PA Roadmap: Focus on Effective Instruction
Educators know that there are students who require support in addressing unfinished learning from prior grades. Since time is a scarce commodity in classrooms, strategic instructional choices about which content to prioritize must occur.
The three sets of documents below offer instructional supports:
- Classroom Quick Tips: Instruction, Assessment, and Time Management
Each 1-page document offers easily doable instructional, assessment, and classroom/time management strategies – offering general strategies, ELA-, and math-specific suggestions for implementation. - Academic Strategies
Using the key concepts in the left-hand column, educators can complete a self-check for current instructional and assessment practices. After identifying areas of need, the right-hand column offers specific strategies/resources that may strengthen the selected concepts. - Focus Documents
Supported by key PA Academic Standards, areas of high-level focus in content areas are identified and defined. Note: While all standards deserve a defined level of instruction, neglecting key concepts may result in learning gaps in student skill and understanding and may leave students unprepared for the challenges of a later grade.
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- Classroom Quick Tips
- Classroom Quick Tips include instructional, assessment, and classroom/time management strategies:
- * General Strategies for elementary and secondary classrooms
- * ELA strategies by grade bands
- * Math strategies by grade bands
- General Strategies: Elementary and Secondary
- Elementary Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Elementary Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
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- Secondary Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Secondary Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Strategies: K-12
- K-3 ELA Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- K-3 ELA Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
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- 4-6 ELA Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- 4-6 ELA Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
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- 7-12 ELA Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- 7-12 ELA Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Strategies: K-12
- K-3 Math Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- K-3 Math Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
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- 4-6 Math Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- 4-6 Math Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
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- 7-12 Math Volume 1 Issue 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- 7-12 Math Volume 1 Issue 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
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- Academic Strategies
- ELA Academic Strategies
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade K Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 3 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 4 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 5 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 6 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 7 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grade 8 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Academic Strategies - Grades 9-12 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade K Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 3 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 4 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 5 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 6 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 7 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Grade 8 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Academic Strategies - Algebra Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
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- Focus Documents
- English Language Arts Focus Documents
- ELA Focus Document - Grade K Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 3 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 4 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 5 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 6 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 7 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 8 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 9-10 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- ELA Focus Document - Grade 11-12 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Documents
- Math Focus Document - Grade K Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 3 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 4 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 5 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 6 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 7 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Grade 8 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Math Focus Document - Algebra I Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Driver Education Focus Document
- Driver Education Focus Document Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Social Studies Focus Documents
- Social Studies Focus Document - Grades K-2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Social Studies Focus Document - Grades 3-8 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Social Studies Focus Document - High School Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Documents
- Science Focus Document - Grade K Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Grade 1 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Grade 2 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Grade 3 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Grade 4 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Grade 5 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Chemistry (Grades 9-12) Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Earth and Space Science (Grades 6-8) Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Earth and Space Science (Grades 9-12) Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Life Science (Grades 6-8) Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Life Science (Grades 9-12) Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Physical Science (Grades 6-8) Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Science Focus Document - Physics (Grades 9-12) Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Technology Education Focus Documents
- Technology Education Focus Document - Grade 4 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Technology Education Focus Document - Grade 7 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Technology Education Focus Document - Grade 10 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab
- Technology Education Focus Document - Grade 12 Opens up a PDF file in a new tab