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Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs

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Action ABC's: Learning Vocabulary With Verbs

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Many Kindergarten students come up with "action words" or verbs easily after demonstrating actions. Many of these emergent readers know more words thatn they use in daily writing/reading/sharing.
This lesson is easy to use in small groups and encourages them to broaden their vocabulary in a fun format, a personal Action ABC book. They can access and practice these new (and old) verbs easily and have unique collections they have designed!

Subject:: Early Learning; English Language Arts
Material Type:: Interactive; Learning Task
Provider:: International Literacy Association; ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 02/01/2017

Assessment Design Toolkit

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Assessment Design Toolkit

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CSAI has collaborated with the Reform Support Network to share this Assessment Design Toolkit. The Toolkit includes videos and supplemental materials to help teachers write and select well-designed assessments. Although the primary audience is teachers and principals, district and State leaders can use the Toolkit to design professional development opportunities.

Assessment Literacy Making Sense of K-12 Assessment for Learning

Assessment Literacy Making Sense of K-12 Assessment for Learning

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Teachers and administrators may use this resource to learn why sound assessment practices are critical to foster learning and how the different tools serve different purposes; find out what assessment results are telling you about students and learn what makes a quality assessment; and integrate assessment into teaching and the importance of keeping students invested in their own learning.

Epic! Books for Kids

Epic! Books for Kids

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From the website: "Epic! provides an unlimited selection of eBooks that can be instantly discovered, read and shared with friends. Personalized for each individual reader, Epic! is the only place to access thousands of high quality, curated children's books without the need to purchase or download them one by one. Beautifully designed for mobile and featuring fun, game-like elements, Epic! provides kids with a personal library they can take anywhere. In a world of unlimited screen time, Epic! is a smart alternative to games and videos. Epic! is available on all iOS and Android devices."
Availalable as a web based resource and a free app on any platform.

Subject:: Early Learning; English Language Arts
Material Type:: Reading
Provider:: Epic!
Date Added:: 03/20/2018

Evidence for Early Literacy Intervention: The Impacts of Reading Recovery

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Evidence for Early Literacy Intervention: The Impacts of Reading Recovery

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Four-year study that looked at the impact of a program called Reading Recovery.
The program trains teachers on how to administer Reading Recovery to 1st graders and found that it was effective at raising reading scores, and that generally, intensive early literacy intervention is effective.

Subject:: Early Learning; Reading Foundation Skills
Material Type:: Reference Material
Author:: Abigail Gray; Heather Goldworthy; Henry May; Philip Sirinides
Date Added:: 10/02/2018

Formative Assessment Explainer Video and Supplement

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Formative Assessment Explainer Video and Supplement

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Educators use formative assessment to continually reflect and improve their skills related to these practices. The Formative Assessment video is a resource that can be used to support educators' professional development related to assessment literacy. Use the Video Supplement & Resource Guide to enhance your facilitation of this professional development opportunity.

Hatching Chickens

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Hatching Chickens

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This lesson is intended to help students realize that they can learn a lot about chickensâ€”and animals in generalâ€”through close observation. They also should come to understand that it is important to learn about the special needs of eggs/chicks in order to take care of them, whether on a farm or in a classroom hatching project.Â This lesson can be used as an orientation for students before doing a chicken-hatching unit in class. It may also be used in conjunction with the unit to emphasize the importance of the proper care for eggs/chicks.Â

Subject:: Early Learning; Biology
Material Type:: Reference Material; Unit of Study
Provider:: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Date Added:: 03/15/2017

Human Emotion 15.1: Emotion Development I (Infancy)

Human Emotion 15.1: Emotion Development I (Infancy)

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This video is a lecture from Professor June Gruber, from Yale University. Some teachers choose to show the first 8 minutes as an introduction to one of the most basic human emotions, disgust. This video focuses on emotional development, and this video fits in when teaching about developing emotions in early childhood courses.

Subject:: Career and Technical Education; Family and Consumer Sciences; Early Learning
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration
Provider:: YaleCourses
Date Added:: 03/20/2018

I AM Reading Bookstudy

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I AM Reading Bookstudy

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Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or with staff for development of literacy practices K -2. This tool was designed by the Early Literacy Wisconsin State Reading Association Leadership team. This tool has been used with with teams wishing to deepen their early literacy understanding by reading, discussing the book. The use of the power point will enable educators to strengthen individual and team practices. This tool enables educators to dynamically dig into I am Reading by Kathy Collins and Matt Glover generating close reading and conversation of educators.

Subject:: Early Learning; Educational Technology; Language Education (ESL); Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Reading Literature
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Learning Task; Other; Reading; Reference Material; Self Assessment
Author:: Marietta Luckman
Date Added:: 08/02/2019

Identifying Effective Formative Assessment Practices Video and Presentation

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Identifying Effective Formative Assessment Practices Video and Presentation

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This video tutorial will help you identify effective formative practices. In order to improve student outcomes, it is essential that educators understand what the formative assessment process is and the characteristics of effective formative assessment practices.

Infant and Early Childhood Cognition, Fall 2012

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Infant and Early Childhood Cognition, Fall 2012

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This course is an introduction to cognitive development focusing on children's understanding of objects, agents, and causality. It develops a critical understanding of experimental design. The course discusses how developmental research might address philosophical questions about the origins of knowledge, appearance and reality, and the problem of other minds. It provides instruction and practice in written communication as needed for cognitive science research (including critical reviews of journal papers, a literature review and an original research proposal), as well as instruction and practice in oral communication in the form of a poster presentation of a journal paper.

Subject:: Early Learning; Psychology
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Schulz, Laura
Date Added:: 01/01/2012

Infants & Toddlers and Their Emotions

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Infants & Toddlers and Their Emotions

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This is a quick video showing how child care educators teach their students about emotions.

