1. Differentiated Instruction
2. The Six Traits of Writing: Instruction and Assessment
3. Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction
4. Curriculum Design/Essential Understandings/Guiding Questions
5. Curriculum Year Overview (curriculum mapping)
6. Instructional Strategies
7. New and Returning Teacher Support

• RAFT GENERIC LITERATURE and HIST

• Imagery Lesson: "How Do Authors Use Imagery
      to Shape Their Writing?"

• Comparison Contrast Checklist

• How do strong adjectives affect writing?
• Differentiation Articles 1, 2, and 3
• ELA Common Core Standards Grades K-5 (Word)
• ELA Common Core Standards Grades 6-8 (Word)
• Lesson Design Template
• Unit Template
• Writing Applications Common Core K-8
• Writing Applications Common Core 6-12
• Opinion Writing Unit Map Sample (Partial)
• ASCD PowerPoint (Philadelphia 2012)
• IRA PowerPoint (Chicago 2012)

COMING APRIL 24, 2012 - available for ordering now! (CorwinPress): Mapping Comprehensive Units to the English Language Arts Common Core Standards, K-5

"Kathy's book is the most relevant book for teachers, administrators and policy makers as we ramp up to theimplementation of Common Core State Standards.  Kathy takes the daunting task of reorganizing curriculum and assessments to the new English Language Arts standards and provides clear strategies to make the instructional shift.  We all need the support and good humour Kathy inflects throughout her book as we embark on this new task in public education.  It would be great if Kathy could make a personal visit to every district grappling with introducing Common Core, but since she can't be everywhere her book is a good place to start.

 

"Kathy's articulation of the new ELA standards coupled with templates, rubrics, samples of formative and interim task assessments are the combination of materials necessary for successful implementation. The book is useful as soon as it is in the hands of the reader."   

— Tracy A. Huebner, Senior Research Associate WestEd, San Francisco, CA

Lesson Design for Differentiated Instruction, Grades 4-9 (Corwin Press, 2009) 

"Her intensely practical and forthright approach allows readers to immediately translate the concepts of differentiation into their real classrooms."

— Modell Marlow Andersen, Dir. of Educ. Services, Hillsborough School District

Curriculum Mapping: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Curriculum Year Overviews (Corwin Press, 2006)
"Offering a new approach, [thisbook] is a valuable addition to the body of literature on curriculum mapping."  

— Constance Hill, Teacher Specialist, S. Carolina Dept. of Educ., Columbia, SC           

Staff Development Guide for the Parallel Curriculum(Corwin Press, 2009) 

"This guide provides clear, intelligent support for teachers and administrators to explorethepossibilities that the Parallel CurriculumModel brings to educators and students, and to translate those possibilities intoaction in theclassroom." 

— Carol Ann Tomlinson, William Clay Parish Jr. Professor of Education University of Virginia

Curriculum Design for Writing Instruction: Creating Standards-Based LessonPlans and Rubrics (Corwin Press, 2004)

"The author’s conversational style hooks and easily engages readers into the four-step curriculum design process, well-sequenced array of design templates and lesson models, synthesis of the six traits and writing process elements, and integration of history, social science, and sciencecontent."
—Carl Zon, former Standards and Assessment Consultant/Coach Connections, Sunnyvale, CA