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Resources and Help

• Summer Resources 2010

  • 10th Grade Summer School Internet Resources
  • 11th Grade Summer School Internet Resources
  • 12th Grade Summer School Internet Resources
  • 9th Grade Summer School Internet Resources
  • EAP Response to Text prompts etc.
  • High School Summer Reading
  • Recommended Reading List with Lexiles
  • Summer School Standards: Grades 6-8
    Essential standards for summer school 2009
  • Summer School Standards: Grades 9-12
    Essential standards for first and second semester summer school, grades 9-12
  • Unit and Lesson Plan Template
    Backwards-design unit and lesson planning template, developed by OUSD secondary English and language arts teachers and coaches.

• Assessment Tools

  • Grades 6-8 Assessment Blueprints 2010-2011
    Benchmark Assessment Blueprints for school year 2010-2011
  • Grades 9-12 Assessment Blueprints 2010-2011
    High school benchmark assessment blueprints for school year 2010-2011
  • High School Assessment Calendar 2010-2011
    Grades 9-12 assessment calendar for school year 2010-2011
  • Middle School Assessment Calendar 2010-2011
    Assessment calendar for grades 6-8, school year 2010-2011

• Course Requirements

  • Middle School Reading List 2010-2011
    Draft version of middle school extended reading list
  • High School Reading List with Lexile Level
  • High School Recommended and Extended Reading List
  • Recommended Reading List with Lexiles

• Instructional Guides

  • Quick Look Pacing Guides 2010 to 2011

• Teaching Resources

  • Averil Coxhead Academic Vocabulary List
  • CAHSEE prompts: Expository
  • CAHSEE prompts: Response to Literature
  • Character Transformation Chart
  • Content Reading Inventory
  • Criteria for an Effective Vocabulary Program
  • Culturally Responsive Vocabulary Strategies
  • Dr. Kate Kinsella Strategies for Vocabulary Acquisition
  • Interviewing a Classmate Activity
  • Say-Mean-Matter
  • Six Strategies for Vocabulary Development

• Lesson Plans

  • 10th Grade Literature Unit: Persepolis
    Standards-Based unit for 10th grade students focused on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis. Written by Sonja Totten-Harris (Media Academy HS) and Tara Connoly (Oakland Technical HS).
  • 7th Grade Literature Unit: The Outsiders
    6 week unit focused on S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. Created by Mara Flores Naumann
  • 9th Grade Literature Unit: Fallen Angels
    Six week literature unit centered around Walter Dean Myers’ Fallen Angels. Materials created by Emma Batten-Bowman (Mandela High School); formatted by Jennifer Lutzenberger
  • Unit and Lesson Plan Template
    Backwards-design unit and lesson planning template, developed by OUSD secondary English and language arts teachers and coaches.

The downloadable resources listed to the left can be used to enhance and supplement your adopted texts and curriculum. You can download and print these resources, but not to search within the resources (consider them "paper-based" documents).

Instructional guide resources include printable quick-read guides that you can use to easily access highly tested standards for your grade level. Lesson Plans are teacher-created, standards-aligned units to support required texts and paced grade-level genres. Teaching Resources include a variety of inventories, surveys, and assessments you can use to collect information about your students and their skill levels. Scope and Sequence documents provide information about course requirements, adopted texts, and other district requirements for English/Language Arts. Unit Resources include supplemental assessments and planning suggestions aligned to the focus standards for the genre-based units in grades 6-11.