The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction provides a website full of English Language Arts resources for teachers. On each of the grade level links below, you will find the unpacking documents for the ELA Common Core standards. In addition, you can find the CCSS Bookmarks, which include essential skills and concepts, question stems, and vocabulary for each of the ELA standards.
Reading passages, sorted by skills.
Author's site full of poems for kids.
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Timed reading passages to use for fluency (grades 2-5)
Riddles for teaching inferences.
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Good instruction includes a variety of delivery methods. As students are first learning new concepts, they need more teacher direction and support, but as they become proficient, they take on more and more responsibility for their learning and completion of tasks. The chart below is a simple illustration of the gradual release model of balanced literacy.
Craven County Schools has modified the 3 Block Framework diagram. Where it used to be separate columns, with each part independent of the other, the new model shows the parts of Balanced Literacy in a circle, with mini-lessons in the middle. There are descriptors of Language/Word Study, Writing Workshop, and Reading Workshop, which includes Independent Reading (IR), Guided Reading (GR), and Literature Study (LS). You can find this diagram, along with more information about Balanced Literacy, on the Instructional Toolbox. Click on Initiatives, then on Balanced Literacy. Or you can just click here!
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