Resources

=Argument= • [|Argument: What Are We Teaching and Why?] University of Michigan • [|4 Corner Debate] • [|Instant Debate] from Joe Bellacero • [|Interlakes Four Corner Debate] • [|Literature-based Four Corners Argument] •[| Mid Hudson Reading Council Handouts] • [|Social Barometer] • [|Teaching Argument for Critical Thinking and Writing] by George Hillocks • [|Woolvs in the Sitee] trailer

Common Core Resources
[|• Engage NY] [|• Common Core Video Series]

[|• NYC Common Core Library]
To support schools in meaningfully implementing the Instructional Expectations for the 2011-2012 school year, NYC educators and national experts worked throughout the 2010-2011 school year to develop Common Core-Aligned Tasks embedded in a unit of study. Each Common Core-Aligned Task is accompanied by a variety of instructional supports, including:
 * Culminating performance tasks
 * Guidance around use of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles for each task
 * Rubrics and/or scoring guides
 * Annotated student work ranging across levels
 * Unit outlines developed using the Understanding by Design (UBD) framework, aligned to CCLS Standards
 * Supports for helping students access complex texts
 * Additional assessments and learning activities (e.g. initial, formative assessments)
 * Task-specific supports for ELLs and Students with Disabilities

=Picture Books= [|Alexander, Who's Not (//Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to Move//] by Judith Viorst [|Earrings] by Judith Virost [|I Wanna Iguana]by Karen Kaufman Orloff [|My Brother Dan's Delicious] by Steven L. Layne [|Should There Be Zoos?] by Tony Stead [|Who Will Plant a Tree?] by Jerry Pallotta [|Woolvs in the Sitee] by Margaret Wild

=Writing Units of Study= [|• Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop] by Katie Wood Ray [|• Wondrous Words] by Katie Wood Ray