Subject:: Career and Technical Education; Family and Consumer Sciences; Early Learning
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Interactive; Primary Source; Reference Material; Simulation
Provider:: FCPS Early Childhood Team
Date Added:: 12/21/2016

Interim Assessment Video Explainer

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Interim Assessment Video Explainer

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This video and resources can be used to support educators' professional development related to assessment literacy. Consider using the supplement to kick off your next PLC meeting to enhance your own assessment literacy.

Kindergarten Readiness in Wisconsin - Report from a research study

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Kindergarten Readiness in Wisconsin - Report from a research study

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Wisconsin’s, gaps between Black and White student high school graduation rates (Richards, 2016) and Black and White fourth-grade math and reading scores (U.S. Department of Education, 2015) are the largest in the nation. These inequalities have led to criticisms of Wisconsin’s schools and teachers as ineffective in bolstering the success of students of color and those who are economically disadvantaged.

This report from researchers at UW-Madison describes differences in school readiness as reflected by literacy skills at Kindergarten entry among children in Wisconsin. We document inequalities in literacy skills by race/ethnicity, family income and place. Our results show that teachers and schools in Wisconsin face a daunting challenge in producing equitable educational outcomes for our children.

Link to full report here: https://wcer.wisc.edu/docs/working-papers/Working_Paper_No_2017_3.pdf

Subject:: Early Learning
Material Type:: Reference Material
Author:: Annalee Good
Date Added:: 08/02/2019

Kindness in the Classroom

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Kindness in the Classroom

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Kindness in the Classroom is a multi-part video series designed to give educators insight into the positive impacts of teaching mindfulness. The series focuses on implementing the Kindness Curriculum; a free 24-lesson mindfulness guide designed for early learning classrooms, researched and developed by the Center for Healthy Minds at UW-Madison.

The Kindness Curriculum introduces techniques to help students self-regulate and improve peer relationships. Participation in the curriculum has been linked to academic achievement and increased performance in areas that predict future success.

The Kindness in the Classroom series provides insights from educators and a guided mindfulness exercise. On the project website, you can watch the series, download the Kindness Curriculum, view the learning standards met and explore research behind the curriculum.

Subject:: Character Education; Early Learning; School Counseling
Material Type:: Lesson
Author:: PBS Wisconsin Education; UW Madison Center for Healthy Minds
Date Added:: 09/04/2019

Native American Cultural Children's Stories

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Native American Cultural Children's Stories

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The cultural children's story project allows students to explore Native American culture through a new lens by authoring and illustrating children's stories that teach children between the ages of four and six a lesson or tale unique to Native cultural traditions. The exemplar stories are laminated, bound, and given as gifts to an area elementary school with a primarily Native student body. Student authors read the stories to the children, and the books become part of the children's classroom library. The children learn cultural traditions from a young age and see their mentors (often Native students as well) as role models and writers. The authors learn the skills to develop their stories from conception to publication to presentation.Cultural Children's Story Video Lesson

Subject:: Character Education; Early Learning; English Language Arts; Literature; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening; World Languages
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Author:: Martha Handrick
Date Added:: 05/07/2018

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Observe, Wonder, Connect in Nature

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Observe, Wonder, Connect in Nature

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This series of 5 high-quality, standards-aligned, inquiry-based lessons have been field-tested by the 4K students of Wequiock Children's Center for Environmental Science, their teacher and educational assistant. These lessons encourage students to use natural areas around their school as they improve their science and engineering skills as part of a unit on observing changes. Created as a part of a WISELearn OER Innovation project, Connect, Explore, and Engage: Using the Environment as the Context for Science Learning was a collaboration of the Wequiock Children's Center for Environmental Science and the Wisconsin Green Schools Network. One of the goals of the project was to create standards-aligned lessons that utilize the outdoor spaces of the school . These lessons were created to take place during late winter.

Subject:: Early Learning; Environmental Literacy and Sustainability; Life Science
Material Type:: Lesson; Unit of Study
Author:: Sandy Benton
Date Added:: 06/01/2020

PBS Wisconsin Education

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PBS Wisconsin Education

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The PBS Wisconsin Education team creates and curates great educational resources, while connecting with Wisconsin’s most valuable resource – teachers. Our network of resource developers, teaching and learning advisers includes partners like PBS, but more importantly, it includes innovative educators and organizations throughout Wisconsin – a network that grows stronger with every project and idea.

Explore our high-quality, cost-free PK-12 resources at pbswisconsineducation.org.

Subject:: Health Science; Early Learning; Health Education; English Language Arts; Life Science; Mathematics; Physical Science; Social Studies; American Indian Studies
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Game; Reading
Author:: PBS Wisconsin Education
Date Added:: 09/24/2019

SLDS Data Use Standards: Knowledge, Skills, and Professional Behaviors for Effective Data Use

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SLDS Data Use Standards: Knowledge, Skills, and Professional Behaviors for Effective Data Use

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As state and local education agencies increasingly focus on serving educators with their data systems, a common challenge has arisen: identifying the critical knowledge and skills needed by teachers and administrators to use data effectively. Many states are creating data literacy and data use training programs for pre- and in-service educators without a common foundation on which to base the content. In addition, several state education agencies and educator preparation programs have begun communicating about how to create a stronger alignment between pre- and in-service training for educators regarding data use.

Strategic Assessment Explainer Video

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Strategic Assessment Explainer Video

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This video and resources can be used to build awareness among leaders, as well as to support educators' professional learning. Consider using this supplement to support conversations with parents/community, as well as to promote data and assessment literacy as part of ongoing professional development and PLC activities.