Networking Session
English Language Arts and Literacy
April 25, 2014
To Start Off:
Please reflect on what you will be able to
observe (see, hear) when you have successfully
implemented Kansas ELA College and CareerReady State Standards in your schools and
districts.
Teacher Practices?
Student Work?
Instructional Materials?
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Suite of Tools to Evaluate
Alignment
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
AchievetheCore.org
 Leadership Tools tab
 http://achievethecore.org/
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Types of Tools in the Toolkit
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
KSDE Kansas Guide to Learning:
Literacy
A comprehensive literacy guide to advance
learning from birth to Grade 12
http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=
5899
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Text Complexity
 KSDE website and Council of Chief School
Officers English Language Arts State
Collaborative on Assessment and Student
Standards (CCSSO ELA SCASS) website
http://www.ccsso.org/Navigating_Text_Complex
ity.html
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Student Achievement Partners and The
Council of the Great City Schools
Supplemental Lesson Development
Basal Alignment Project- Elementary
Anthology Alignment Project- MS and HS
Read-Aloud Project- K-2
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Basal and Anthology Alignment Projects
 Cooperation of textbook publishers
 District teams comprised of literacy, ELL, SWD, and other educators
 Examine adopted materials and write text-dependent, CCSSaligned questions for basal reading selections in grades 3-5 (BAP)
and grades 6-12 (AAP)
 Focused on evaluating existing questions for alignment and writing
good text-dependent questions to sources
 Require close reading of the text and preparation for the
culminating, text-based discussion or writing task
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Read-Aloud Project
 Student Achievement Partners and The Council of the
Great City Schools launched the Read-Aloud Project
(RAP) for the K-2 grade band.
 Written by teams of curriculum, English language
learning specialists, and Special Education educators.
 Text-dependent questions to go with picture books that
are above grade level and rich with complex text.
 Build knowledge and vocabulary
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
How to access BAP, RAP, AAP
on Edmodo
Go to www.edmodo.com
Create a teacher user name and password
Use the following codes to access the BAP, AAP,
and RAP codes respectively:
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BAP: f4q6nm
AAP: pkx4sp
RAP: pkx52i
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
KSDE Learning Resource Sets
What’s News at KSDE
 KSDE ELA Newsletter
http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=
5280
 KSDE ELA Listserv
kshaw@ksde.org or soertel@ksde.org
 KSDE Trainers
http://community.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=
5812
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
2014 KSDE Summer Academies
 June 3-5
Colby Senior High School (USD 315)
 June 17-19
Derby High School (USD 260)
 July 8-10
Highland Park High School- Topeka (USD 501)
 July 22-24
Abilene Middle School (USD 435)
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org
Feedback to Kris and Suzy
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Sign me up for the ELA Listserv
ELA Newsletter ideas
Learning Resource Sets
Kris Shaw kshaw@ksde.org
Suzy Oertel soertel@ksde.org
Kansas State Department of Education
www.ksde.org