by Oran Tkatchov | Mar 14, 2019 | AzMERIT, Curriculum, disabilties, EEI, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, Itinerant Teacher, language, learning, Literacy, LSL, Reading, Spoken Language, Teach and Enrich, teaching, Writing
Did you know that about 300 words account for more than half the words students misspell in their writing from grades 1-8? Click here to view the list and get a checklist to keep track of words you want to teach (or reteach).
by Oran Tkatchov | Nov 7, 2018 | assessment, AzMERIT, instruction, Reading, Strategies, testing, Writing
This webinar from the Arizona Department of Education provides support tools and sample items to assist teachers when helping students pass the AzMERIT ELA test. Click here to view the transcribed webinar.
by Oran Tkatchov | Oct 11, 2018 | AzMERIT, EEI, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, Itinerant Teacher, language, learning, Literacy, special education, Strategies, Teacher Leaders, teaching, Writing
This presentation provides the rationale for using sentence frames with struggling writers, as well as provides example sentence frames to use in various forms of writing including character analysis, compare and contrast, opinion, and others! Click here to access the...
by Oran Tkatchov | May 16, 2018 | assessment, AzMERIT, Coaching and Leadership, collaboration, Compliance, Curriculum, disabilties, EEI, IDEA, IEP/MET, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, language, learning, Literacy, pararpros, Reading, special education, Spoken Language, Standards, Strategies, Teach and Enrich, Teacher Leaders, teaching, testing, Writing
This document takes each of Arizona’s ELA Anchor standards and shows how each standard progresses at each grade level. This can be used as a tool to differentiate while still providing standards-based instruction in the classroom. Click here to access the...
by Oran Tkatchov | May 16, 2018 | assessment, AzMERIT, Curriculum, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, learning, Math, pararpros, Standards, Strategies, Teach and Enrich, Teacher Leaders, teaching, testing
This document, which can also be found by grade level under the content emphasis document tab here, provides a blueprint to what content is emphasized on the AzMERIT test. Math content sheets
by Oran Tkatchov | May 15, 2018 | ASL, AzMERIT, Coaching and Leadership, Curriculum, Deaf, EEI, instruction, instructional assistant, instructional assistants, language, learning, Literacy, pararpros, Reading, Standards
This document provides a comparison between Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards and the new ASL Content Standards. ELA Standards ASL Standards grade2
