- Cathy Sligh, Literacy Consultant at RESA, designed these four lessons that can be used with current events to implement a literacy standard, especially in Science, Social Studies, and CTAE.
Strategies for Reading NonFiction Texts
Active Reading Behaviors Handout Statistics, Stories, and Star Statements Handout
How Quotes Influence Thinking Handout
- Val Allen is the Instructional Specialist at Blue Ridge Elementary School. She created the following informational writing prompts.
Grade 3:
Opinion Prompt Practice - Teacher Model Lesson Science Informational Prompt Practice Rock Cycle
Grade 4:
Changing the Conclusion Narrative Prompt Patriot Loyalist Opinion Prompt
Science Informational Prompt Astronomy
Grade 5:
Science Informational Prompt Practice - Teacher Model
Informational Writing Prompt Lesson Plan for all three grades
Joan Vampatella, a graduate of Augusta State University and an ELA Inclusion teacher at Harlem Middle School who specializes in working with students with disabilities, has submitted two graphic organizers that you will find very beneficial to your students.
Narrative Response Graphic Organizer Constructed Response Graphic Organizer
- Sarah Tapley, Instructional Coach at Swainsboro Primary School, created these engaging RACE lesson plans for K - 2nd grade.
Ready for Cold Weather (K) Ready for Cold Weather (1st) Get Ready for Winter (2nd)
- Lynn Murdock, Instructional Coach at Swainsboro Elementary School, created these engaging RACE lesson plans for Grades 3rd - 5th.
Grade 3:
How Did Pilgrim Children Live? Winning the Vote/Walking Tall
How Did Pilgrim Live?/One Room Schoolhouses Building a Railroad to Cross the Country
The First Thanksgiving - A Thanksgiving Dinner
Grade 4:
"A Courtroom in the Classroom" "Autumn" All Split Up?
"American Government/Get out the Vote" "A Colorful Man" How Did Pilgrim Children Live?
Grade 5:
"A Date with Rachmanainov" A Dream Schedule RACE Lesson Plan Saving the Animals/Water Worries
All Split Up? RACE Lesson Plan What is an Ambassador? The Giant Panda/ China's Population
- Kelly Flanders, ELA and Literacy RESA Consultant, has contributed a plethora of resources from her Close Reading Workshop.
Close Reading PPT Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Directions for Fall of Icarus
Close Read Task and Passage Triangle Text and Directions Lexile Stretch Bands
Close Read of Technology and Engineering Example The Fall of Icarus
- Mary Stout curated these invaluable websites on a variety of topics including lexiles, targeted text, vocabulary, current events, lesson plans, and much more!
- Kelly Flanders, ELA and Literacy Consultant at CSRA RESA, created multi-genre projects to demonstrate how to differentiate by engaging students in different activities.
Middle School Multi-Genre Project Lesson High School Multi-Genre Project Lesson
- These TIC-TAC-TOE lessons were created by Cathy Sligh, Science and Literacy Consultant at CSRA RESA, to model how to differentiate Choice Boards.
Tic-Tac-Toe for Middle Grades Social Studies Tic-Tac-Toe for High School Biology
- Mary Wilson, Instructional Writing Coach with Columbia County School System, has contributed a Constructed Response Professional Development presentation.
- Mary Stout, Director of Professional Learning at CSRA RESA, submitted Model Reading Lesson for "A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry. The purpose of this lesson is to explore how to teach reading with a challenging text.
Model Reading Lesson Text Handout of "A Retrieved Reformation"
- "Writing with Precision..." Literacy lesson was submitted by Patty Bradshaw, a Literacy Consultant at CSRA RESA.
Writing with Precision for a Specific Audience and with a Specific Purpose Sample Spreads for Concise Writing for an Audience
- Kelly Flanders, a Literacy Consultant at CSRA RESA, emphasizes theme, point of view, close reading and writing strategies in this unit entitled "What Makes Us Who We Are?"
Daily Lesson Outline Where I'm From Memory Organizer
- A Kindergarten List and Label Unit for introducing the writing process.
- This First Grade Narrative Writing List and Label Unit introduces the writing process.
- Teachers from Blue Ridge Elementary, Carver Elementary, Lincoln County Elementary, and South Columbia Elementary completed this 2nd Grade Fairy Tale Unit.
- This 3rd grade narrative writing unit is an excellent example of teaching the writing process using mentor texts. It was developed collaboratively by Michele Alison from Brookwood Elementary, Brittany Hershon from Evans Elementary, and Teresa Sellars from Euchee Creek Elementary.
- Mysteries! We all love them! This Fourth Grade Unit uses mysteries in the Narrative Writing process.
- Julie Cox, Glascock County teacher; Tiffany Eargle, Euchee Creek Elementary teacher; and Kristen Smith from Cedar Ridge Elementary created this 5th Grade Narrative Unit about writing a memoir.
- Patra Griffitt is a 6th grade ELA teacher at Harlem Middle School. Her lesson involves using fictional and nonfictional paired passages about Pompeii to complement a science unit.
- Patty Bradshaw, Literacy Consultant at RESA, created this 11th Grade ELA lesson using paired passages.
Using Complex Texts Paired Passages Introduction
"Ode to the Midwest" "What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland"
- Patty Bradshaw, Literacy Consultant at RESA, created this 9th Grade ELA lesson using paired passages.
Using Complex Texts Paired Passages Introduction
"Children Need Free Play But Are 'Unschoolers'" "The Properly Scholarly Attitude"
- Patty Bradshaw, Kelly Flanders, and Mary Stout, RESA Consultants, created this lesson on Narrative Lessons and Feedback.
All Summer In a Day Charles Eleven Effective Feedback Example of Feedback
- Tiffany Eargle teaches fifth grade students at Euchee Creek Elementary. Her lesson centers around helping students understand themes.
- Dawn Kozlowski, a fourth grade teacher at Cedar Ridge Elementary, created this Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) lesson as a task near the end of a unit about animals.
LDC Task LDC Rubric for Task LDC Sample Chart Student Sample Sample Sample Sample Sample
- Kelly Flanders, a Literacy Consultant at CSRA RESA, emphasizes close reading and writing strategies in this lesson on the Birmingham church bombing.
- Cathy Sligh is a Literacy Consultant at CSRA RESA. Her high school science unit examines genetically modified foods.
Genetically Modified Foods: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Safety Concerns?
- Kelly Flanders is a Literacy Consultant at CSRA RESA. This middle school ELA unit "Outbreak" uses the Ebola outbreak as the basis for extended writing activities.