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Teaching and Reinforcing Conative Skills- Research on changing teacher perception and response to conflict. 

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Teaching and Reinforcing Conative Skills- Research on changing teacher perception and response to conflict. 

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https://consciousdiscipline.com/research/peer-reviewed-articles.asp

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Ideas and examples of how to teach and enforce practical classroom procedures.

http://www.omro.k12.wi.us/cms_files/resources/Classroom%20Procedures%20and%20Routines.pdf

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Structuring Intentional Interactions- Designing a lesson to support cooperative learning. 

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Structuring Intentional Interactions- Designing a lesson to support cooperative learning. 

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Wildlife Reserve-SeaWorld Classroom Activity -

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An article on teaching and helping students to have a growth mindset

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Contrary to popular belief, high achievement isn't merely a product of talent and ability.

In fact, our internal beliefs about our own abilities, skills, and potential actually fuel behavioral patterns and predict success. Leading Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck argues that the pivotal quality separating successful people from their unsuccessful counterparts is whether they think their intelligence can be developed versus believing it is fixed.

"There is no relation between students' abilities or intelligence and the development of mastery-oriented qualities. Some of the very brightest students avoid challenges, dislike effort, and wilt in the face of difficulty. And some of the less bright students are real go-getters, thriving on challenge, persisting intensely when things get difficult, and accomplishing more than you expected.

A person with a fixed mindset believes that his or her intelligence is static, while a person with a growth mindset believes that his or her intelligence can be developed. The latter group is thus more likely to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, and see effort as a natural path to mastery. The distinction between these two extremes has tremendous implications for motivation, productivity, and confidence; in the pursuit of success, mindset is everything.

A growth mindset has a sizable impact on business efficacy and is a determinant of successful athletes. It is a critical factor separating high achieving students from those who struggle in the classroom, and is thus often discussed in the context of its applications for education. A growth mindset has been repeatedly identified as a robust predictor of academic success; it increases students' motivation, grades, achievement, and test scores.

The good news: a growth mindset can be taught. Dweck found that when students undertook an intervention to move them from a fixed to growth mindset, they immediately began performing at higher levels and achieved greater academic success. In fact, strategies and teaching methods geared toward cultivating this mindset in students are gaining widespread traction. It is accordingly well-documented that the most successful countries in the world base schooling on growth mindset messages and beliefs.

Integrating growth mindset-oriented learning processes into the classroom, then, can have a beneficial impact on learning. Let's talk about how to do it.

Strategies for helping students develop a growth mindset

1. Think about setting achievable micro-goals to encourage students' consistent, incremental progress. Small wins repeated over time can lead to a growth mindset (and increased confidence!).

2. When students succeed, praise their efforts and strategies as opposed to their intelligence. Praise for intelligence can actually undermine motivation and performance, as children praised for intelligence increasingly view intelligence as a fixed trait; in the face of failure, these children will display less task persistence, less task enjoyment, and overall worse performance.

3. Help students focus on and value the process of learning. Without this emphasis on learning, students will often base self perceptions of intelligence and worth to grades received, promoting a fixed mindset. While grades are important, the value of learning should be prioritized.

4. Design classroom activities that involve cooperative--rather than competitive or individualistic--work. Research suggests that students are more motivated and successful when working in groups. Students feel a sense of responsibility to the group to try their best, and thus will experience the positive feedback loop of effort and success, encouraging the development of a growth mindset.

Are there other strategies you use in the classroom to help your students develop a growth mindset? Which do you find most effective?

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4 Ways to Encourage a Growth Mindset in the Classroom - EdSurge News

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Contrary to popular belief, high achievement isn't merely a product of talent and ability. In fact, our internal beliefs about our own abilities, skills, and potential actually fuel behavioral patterns and predict success. Leading Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck argues that the pivotal quality separating successful people from their unsuccessful counterparts is whether they think their intelligence can be developed versus believing it is fixed.

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https://www.amle.org/BrowsebyTopic/WhatsNew/WNDet/TabId/270/ArtMID/888/ArticleID/585/Soft-Skills-Preparing-Kids-for-Life-After-School.aspxhttps://www.amle.org/BrowsebyTopic/WhatsNew/WNDet/TabId/270/ArtMID/888/ArticleID/585/Soft-Skills-Preparing-Kids-for-Life-After-School.aspx

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This is a website that is full of awesome Kagan strategies that are useful for all grades.

https://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/dr_spencer_kagan/281/Kagan-Structures-A-Miracle-of-Active-Engagement

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Planning Meaningful Tasks Sparking Curiosity and Solving Real-World ProblemsSee how students apply their literacy skills to explore science problems outside classroom walls.

