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Literacy In Action
 Videos that share literacy practices in action
​Prepared Lessons and Units
State Department Collections
  • Delaware Literacy Concept Organizers​
  • Louisiana Department of Education: First Grade
  • Maryland Exemplar Units
  • Mississippi Exemplar Units: First Grade
  • New York State ELA Units (EngageNY)
  • Vermont Writing Collaborative: Writing for Understanding Common Core Units for Teachers

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.​ 
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