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Designing Aligned Instruction is directed to those interested in learning more about standards alignment; selecting appropriately complex texts; matching texts to standards; and developing aligned questions, tasks, and activities.

We support you in your quest for a deeper understanding of aligned ELA instruction! NCDPI does not offer literacy credits and/or CEUs for this work; please contact your local education agency regarding any CEU credits. Submit your completed coursework to your LEA as proof of completion.

This Canvas course takes approximately 20 hours to complete. Within each lesson, participants may engage in activities, read informative slides, review resources, and view videos.

Disclaimer: The NCDPI ELA Team realizes that many districts and schools utilize their own lesson plan templates and, as such, this course does not include a specific lesson plan template complete with learning objectives, introductions/hooks, gradual release, etc. In order to meet the needs of our stakeholders and provide more effective professional learning opportunities, this course utilizes a flexible framework that can be easily adapted, integrated, or used with LEA or school-mandated lesson templates.

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Course Learning Objectives:

Participants will identify the aspects of aligned instruction.
Participants will select an appropriately complex text for their grade levels and match them to appropriate grade-level standards.
Participants will determine additional standards to integrate for targeted instruction.
Participants will develop text-dependent questions and activities to bring readers to an understanding of their selected texts.
Participants will develop culminating tasks to assess students' progression towards standards-mastery as well as knowledge of the text.
Participants will develop supports for students to allow opportunities to engage with grade-level text.

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