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Planning Meaningful Tasks Sparking Curiosity and Solving Real-World ProblemsSee how students apply their literacy skills to explore science problems outside classroom walls.

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A video from www.edutopia.org that promotes

Self-Directed Learning

https://www.edutopia.org/article/thinkering-studio-supporting-self-directed-learning

Here's another video from www.edutopia.org that promotes real world problem solving.

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Sparking Curiosity and Solving Real-World Problems

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See how students apply their literacy skills to explore science problems outside classroom walls.

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This site has wonderful information about how to set up your classroom for student interaction & why it's important.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/certop/imp_ssi.html

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Scale for addressing your ability to identify critical content

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Scale for addressing your ability to identify critical content

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How to use backwards design for effective lesson planning!!
http://www.kognity.com/using-backwards-design/

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This is good for creating mini book clubs in the classroom. It outlines the sessions of discussion to increase understanding of the book.

http://www.readwritethink.org/resources/resource-print.html?id=1163

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Gives 30 ideas on how to organize classroom groups

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Ways to Arrange Students for Group Work - TeachHUB

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When in the classroom, or virtually, putting students in groups can be an effective teaching strategy. Explore our ways to arrange students for group work.

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Golden Rules for Engaging Students Learning Activites

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Golden Rules for Engaging Students Learning Activites

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http://edutopia.org/blog/golden-rules-for-engaging-students-incolas-pino-james

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This is a PDF for interactive classroom strategies. I found examples on page 68 and on!
chrome-extension://mloajfnmjckfjbeeofcdaecbelnblden/https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/SAIL/documents/InteractiveClassroomStrategiesandStructuresforSuccess-Dr.FranciscaSanchez.pdf

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Growth Mindset books for your students- Conative 

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Growth Mindset books for your students- Conative 

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Start off the year with a BANG!!! Growth mindset/ kid friendly books.
http://whimsyworkshopteaching.com/ideas/growth-mindset-classroom/http://whimsyworkshopteaching.com/ideas/growth-mindset-classroom/

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This is a 45 second YouTube clip from a teenager addressing students on how and why to take in various perspectives from others.

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Just Listen: Seeking Diverse Perspectives

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Arielle, in grade 10, describes the value of discussing ideas with students whose backgrounds are different from hers. "Your teachers put you in groups with different people to get different ideas," she says. "If you're in a group with all the same type of people, you're only gonna get one idea."

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Contains powerpoints, worksheets, and activities for high school science students.

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planet earth deciduous forests worksheet

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Aurum Science Environmental Science Resources for Teachers

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Free environmental science resources for science teachers grades 7-12+.

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This PDF will help teachers monitor for understanding by activating prior knowledge.Teachers will explain how to use "prior knowledge inventory sheet" with partners. Students will learn to interact with peers through brainstorming together.

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This is a website that lists specific researched based reading strategies that you can have students do before, during or after reading.

http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies

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Articles with ideas for establishing classroom routines such as traffic flow, preparing students for entry, pencil sharpener, posting signs,  and preparing students to leave the classroom. http://www.dailyteachingtools.com/classroom-routines.html

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How to Plan Transformational Lessons

1. Know the Standards, Curriculum, Core Concepts, and Strategies: For decades, many educators let a textbook's table of contents determine the scope and sequence of a course. Today, transformational teachers know their anchor standards by heart and recognize the difference between teaching strategies and learning strategies.

Teaching strategies are approaches that teachers use to improve student learning. Example: whole-class discussion or presentation.

Learning strategies are initiated and controlled by students to solve problems and increase their understanding. Example: using freewriting, brainstorming, and outlining to organize ideas.

Balancing teaching strategies with learning strategies keeps instructors and students actively engaged and focused on the same purpose.

2. Shift From Solo to Collaborative Lesson Design: As teachers gain fluency in using Padlet, Google Hangouts, Evernote, Skype, Dropbox, Hackpad, Google Drive, and Chatzy, collaborative planning is becoming second nature.

Additionally, more sharing of relevant curriculum is occurring via terrific open education resources (OER) like EngageNY, OER Commons, CK-12, and even iTunesU.

3. Create the Assessment Before Developing Content: Due in part to the influence of Understanding by Design (UbD) by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, transformational instructors no longer "teach then test." Instead, they " design the test, then teach." By building formative assessment and performance task checkpoints into their plans, instructors know when and why students don't understand a skill or concept.

4. Write Objectives for Students (Not an Administrator) to Read: A while back, teachers submitted lesson plans for their principals to check. In many cases, the administrator remained the primary audience for written objectives. Today, objectives are posted and made understandable to students. To ensure clarity, transformational teachers follow the Goldilocks rule. Objectives can't be too general ("students will learn about the Civil War") or too narrow, because narrow objectives "put you in danger of listing activities or assignments," writes Robyn R. Jackson in Never Work Harder Than Your Students & Other Principles of Great Teaching.

