Chapter 1: Working With Standards and Benchmarks
Chapter 2: Philosophies of Curriculum and Instruction
Chapter 3: The Role of Assessment
Chapter 4: Direct Instruction
Chapter 5: Language, Word Study, and the Tools of Writing
Chapter 6: Strategies for Listening, Speaking, Viewing, and Visually Representing
Chapter 7: Children's and Young Adult Literature as a Tool for the Language Arts
Chapter 8: Language Arts and the Content Areas
Chapter 9: Workshops in the Language Arts Curriculum
Chapter 11: Middle Childhood Language Arts: Sandy Cabernathy's Third- and Fourth-Grade Classroom
Chapter 14: Developing Original Instructional Units Based on Standards, Benchmarks, and Grade Level Expectations
Chapter 1: Working With Standards and Benchmarks
No Child Left Behind:
www.ed.gov/nclb
No Child Left Behind Glossary:
www.ed.gov/print/nclb/index/az/glossary.html
Education Glossary of Terms:
http://www.ed.gov/print/nclb/index/az/glossary.html
Constructive teaching through the deconstruction of standards:
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/tools/initiative/summerworkshop/index.html
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning:
www.mcrel.org
International Reading Association (IRA):
www.reading.org
National Reading Conference (NRC):
www.nrconline.org
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE):
www.ncte.org
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM):
www.nctm.org
National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS):
www.ncss.org
National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT):
www.nabt.org
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA):
www.nsta.org
The National Academies Press (NAP):
www.nap.edu
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT):
www.aapt.org
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL):
www.actfl.org
National Association for Music Education (MENC):
www.menc.org
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance:
www.aahperd.org
National Association for Sports and Physical Education:
www.aahperd.org/NASPE
National Art Education Standards:
www.artteacherconnection.com (enter and click on National Standards)
International Society for Technology in Education:
www.iste.org (National Educational Technology Standards for Students)
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Chapter 2: Philosophies of Curriculum and Instruction
Paideia Institue:
www.paideia.org
National Heritage Academies:
http://www.heritageacademies.com
Core Knowledge Foundation:
http://coreknowledge.org/CK/
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – Philosophy for Children:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/children/
Jerome Bruner and the Process of Education:
www.infed.org/thinkers/ bruner .htm
Community Montessori:
www.shiningminds.com
Institute for Advancement of Philosophy for Children:
www.montclair.edu/iapc
Carl Rogers on Education:
www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/ rogers .html
Professional Profile – Carl Rogers:
www. social psychology.org/psych.htm
A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Abraham Maslow:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhmasl.html
Professional Profile – Abraham Maslow:
www. social psychology.org/psych.htm
John Dewey:
www.infed.org/thinkers/et- dewey .htm
Sylvan Learning:
www.educate.com/about.html
Kumon:
www.kumon.com
An Interview with Henry Giroux:
www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Rahmani1118.htm
National Service Learning Clearinghouse:
www. servicelearning.org
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Chapter 3: The Role of Assessment
Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment:
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kbla9810.htm
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Chapter 4: Direct Instruction
The Association for Direct Instruction:
www.adihome.org
Journey to Excellence: Direct Instruction Resources:
www. journey to excellence.org/practice/ instruction /theories/ direct /web.phtml
An Evaluation of the Direct Instruction Program – Baltimore City Public School System
www.bcps.k12.md.us
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation:
www.grammarbook.com
National Educational Technology Standards for Students:
http://osx.latech.edu/students/s_stands.html
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Chapter 5: Language, Word Study, and the Tools of Writing
Jerome Bruner and the Process of Education:
www.infed.org/thinkers/ bruner .htm
Professional Profile – Jerome Bruner:
www.social psychology.org/psych.htm
Teaching a Concept:
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/Articles/taconcept/index.htm
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Chapter 6: Strategies for Listening, Speaking, Viewing, and Visually Representing
Hilda Taba (UNESCO Publications):
http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/thinkers.htm
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Chapter 7: Children's and Young Adult Literature as a Tool for the Language Arts
Japanese-American National Museum:
www.janm.org
National Center for the Preservation of Democracy:
www.nc democracy.org
Smithsonian National Museum of American History:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/
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Chapter 8: Language Arts and the Content Areas
Japanese-American National Museum:
www.janm.org
National Center for the Preservation of Democracy:
www.ncdemocracy.org
American Lung Assocation:
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=44352
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Chapter 9: Workshops in the Language Arts Curriculum
Jigsaw Classroom:
www.jigsaw.org
Professional Profile – Eliot Aronson:
www.socialpsychology.org/psych.htm
Teaching With Documents: Lesson Plans:
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons
Helsinki Accord:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/addm/osce.htm
Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights
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Chapter 11: Middle Childhood Language Arts: Sandy Cabernathy's Third- and Fourth-Grade Classroom
Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning for K-12 Students and Teachers – ANOVA Science:
http://www.anovascience.com/
CIBL – Center for Inquiry-Based Learning:
http://www.biology.duke.edu/cibl/
YouthLearn:
http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/approach/inquiry.asp
Inquiry-Based Learning:
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html
BIO – ED On-Line: Scientific Inquiry: Learning Science by Doing Science: http://www.bioedonline.org/slides/slide01.cfm?tk=10
Science Learning Network:
http://www.sln.org/
NCSI Learning Resources - Using Inquiry to Teach Social Studies:
http://www.nationalcharterschools.org/resource_listing_detail.php?id=71
Inquiry -based Learning: Demonstration:
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/demo_sub1.html
Inquiry -Based Learning Curriculum Resources:
http://www.teach-nology.com/currenttrends/inquiry/curriculum/
Heldref Publications:
http://www.heldref.org/
NSF: KDI: Inquiry Learning Forum (Multidisciplinary):
http://nsf.gov/cise/kdi/tools/lrng_forum.html
Battle Creek Area Math + Science Center:
http://www.bcmsc.k12.mi.us/
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Chapter 14: Developing Original Instructional Units Based on Standards, Benchmarks, and Grade Level Expectations
Merriam-Websters Words of the Year 2005:
http://www.m-w.com/info/05words.htm
Concept to Classroom: Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Your Classroom:
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/interdisciplinary/index.html
Virginia Department of Education: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Models:
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/newvdoe/curriculum-models.html
Interdisciplinary Curriculum Themes: UNESCO:
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_c/uncofrm_c.htm
Designing an Interdisciplinary Curriculum in Science and Technology – UNESCO:
http://www.ibe.unesco.org/curriculum/China/Pdf/IVilan.pdf
Access Excellence: The National Health Museum:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
CES Natiional Web: Asking the Essential Questions: Curriculum Development:
http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/137
Math Forum – Curriculum Development:
http://mathforum.org/mathed/curriculum.dev.html
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