary Grades

Teaching Literacy Resources:

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  1. Find That Day!: Using Days of the Week to Practice Initial Letter-Sounds

https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/00111/

  • Phonemic Awareness

  • Letter-Sounds & Phonics

  

 2. Powerful Content Connections: Nurturing Readers, Writers, and Thinkers in Grades K-3

  • Vocabulary

  • Reading Comprehension Strategies

  • Critical Literacy

  • Writing Strategies

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3. Amazing Authors: Developing a Writing Style (Virtual Tour)

          https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/balancedliteracydiet/Recipe/50009/

  • Writing Strategies

 

4. Word Study Instruction in the K-2 Classroom

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/word-study-instruction-k-2-classroom

  • Spelling & Word Study

  • Phonemic Awareness

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5. Parallel Learning of Reading and Writing in Early Childhood

  • Reading Comprehension Strategies

  • Reading Fluency & Expression

  • Writing Strategies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assessment Literacy Resources:

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  1. Creating Literacy Instruction for All Students (Chapter 3: Assessing for Learning)

  • Reading Fluency & Expression

  • Reading Comprehension

  • Writing Techniques & Conventions

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2. Reading Assessment Program Guide for Grade 1/ 2/ 3: Rubric and Reading Passages

  (Tools for Instructions and Reading Assessment)

  • Reading Fluency & Expression

  • Reading Comprehension

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3. Literacy Conference: Progress Checklist

http://snippetsbysarah.blogspot.com/2014/11/conference-forms-and-rubrics-for-year.html

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4LgEaJm_kXMSmNBZU1QUjRSejg/view (PDF Template)

  • Letter-Sounds & Phonics

  • Reading Fluency & Expression

  • Reading Comprehension

  • Writing Conventions

  • Spelling

 

4. Assessment Chart for Procedural Writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7afZtQmg16E&modestBranding=1&rel=0 (Video Instruction)

http://etfoassessment.ca/media/primary/rubrics/07_Assessment%20Chart%20for%20Procedural%20Writing_About.pdf (Print Instruction)

  • Writing Strategies

  • Writing Conventions

 

5. Talking to Learn: 50 Strategies for Developing Oral Language (Chapter 1: Assessing Oral Language)

  • Oral Language

 

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6. Let’s Edit with CUPS (Self & Peer Assessment)

http://firstgradeflipflops.blogspot.com/2013/04/im-featured-and-lets-edit.html

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2JjTrkxvrvnaTd3OTdtUV81Zms/edit (PDF Template)

  • Writing Conventions

  • Writing Strategies

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