This video depicts a second grade whole class engaging in a partner reading activity. There are 14 students in this demonstration and they are reading instructional-level text.

This video depicts a third grade small group engaging in an echo reading activity. There are 4 students in this demonstration and they are reading the text, A Dream Schedule.

This video depicts a third grade small group engaging in an alternated reading activity. There are 4 students in this demonstration and they are reading the text, A Dream Schedule.

The Virgin Islands State Literacy Plan (VISLP) provides education leaders with research-supported principles, guidelines, and recommendations for implementing best first practices in Tier 1 for effective literacy teaching and learning. The plan also assists education leaders to consider how best to integrate the Kallaloo Cultural Framework into school-based literacy practices to ensure students enrolled in VIDE places of education are prepared for further education, careers, and lifelong learning. The principles, practices, and assessment information are intended to assist leaders in ensuring they are able to support school leaders to develop school-based processes and practices for literacy teaching and learning that are research-informed and supported.The Roadmaps shared here align to the Virgin Islands Department of Education's State Literacy Plan.  With a focus on literacy as a shared responsibilty, these customized roadmaps offer strategies for integrating literacy in Mathematics, Science, History, the Arts, and the Health & Phyiscal Education classrooms.

Students learn the value of writing and art in science and engineering. They acquire vocabulary that is appropriate for explaining visual art and learn about visual design principles (contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity) and elements (lines, color, texture, shape, size, value and space) that are helpful when making visual aids. A PowerPoint(TM) presentation heightens students' awareness of the connection between art and engineering in order to improve the presentation of results, findings, concepts, information and prototype designs. Students also learn about the science and engineering research funding process that relies on effective proposal presentations, as well as some thermal conductivity / heat flow basics including the real-world example of a heat sink which prepares them for the associated activity in which they focus on creating diagrams to communicate their own collected experimental data.

This unit centers around two pedagogical ideas within the context of the secondary English classroom. The first is that by sharpening skills of critical analysis, students can use those skills across multiple disciplines and in their lives outside of school. The second is that students need more opportunities to respond to texts through the creation of their own texts. Drawing from work that I do in my own classroom, the structure of this YNHTI Seminar led by Dr. Ferguson, and changes happening in college-level composition courses like the First Year Writing course at UCONN, this unit asks students to apply skills of critical analysis to three visual texts by Clotilde Jimenez and then respond to those texts by composing a creative text of their own. Intended to be a unit done with students in the beginning stages of the school year, this unit will provide a foundation for visual literacy skills that can be put to use in other arenas of study both in the English classroom and in other classes throughout the rest of the academic year. For this unit, the three visual texts are all by the artist Clotilde Jimenez, an artist who works primarily in mixed media collage.

Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting.

Progress monitoring is the repeated measurement of student performance over time. It requires reliable and valid tools and a clear process to monitor the necessary students with fidelity. Explore our MTSS Fidelity of Implementation Rubric to learn more!

In this lesson students will create a paper face and a paper face book.

Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.

Students analyze the elements of a novel in many different genres and then hyperlink these pieces together on student-constructed Websites.

This transcript accompanies the "We're Ready for Text Structure" video which can also be found in eMedia.

Listen to a literacy coach discuss why it’s important to teach text structure beginning in kindergarten. She describes the differences between narrative and expository text structure and gives examples of teaching tools.

What should a kindergartner's writing look like? What elements should it include? Watch this video to find out.

This transcript accompanies the "What Good Readers Do" video with Dr. Nell Duke, which can also be found in eMedia.

Dr. Nell Duke, who served on the IES Panel that developed the Pratice Guide on Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade, discusses the recommendation to teach students how to use reading comprehension strategies.

What should a 2nd grader's writing look like? What elements should it include? Watch this video to find out.

What should a 3rd grader's writing look like? What elements should it include? Watch this video to find out.