CSCOPEEnglish Language ArtsSpanish Language Arts

Overview

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

Vertical Alignment Documents (VADs)

Instructional Focus Documents (IFDs)

Lesson Frameworks

TEKS Verification Documents

Year-at-a-Glance (YAG)

The Curriculum System

Instructional Focus Documents (IFDs)

ELA Conceptual Lenses

K-8: one lens for the entire yearK Beginnings

1 Relationships

2 Patterns

3 Journeys

4 Perspectives

5 Change

6 Interactions

7 Influences

8 Perceptions

High School: one lens for each unit

Unit 1 Relationships/Identity

Unit 2 Perspective

Unit 3 Transformation

Unit 4 Structures

Unit 5 Change/Influence

Unit 6 Credibility

Instructional Focus Documents (IFDs)

Strikethrough

A Concept-Based Curriculum

• Timeless

• Universal

• Abstract

• Represented by 1 or 2 words

• Examples share common attributes

A concept is an organizing idea; a mental construct...

A Concept-Based Curriculum

Key Understanding

Two or more concepts in a relationship...

Concept Concept

• Conceptual ideas that transfer• Develop “Deep Understanding”

A Concept-Based Curriculum

The Performance Indicator Formula

Content/Concept ProductProcess+ +

A Concept-Based Curriculum

The ELA Lessons

• are exemplars

• have integrated reading and writing

• are approximately 50 minutes (K=30 mins)

• include literary selections with alternatives

• include 5E inductive and deductive models

• include a research unit (grades 3-12)

• address the tested SEs before the test

The ELA Lessons and Reading First

Districts with Reading First must have 90 minutes of basal reading instruction.

Use the CSCOPE lessons only if there is additional time allotted for language arts instruction.

The CSCOPE Lessons and Developmental Reading Skills

In the elementary grades K-5, teachers use their basals, phonics programs, and spellers, and grammar books to teach the basic skills.

They use the CSCOPE lessons to teach the TEKS.

K-3 Teacher’s Guides

K-3 Teacher’s Guides

K-3 Teacher’s Guides

To find the guides go to CSCOPE in the

Resource Samplers

in a folder named

K-3 ELA Teacher’s Guides.

Lesson Synopsis / TEKS

Spanish Language Arts

To Access CSCOPE SLA

1. Select Curriculum Elements2. Choose Unit Maps3. Select your Grade Level4. Select Spanish Language Arts as your

subject5. Click Find

You will have access to the IFD and Lessons.SLA currently will not appear when building a

lesson plan.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) K-6

Vertical Alignment Documents (VADs) K-6

Instructional Focus Documents (IFDs) K-3

Lesson Frameworks

K-3

TEKS Verification Documents K-6

Year-at-a-Glance (YAG) K-6

The Curriculum System

• K – 2

• 2 – 4

• 4 – 6

Vertical Alignment Documents (VADs)

Vertical Alignment Documents (VADs)

Instructional Focus Documents (IFDs)

The SLA Lessons

• K-3rd

• parallel to ELA and translated into Spanish– Concepts– Key Understandings

•Address TEKS specific to SLA (ii)–Performance Indicator

Content Areas in Spanish

Lesson vocabulary and attachments:

• Math K-6

• Forthcoming:– Science– Social Studies

To Access Content Areas in Spanish

1. Select Content Area

2. Choose Grade Level

3. Spanish Unit is below English Unit