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Lily Wong Fillmore: Text Complexity, Common Core, and ELLs
Lily Wong Fillmore says the new Common Core State Standards require students to read complex texts. This is a challenge—teachers and administrators have little training in language instruction. What kind of professional development will they need? This YouTube video features Lily Wong Fillmore and can be found on the Understanding Language website of Stanford University.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): video
Literacy Club Planning and Evaluation Protocol
The Literacy Club protocol can be used to determine the degree to which each component of the foundational plan has been incorporated into a design for your school/district.
Publication: The Literacy Club
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): framework
Literacy Squared Lesson Plan Template
This lesson plan template was developed by the Literacy Squared team. Teachers can use this template to plan and align the side-by-side Lectura en español and Literacy-based ELD components of the language arts block. Coaches and administrators can use the Literacy Squared Observation Protocol to observe, monitor, and evaluate biliteracy lessons in Spanish and English, and support the professional development of biliteracy teachers. The Literacy Squared Lesson Plan Template is explained and exemplified in Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action (Escamilla et al, 2013).
Publication: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): template
Literacy Squared Observation Protocol
The Literacy Squared team developed this observation protocol. Coaches, administrators, and teachers can use this protocol to observe, monitor, and evaluate teachers' implementation of the Literacy Squared lesson plans. The evidence of teacher implementation can then be used to support the professional development of biliteracy teachers. The Literacy Squared Observation Protocol is explained and exemplified in Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action (Escamilla et al, 2013).
Publication: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): reference
Literacy Squared Writing Rubric
This writing rubric was developed by the Literacy Squared team. Teachers and coaches can use this rubric to assess students' writing in Spanish and English side-by-side. The rubric allows teachers and coaches to collect quantitative and qualitative evidence of student writing in two languages with attention to content, structural elements, spelling (side 1: quantitative) and bilingual strategies from Spanish to English and English to Spanish at the discourse, sentence/phrase, word, and phonics levels (side 2: qualitative). The side-by-side analysis of student writing in two languages using the Literacy Squared Writing Rubric is explained and exemplified in Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action (Escamilla et al, 2013).
Publication: Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Object(s): rubric
Multilingual Educator, Cummins Article
“I Can Show You That I Am Something” The Deep Structure of Effective Multilingual Education
By Jim Cummins, Ph.D. University of Toronto
Publication: Transforming Sanchez School
Topic: Professional Development
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Multiliteracy Project
The Multiliteracy Project is a national Canadian study exploring pedagogies or teaching practices that prepare children for the literacy challenges of our globalized, networked, culturally diverse world. Increasingly, we encounter knowledge in multiple forms - in print, in images, in video, in combinations of forms in digital contexts - and are asked to represent our knowledge in an equally complex manner. Further, there is international recognition that Canada's linguistic and cultural diversity are a source of its strength, and a key contributor of Canada's social and economic well-being. The challenge is to assist our schools in helping students to achieve a more diverse folio of literacies.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): website
New York Bilingual Common Core Initiative
Beginning in Spring 2012, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) launched the Bilingual Common Core Initiative to develop new English as a Second Language and Native Language Arts Standards aligned to the Common Core. As a result of this process, NYSED is developing New Language Arts Progressions (NLAP) and Home Language Arts Progressions (HLAP) for every NYS Common Core Learning Standard in every grade.
Publication: Caslon Community
Topic: Policy, Leadership, and Advocacy
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Object(s): website