As a team, our school as chosen a variety of books that would best support our curriculum in each grade level and books that would allow students to have a variety of levels to choose from when selecting for themselves. Students will be able to move between classrooms with ease

There are many captivating picture books that build on student’s learning of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and California Social Studies Standards. Students learn NGSS material through experiments, reading articles, writing, and discussion. However, they rarely get time to read further about what they are learning in science in a

AIMSweb is a complete web based system that provides universal screening, progress monitoring, and data management for students at all academic levels. The program will screen students at North Tahoe School to guide teachers with effective and efficient decision making in reading intervention for intensive, strategic, and benchmark students. With

Using student-sized dry erase boards has become a standard part of our classroom instruction. Many years ago we created class sets out of old dry erase boards that were taken down from classrooms, but these are now very old and don't wipe clean, so it is time for new. Dry

A critical part of an elementary language arts curriculum is interactive read aloud. During read aloud time, teachers are able to model fluency as well as critical reading skills like inference and using context clues to find the meaning of words. This year's Newbery Book Award winner is "Merci Saurez

Scholastic News 3 is a subscription to a high-interest current event periodical which is written at an appropriate reading level for third graders to support their Reading Informational Text standards. Each issue comes with teaching tools that support our ELA, science, social studies, and technology curriculum. Additionally there are numerous

The Literature Circles are a culminating yearly event where students demonstrate their autonomous learning and developing literacy skills. As a final project in the English classes, students choose novels and reading groups on their own, set a reading pace with their peer group, conduct weekly conversations around their novels, demonstrate

For over five years, teachers and administrators at North Tahoe High School have focused on creating a culture of literacy with the goal of ensuring that our students are not only college and career ready, but also have the skills needed to access the different types of complex texts they

This grant would purchase a set of content aligned Reader’s Theater Scripts which includes student copies of scripts and a teacher’s guide for each of the scripts. These scripts are aligned with CCSS English/Spanish Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies standards for grades 1-6, which provides scaffolding for all

One of our goals at Sierra Expeditionary Learning School (SELS) is to facilitate a love of reading while supporting students to become proficient readers. Leveled texts are used to help engage all students in daily literacy assessment and instruction and are an essential tool used by our Reading Specialists (RSs)