I’m just back from the International Literacy Conference and I was struck my some apparent elementary ELA industry trends:
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Principals, literacy coaches, and teachers all seemed to be moving away from basal readers as core curriculum. More often, they are now using them as supplementary materials. The educational standards are taking center stage as the organizing principle of ELA curriculum. In many cases, they are taking the “One Standard a Week” approach, which everyone knows is an odd way to organize curriculum. Despite that, they like the focus on core skills as defined by the standards. Many schools are using modified Depth of Knowledge (DOK) approaches with their own interpretations of the DOK.
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