Participants will see the ELA/ELD Framework in action and how the CCSS ELA/Literacy and ELD standards can be powerfully combined to address the language and learning needs of all students. We will share the development of a sample writing unit Marvelous Mice which incorporates opinion, informative and narrative text types. The unit is organized using the teaching-learning cycle which focuses on these critical phases of teaching writing:
- Building students’ content knowledge of the topic
- Digging deeper into language using the ELD standards
- Constructing texts jointly
- Writing independently
Presentations will include video clips, student work, text sets, and our reflections from the implementation of this unit in a first grade classroom.