This resource was created by Moe Martin, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

These materials were designed as part of the Equity and Open Education Faculty Cohort in the Summer of 2020.
The materials are for IRW 90 -- Foundations of College Reading and Composition

This document contains three parts:

1. My Implementation Goals
2. Open Access Textbooks used in the course
The Word on College Reading and Writing
1,2,3 Write!
3. IRW 90 Course Calendar (Weeks 1-2) incorporating the open access textbooks with links to related activities and assignments.

IRW 90 Foundations of College Reading and Composition

Course Description
Covers reading and writing processes, topic development, and revision for clarity. Focuses on developing flexible strategies for reading and writing, and producing clear and coherent paragraphs and essays. Emphasizes strategies for comprehension and metacognition, critical reading and thinking skills, intellectual curiosity, vocabulary development, and writing conventions.

Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
Read to understand main ideas, supporting details, and a writer’s purpose in a variety of texts.
Use composing and reading strategies for comprehension.
Use reading strategies to write coherent texts that develop ideas in support of a central idea.
Use writing conventions (content, form, format) to communicate the writer’s ideas.
Use strategies to enhance and diversify knowledge of vocabulary.
Follow a process to access information in textbooks and other reference texts.
Use flexible strategies for pre-reading, reading, reviewing, rereading, correcting comprehension, drafting, revising, and editing.

This article describes the processes of making inferences and using context clues to define unknown words. Links to web sites and articles provide background knowledge and instruction for teachers and students.

Written as a teacher's guide for Misaki's Journal, the Teacher's Notebook contains vocabulary lists for each journal entry, activities that further learning and interaction with Japanese culture, and more.

Please also check out the Authentic-Like Interactive Materials for all materials mentioned in the Teacher's Notebook.

This article discusses the importance of teaching students to reflect on text through direct instruction and modeling. The article includes a template that can be used with elementary students.

An online pedagogical reference grammar of the French language that combines authoritative grammar explanations, self-correcting exercises and online audio with surreal dialogues and cartoon images.

 This lesson plan was created by Jani Randall, a sixth grade teacher at Elkhorn Public Schools in Nebraska.  The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for Grade 6 English Language Arts students. Students will read the article and then answer a prompt using text evidence in paragraph form.  Students will read the text, and then support claims from the text with their writing.  This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE 6.1.6IIt is expected that this lesson will take students 60 minutes to complete.

This Learning Plan was created by Mae Clausen. Educators worked with coaches to create Learning Plans.Brief Overview: Students will analyze and evaluate text features and the purpose they serve to readers as they deepen their understanding of nonfiction text. Grade Level: 3rd gradeLexile Level: 420-820     National Geographic "Quest for the Quetzal"  (All Explorer Pathfinder articles will be within the 350L-750L range)NDE Standards: LA 3.1.6.f Use text features to locate information and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of print and digital text.Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify informational text features and explain how the features contribute to a better understanding of the text.Duration:  90-120 minutes to complete.

An introduction to emotional and logical appeals, using To Kill a Mockingbird and the Civil Rights Movement as context.

In this lesson, students study issues related to independence and notions of manliness in Ernest Hemingway’s “Three Shots” as they conduct in-depth literary character analysis, consider the significance of environment to growing up and investigate Hemingway’s Nobel Prize-winning, unique prose style. In addition, they will have the opportunity to write and revise a short story based on their own childhood experiences and together create a short story collection.

This tiered task involves interpretive reading of an authentic school schedule and presentational writing to compare the schedule to students’ own schedules. This task is tiered by complexity of product (how students show what they know).

 This tiered task involves interpretive reading of an authentic school schedule and presentational writing to compare the schedule to students’ own schedules. This task is tiered by complexity of product (how students show what they know).Suggested Extension or Follow-Up ActivitiesIf students worked with different schedules, they could compare the results.Speaking activity – Students ask each other questions about the schedules.Students design their ideal schedule.Students give a “tour” of their schedules (Walk around school or use a map to describe schedule. En la primera hora, tengo la clase de español con la Señora Sherrow…)Image source:  "Child" by picjumbo_com on Pixabay.com

One of the most compelling novels of the twentieth century, Beloved by Toni Morrison has been read in classrooms across the country since its publication in 1987. The novel follows Sethe's escape to freedom, the murder of her child, and her difficult psychological journey as she copes with her past as a slave.  As both an historical account of the experiences of slavery and an insightful novel about a supernatural ghost, this text is ideal for upper level high school students and students in AP programs.

Short Description:
A workbook for bringing new voices into public debate based on the performance creation approach developed by Transforming Stories, Driving Change.

Long Description:
Can theatre bring new voices into public debate? Facilitating theatre workshops with community members who experience social marginalization is an art that, when done well, feels more like magic. But even the best facilitators are not magicians. With this workbook we pull back the curtain on the magic by taking readers behind the scenes of the Hamilton-based research and performance initiative Transforming Stories, Driving Change (TSDC.) Since 2015, TSDC teams have worked alongside community partners and performer-advocates to make plays designed to draw attention to the voices and visions of people whose opinions are not often represented in discussions of the future of the City. Through our performances, we have tried to contribute to building the movements that can make public leaders more accountable to people who are affected by their decisions. Five years and four plays later, we offer this workbook as a practical guide to TSDC’s creative approach.

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This nonfiction article, written for students in grades 4-5, explores the relationships between various tundra species: marsh marigolds, bot flies, and caribou. Modified versions are available for students in younger grades.