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**Kansas City, Kansas Literacy Curriculum** **Table of Contents**

The Table of Contents is hyperlinked for convenience and contains short descriptions of what each page contains.


 * Classroom Library: Resources: Independent Reading:** Provides classroom teachers with rationales for why Monitored Independent Reading Program (MIRP) is important and ways of engaging students in Independent Reading. It provides tools for teachers to help students select texts, how to know if students have the right texts and various ways to monitor students reading in the classroom.
 * Setting up the Environment
 * Guiding Principles of MIRP
 * Benefits of MIRP
 * Factors for Success
 * Helping students select books
 * Why Monitoring is Important
 * How to Monitor Student Reading


 * Curriculum Resources:** Provides teachers with documents and videos to help understand the Common Core and its development. Video links are included as well as other resources to support understanding of the Common Core. Here you will find:
 * Novel Delegation for each school and grade level
 * Criteria for Creating Curriculum
 * Common Core Curriculum Maps
 * Leon County Schools Curriculum Units
 * Challenge and Project Based Learning
 * Poetry Units
 * KCK Draft Units Developed in Cadres
 * Websites to help develop curriculum

__**Common Core Resources**__: This page contains the literature that surrounds the Common Core including the research and importance behind their design. It includes:
 * Appendix A: The importance of Text Complexity in the Classroom
 * Appendix B: Includes Text Exemplars that represent the types of grade level complexity required by the Common Core Standards
 * Appendix C: Student Writing K-12 that models what student writing looks like that meets that standards that are set forth by the Common Core.

__**District Assessments:**__ This has resources and information concerning the ACT Explore, PLAN and the actual ACT. Although teaching to the ACT test is extremely difficult, students knowing how to navigate through this test is critical. This page contains documents that help explain the following:
 * Writing Prompts by Grade Level organized by quarter
 * Scoring Keys for each type of writing by grade level
 * Guides to the ACT
 * College Readiness Benchmarks
 * Standards matched to ACT
 * Description of College Readiness Standards
 * Preparing for the ACT

**Instructional Resources**:


 * Language Resources**: This page gives resources to help teach the Language Standards. Grammar studied and learned within the context of student writing has shown positive results in improving writing. The resources here support the teaching of grammar within student writing.
 * 3 Ways to incorporate Grammar into Daily Instruction
 * Grammar Journals
 * Resources for teaching Grammar and Conventions
 * Vocabulary Development


 * Online Tex** t**s** **: T**his is a list of informational texts and texts that are public domain that are designated by grade level. The informational texts were supplied for teachers in order to have a centralized place to identify engaging and interesting articles. This also has titles that are suggested by the Common Core for the grade levels. Included are:
 * Informational Text Websites
 * Literary and Literary Non-Fiction Texts
 * Appendix B Online Texts
 * Short Stories, Poems and Novels online
 * Informational Articles (Article of the Week)


 * Pacing Guides:** This page contains the KCK pacing guides for grades 6-12 Language Arts as well as for Speech Courses in the district. It outlines the clusters of standards taught in each unit of study and information on how to utilize the Pacing Guides.
 * Anchor Standards
 * Pacing Guides 6-12 ELA
 * Speech Pacing Guides
 * Clusters of standards in units of study
 * Utilizing Pacing Guides


 * PLC resources**: Professional Learning Communities are a driving force in Kansas City, Kansas. This page contains a variety of resources including articles, blogs, websites, protocols for looking at student work and ways to facilitate PLCs. Included on this page:
 * Definitions of a PLC
 * Articles and Blogs over PLCs
 * What a PLC is not
 * Protocols for PLCs
 * Choosing Essential Standards
 * Articles and Blogs for Study

Reading Resources This page includes resources on text based questioning and reading strategies based on the Reading Next Report created by the Alliance for Excellence in Education.
 * Close Reading of Text
 * How to Question the Text
 * Reading Strategies for the Common Core
 * Performance Tasks for Clusters of Standards

On this page you will find:
 * Speaking and Listening Resources:** This page will include ways of utilizing the Speaking and Listening standards including ways to work in groups, to make presentations, forms to help students identify key points in speakers as well as other resources.
 * Socratic Seminar Resources
 * Text Based Discussion
 * Resources for Speaking and Listening


 * Technology Resources:** This pages holds some tutorials and some ideas on how to incorporate technology in the classroom from google docs, to social media, to blogging. Technology is an enhancement and a tool to help in understanding of curriculum.
 * How to use Google Docs
 * How to use Prezi
 * How to use Skype
 * How to use Edmodo
 * How to use Twitter
 * How to use Facebook
 * How to Blog
 * Technology Tips


 * Text Complexity Resources:** This page gives information on the the three areas of Text Complexity and why they are important. This page holds implications on the types of text that we choose to place in front of students for independent reading and instructional reading.
 * Text Sequence of Novels in KCK
 * Genre Wheel
 * Tools for Evaluating Text Complexity
 * Research behind Text Complexity


 * Writing Resources**: This page provides resources to support the Writing Standards and Guaranteed Writing Experiences. Many of the resources are based on the Writing Next Report whose research was done by the Alliance for Excellence in Education. It identifies the 11practices that had the highest impact on student achievement.
 * Argumentative Writing
 * Narrative Writing
 * Informational Writing
 * Creative Writing
 * Production and Distribution of Writing
 * Researching to Build and Present Knowledge
 * Writing Across the Curriculum
 * On Demand Writing
 * PLC Resources


 * Glossary:** A list of frequently used words with definitions that allow KCK teachers to use a common language as well as identifying some key terms that are embedded in the Common Core.

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