English Language Arts
Overview
What is Literacy?
We believe literacy is a message-getting and message-sending, problem-solving activity, which increases in power the more it is practiced. Eastern Upper Peninsula ISD Literacy Team advances literacy by equipping educators and administrators with effective practices for all students from birth to grade twelve.
Curriculum
Development and Support
Comprehensive Daily Literacy Framework
Comprehensive literacy is based on key principles that are firmly rooted in decades of research about language, learning, teaching, assessment, and curriculum and shaped by extensive classroom testing on multiple continents. Components refer to the broad category of instructional approaches that are part of a comprehensive literacy framework. The components include reading aloud, shared reading, guided reading, independent reading, writing aloud, shared writing, interactive writing, guided writing, independent writing, and word study.
Learning opportunities for diverse learners include whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction that builds on each child's strengths and focuses on active and independent learning. Extensive experiences in reading and writing high-quality texts are necessary within good classrooms.
Alignment and Selection Process
Developed by the ISD and research-based to support district-level decision-making, the Alignment and Selection Tool is used by local and regional education agencies to identify the core components of existing and prospective Effective Innovations (EIs): programs, practices, initiatives, and systems. After identifying the core components of EIs, a decision to select or deselect one or more EIs should be made by following the process and guidance outlined in the tool.
Online Curricula
This site provides parents, educators, policy makers, journalists, and others easy access to the Common Core State Standards, as well as supporting information and resources. Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
MAISA ELA Common-Core-Aligned Units
Oakland Schools led the development of the MAISA ELA Common Core-aligned units of study that were piloted and reviewed by teachers statewide. This multi-year project resulted in a comprehensive K-12 curriculum that is aligned not only to the standards, but also across grades. These units are not scripts but are guidelines for teachers; we encourage educators to adapt them for their population and context. MAISA Units
Macomb ISD Literature Units
The elementary resources that follow have been included to fit into a rich Literacy Block with reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language instruction. It is understood that this unit will comprise only a part of a literacy block. The secondary teaching plans are designed to be a framework for discussing the fiction, informational, and media selections and will help teachers model for students how to read, think critically, discuss, and write effectively and successfully. Macomb Units (Please contact Lindsay Brindley at brindley@eupschools.org for login/password information.)