ELA

Description

Okefenokee RESA provides professional learning to all member system teachers of English Language Arts, Instructional Coaches, and Leaders at all grade levels, K-12.

These services include, but are not limited to, the following:

Improving student achievement with the focus on a Standards-Based Literacy Classroom:

•  Identifying/implementing new instructional strategies
•  Identifying appropriate tasks for differentiation/acceleration
• Aligning curriculum and progressions of the Georgia Standards of Excellence 
• Aligning local objectives with state initiatives and student achievement goals
• Supporting schedules for a literacy block
• Using data to inform literacy instruction
• Supporting best practices in a literacy classroom

Providing support for GADOE, GOSA and local literacy initiatives:

• Growing Readers
• L4GA
• Foundational literacy (phonemic awareness, phonics, emergent literacy, engagement)
• Early literacy (fluency, vocabulary, comprehension)
• Reading beyond the elementary classroom (middle school & secondary)
• Media Specialist Job-Alike
• Literacy for Leaders K-5

Resources

• GaDOE
• GaDOE Instructional Resources for ELA Teachers 
• GaDOE Professional Learning Catalog
• Georgia Home Classroom
• Georgia Milestones Achievement Level Descriptors
• Georgia Milestones Resources
• Georgia Standards of Excellence and Teacher Guidance Documents 
• GOSA
• GPB
• Growing Readers
• L4GA
• Teacher Resource Link (TRL) 
• Young Georgia Authors

Suggested Professional Websites for Teachers:

• GeorgiaStandards.Org 
• Cox Campus​​
• CommonLit
• Readwritethi​nk.org
• Literacy Design Collaborative
• NCTE
• GCTE

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