Pacing+Guides

===Many of the teachers on our team create daily lesson pages, using their level wikispaces to organize our daily agendas. Creating Cluster and/or Unit specific pacing guides is a precursor to creating our daily lesson plans. These pacing guides are especially useful for Beginning and High Beginning, which will be splitting the Edge curriculum.===

Edge Pacing Guide for ELD and Literacy Support:

 * [|Edge Pacing Guide.pdf]

How to create Cluster-specific pacing guides for your courses following the general pacing guide at the bottom of this page:

 * 1) Create a new page.
 * 2) Name your new page according to the Cluster pacing guide you are building.
 * For example, "Fundamentals Unit 1, Cluster 1 Pacing Guide"
 * The name of your page should reflect:
 * The level
 * The Unit
 * The Cluster(s)
 * If you wish, you can create pacing guides for entire units rather than one for each cluster.
 * 1) Instead of creating a blank page, create a page using a template. Select "Pacing Guide Template" when creating a new page.
 * This will give you a page with the general pacing guide already loaded on it.
 * 1) Now, you can build your pacing guide to make it specific to your Unit/Cluster.
 * Add Edge page numbers for reference to specific activities.
 * Include links from the pacing guide you are creating to specific pages within your level's wikispace that have instructions for how to implement specific activities.
 * Add instructions/clarification to the pacing guide itself.
 * Change the order of activities to reflect a sequence more appropriate to your specific Unit/Cluster.
 * 1) Finally, include a link on this page to your pacing guide so other teachers can use it.

Links to teacher-created pacing guides:

 * Fundamentals (Beginning ELD)
 * Unit 1, Cluster 1
 * Level A (High Beginning ELD)
 * Unit 1

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Opening of Unit:
 * Overview of theme and essential question
 * Anticipatory activity

Cluster Readings:
 * Scan for vocabulary
 * Learn key concept(s) and Edge reading strategy
 * Reading with summary sentences and notes in the margins

Cluster Activities:
 * Create Cornell notes and graphic organizers for review
 * Learn key vocabulary
 * Post analysis questions/Reflect and Assess pages
 * Integrate the Language Arts pages (grammar, literary analysis, etc.)

Assessments:
 * Edge Cluster Tests
 * Edge Unit Exam (Literary Analysis)

//*Ongoing: quarterly writing formative assessments and benchmark//

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Opening of Unit:
 * Unit launch engagement activity

Cluster Activities:
 * Introduction and review of cluster vocabulary (foldable/Quizlet/etc.)
 * Vocabulary/Language Workshop
 * Before Reading pages in IPB
 * Post Reading pages in IPB
 * Reading responses (prompts/discussions/etc.)
 * Review ELD notes prior to exams (check/review summaries)
 * Integrate the Language Arts (vocab study, writing/research, etc.)
 * Workplace Workshop and/or Writing Project (Unit)

Cluster Readings:
 * Supplemental story re-read and comprehension questions
 * Student/group read-alouds

Assessments:
 * Vocabulary quizzes
 * Informal grammar quizzes (teacher created based on Edge tests)
 * Edge Unit Exam Grammar (except Beginning)

//*Ongoing: Grammar Book and Transparency practice// //Writing formative assessment support//

// **Refer to Edge Teacher’s Edition //

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