Making Meaning of

High Quality
Instructional Materials
to Accelerate Learning
for ALL!
Eastern Elementary
Session 1
 Our Experts

❖ Heather - Piloted since August

❖ Sonya - Implemented since November
❖ Becky and Chelsea - Implemented since
February
 Our Agenda
Session 1 The Science of Reading and High
Quality Instructional Materials?
April 6 OR April 21 8a

Session 2 Program Overview

Stage 1
April 6 OR May 5th 8a Curriculum- My Grade

Session 3 Unit and

Assessments Stage 1 & 2
May 19th 8a

Lessons
Session 4 Stage 3
June 1 @ 8a

Learning Goal:
Make meaning of High Quality
Instructional Materials to Accelerate
Learning for ALL!
Checking In: The Change Process

Adopted from Knoster, T. (1991). Presentation in TASH Conference, Washington, D.C. Adapted by Knoster from Enterprise Group, Ltd.
Our Vision & Science of Reading
All WCPS students have the right to be successful and confident
readers and writers. Instruction, grounded in systematic, explicit
foundational skills and complex texts, promotes thinking and
builds knowledge so students communicate their ideas in the
classroom and beyond.
Grades 3-5 Program Overview Exploration (pgs. 24-28)

All WCPS students have the right to be successful and confident

readers and writers. Instruction, grounded in systematic, explicit
foundational skills and complex texts, promotes thinking and
builds knowledge so students communicate their ideas in the
classroom and beyond.

Circle Evidence of:

1. Systematic
2. Foundational Skills
3. Complex Texts
4. Promotes Thinking
5. Builds Knowledge
The topics included
in the CKLA
materials are
intentionally
designed to build
students’ knowledge
of the topics they
need for school and
for life beyond
school.
CKLA builds Knowledge Across Grade Levels
Explore pages 14 and 15 of the
Program Guide

● What do you notice about foundational

skills instruction as students move
through the grade levels?
CKLA builds Knowledge Within Grade
Levels

● Review your grade level content

overview.
● Then review the other grades to make
vertical connections
Session 2
 What’s the Difference?
➢ CKLA
➢ CKLA Teacher Resource Site
➢ Professional Learning
 CKLA

Only
available
for K-5

By just clicking on CKLA, this is going to take you to your

Units and online materials, tools, and docs! This is how
you assign digitally to students and access the slides that
are provided. There are links to all materials that go with
each lesson.
CKLA Teacher Resource Site

This site provides many helpful documents and resources.

- Teacher planner; under Planning Docs
- Common Core unit alignment; under Program Resources
CKLA Professional Learning
 Online Access
Bookmark this link
➢ Login with Google
➢ Programs and Apps
➢ CKLA
Time to Explore
Session 3
Scheduling
 Consider when shifting to CKLA:

Integrity- use the resource but

Fidelity- asking every Improvisation- TPT
make adjustments to fit the
question
needs in your room

“CKLA is a highway- you are NOT pulling off to change tire at the TPT parking lot!”
 Preparation vs. Planning
TRADITIONAL
PLANNING
Identify the lesson objective. What skill will I teach
my students?
Select a text to teach that objective. What text will help
my students “master” that skill?
Create/identify lesson assessment. How will my
students demonstrate mastery?
Plan key practice activities. How will I guide my
students to mastery (I do, we do, you do)?
PREPARATION FROM
STRONG MATERIALS
Identify the big ideas and essential understandings
of the unit: What will students leave the unit
knowing and being able to do?
Connect individual lessons and texts to the
essential understandings of the unit: For each
lesson, identify the lesson objectives, how they
connect to the larger goals of the unit, and how they
unlock the meaning of the lesson’s text(s).
Consider the sequence of questions and tasks and
how students will engage with each. Which are
most critical for students as they work toward the
goals of the lesson?
Anticipate common student answers to questions
and plan responses.
Practice delivering the lesson and get feedback.
 Materials for Today:
● Unit Introduction
○ CKLA -> Unit 1 -> Scroll down to intro
● Essential Questions
○ CKLA -> Unit 1 -> Scroll down to materials at the bottom
● EOY Summative Assessment
○ CKLA -> Unit 1 -> Scroll to last lesson of unit
■ *Unit 1 builds BOY Assessments into lessons; not official EOU
assessment
● Caregiver letter
○ CKLA -> Unit 1 -> Scroll down to materials at the bottom
● Unit Texts
○ CKLA -> Unit 1 - > Scroll down to materials at the bottom -> Reader
Unit Prep Protocol

Learning Goal:
What is similar and different
between this Unit Prep Protocol and
your current ELA Planning?
 Prior to Session 4
*Finish prework
Session 4
Unit Prep Protocol
Stages 1 and 2
 Stage 1
What will students learn?
What are the big ideas?
 Stage 2
What will students learn?
How will we know they have learned?
Unit Table of Contents and Assessment
 Some other highlights!
● Key Components
○ Skills
○ Knowledge ← ←
● Slide Decks
● Pausing Points
● Use the Resources in the back and side of
the books (Scaffolds)