Instructional Resources
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Math Daily Three
Background: Math Daily 3 is a mathematics framework that asks teachers to engage in three daily mathematics activities: Math With Someone, Math By Myself, and Writing About Math. This is a flexible model, allowing for activities to occur in a block ...
Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional Framework
Background: Developed by educators Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, the Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional Framework is based in research by Piaget and Vygotsky that suggest that learning occurs on a continuum of modeling, support, and ...
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
Background: The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Model is a research-based instructional model that targets the academic needs of English learners. There are eight components: Lesson Preparation (using meaningful, standards-based ...
Danielson's Framework for Teaching (FFT)
Background: Danielson’s Framework for Teaching (FFT) delineates and defines quality teaching via 22 components and 76 elements organized into Four Domains of Teaching Responsibility: Planning & Preparation, Classroom Environment, Instruction, and ...
The 5 E's
Background: Developed in 1987 by the BSCS Science Learning Group, the 5 E’s of science instruction are grounded in historical models of learning by Johann Herbart and John Dewey. They involve five instructional “moves”: engage (accessing learners’ ...
Daily Five
Background: Daily 5 is a literacy framework that asks teachers to engage in five daily literacy activities: Listen to Reading, Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, and Work on Writing. This is a flexible model, allowing for activities to occur ...
Understanding by Design (UbD)
Background: Understanding by Design (UbD) is intended to be an interconnected, backwards-design approach to planning UNITS of lessons versus discrete independent lessons in and of themselves. That being said, the UbD approach allows a teacher to ...
Integrating LevelUp Resources to Support Content Area Literacy
LevelUp includes over 2,400 texts that may be used within the literacy block of the instructional day. This includes hundreds of fiction and nonfiction texts that may also be used to support the content areas of math, science, social studies, social ...
Phonics Scope and Sequence
The LevelUp interactive phonics program provides a systematic phonics practice that builds students’ skills in phonemic awareness. Students progress through a fun, effective series of interactive ebooks designed to teach phonics skills following this ...
Motivating Young Readers
LevelUp is designed to help budding learners grow into full-fledged readers. When frustrations or sources of reading difficulty are overcome, students’ natural love of learning is allowed to flourish. When a student requires intervention, take ...