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​Prepared Lessons and Units
State Department Collections

• Louisiana Department of Education: First Grade
• Mississippi Exemplar Units: First Grade
• New York State ELA Units
• Vermont Writing Collaborative: Writing for Understanding Common Core Units for Teachers
• Delaware Literacy Concept Organizers
• Kentucky Literacy Strategies and Organizers

Independent Department Collections​​

• K-2 Read Aloud Project: Quality literature lesson plans with text dependent questions, tier 2-3 vocabulary, and writing tasks.
• Student Achievement Partners: Instructional Lesson Planning Guide
• Student Achievement Partners Text Sets: Lessons using a volume of reading on specific topics to support all learners in building background knowledge and vocabulary​ 
  • First Grade (Text Set)
  • First  Grade (Research Pack)​​​
• Bookworms Read Aloud Lessons: An extensive set of interactive read aloud plans designed to alternate with modeled writing and eventually process writing. 
• Storyline Online: The Screen Actor Guild sponsors read alouds by actors as well as CCSS aligned teacher guides.
• ReadWriteThink Lesson I Wonder: Eight 40 minute lessons on writing scientific explanations​.
• Common Sense Media Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum: These free K-12 materials are aligned to CCSS and can be accessed in iBooks or in printable form.
• Writing Fix: Hundreds of interactive writing prompts using mentor texts.​