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Ninth - Tenth Grade Reading

The Essentials​

• ​​​Standards Alignment Guide: Standard by standard guide for determining texts, questions and skills from the Delaware Department of Education and Elk Grove School District.
• Text Dependent Questions - Question design sample for each reading standard from the Delaware Department of Education.
• Why Text Complexity Matters: Dr. Timothy Shanahan
• ​Readability Formulas

              Strategies

ISBE Reading and Formative Assessment Strategy Guides

• Reading Informational
• Reading Literature

​William & Mary: Adolescent Literacy:
Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies -
Why, What, and How
AdLit: Classroom Strategies
Six Minutes: How to analyze a speech

      Lesson Plan Resources

​Literacy Design Collaborative: Templates that assist in designing literacy tasks aligned to standards. 

​Student Achievement Partners: 
Anthology Alignment Project (6th-10th): Common Core-aligned lessons for use with texts included in anthologies developed prior to the CCSS Grades 6-11​

                 Text Sets

Lessons using a volume of reading on specific topics to support all learners in building background knowledge and vocabulary​
Student Achievement Partners:

• Ninth-Tenth

Common Lit: 

• Ninth: Fiction and Nonfiction
• Tenth: Fiction and Nonfiction

​Teachers College of Reading & Writing

• Nonfiction Text Sets for Argument (Pro/Con)