Here's another objective hack: To add relevance to the curriculum, simply add the stem "so that _____" at the end of each posted objective as a way of describing how the skill and content will benefit students. Example: "Students will be able to evaluate the credibility of sources so that they can protect our democracy from the influence of those spreading misinformation."

5. Create Presentations That Do More Showing and Less Telling: On the rare occasion that transformational teachers lecture, they are sure to use visuals created with tools like Canva and Pic Monkey. Using pictures can "banish boredom," asserts Dan Roam, author of Show and Tell. To keep pace with the 30 percent of students who access online videos for homework assistance, teachers' materials have become more interactive and optimized for mobile device consumption.

6. Don't Forget the Introverts: "Introverts like to work autonomously," says Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, "but the trend in education over the past 20 years has been focused on group learning." Cain notes that popular teaching strategies like cold calling don't allow introverts time to process what they want to say. Adding a think-pair-share activity or increasing wait time to seven seconds after asking a question plays to the strengths of introverts.

7. Provide More Opportunities for Students to Choose How They Accomplish Tasks: danah boyd's research determined that teenagers' lives are over-programmed: "Contemporary teens often have little freedom to connect with others on their own terms." A boost to student motivation can occur, says Kevin Perks in Crafting Effective Choices to Motivate Students, if we let learners determine-when possible-whom they work with, content, due dates, where to work, and how they will complete tasks.

8. Plan Ahead: Transformational teachers plan at least a month ahead, building in flex time to absorb inevitable weather- or activity-related interruptions in the school schedule. Through careful design, each time a learner encounters skills and concepts, they are more challenging. The spiral curriculum approach increases understanding and retention.

9. Integrate Productive Struggle Into the Curriculum: Lubricating the learning process with frictionless turn-in-the-worksheet compliance denies students opportunities for productive struggle-a condition important for learning and retention, according to an article by Richard Schmidt and Robert Bjork in Psychological Science. When students struggle, relax. Don't lower the expectations of your next lesson plan. Instead, scaffold instruction and check to see that you're challenging students appropriately with Hess's Cognitive Rigor Matrix.

Quality curriculum planning-publicly unacknowledged, unglamorous, and taxing-is ultimately the golden road to areté (Homer's word for "exemplary effectiveness"). Undoubtedly the tenets of effective planning will soon change, because transformational teachers never stop learning.

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9 Ways to Plan Transformational Lessons: Planning the Best Curriculum Unit Ever

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1. Know the Standards, Curriculum, Core Concepts, and Strategies: For decades, many educators let a textbook's table of contents determine the scope and sequence of a course. Today, transformational teachers know their anchor standards by heart and recognize the difference between teaching strategies and learning strategies.

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Planning meaningful tasks & identifying critical content

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Planning meaningful tasks & identifying critical content

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Contains ready made lesson plans and content appropriate activities for all age groups and subjects.

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New to CPALMS?

CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida's official source for standards information and course descriptions.

Click here to watch an introduction video!

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CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida's official source for standards information and course descriptions. Click here to watch an introduction video!

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9 tips on how to effectively plan lessons.

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How to Plan Transformational Lessons

1. Know the Standards, Curriculum, Core Concepts, and Strategies: For decades, many educators let a textbook's table of contents determine the scope and sequence of a course. Today, transformational teachers know their anchor standards by heart and recognize the difference between teaching strategies and learning strategies.

Teaching strategies are approaches that teachers use to improve student learning. Example: whole-class discussion or presentation.

Learning strategies are initiated and controlled by students to solve problems and increase their understanding. Example: using freewriting, brainstorming, and outlining to organize ideas.

Balancing teaching strategies with learning strategies keeps instructors and students actively engaged and focused on the same purpose.

2. Shift From Solo to Collaborative Lesson Design: As teachers gain fluency in using Padlet, Google Hangouts, Evernote, Skype, Dropbox, Hackpad, Google Drive, and Chatzy, collaborative planning is becoming second nature.

Additionally, more sharing of relevant curriculum is occurring via terrific open education resources (OER) like EngageNY, OER Commons, CK-12, and even iTunesU.

3. Create the Assessment Before Developing Content: Due in part to the influence of Understanding by Design (UbD) by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, transformational instructors no longer "teach then test." Instead, they " design the test, then teach." By building formative assessment and performance task checkpoints into their plans, instructors know when and why students don't understand a skill or concept.

4. Write Objectives for Students (Not an Administrator) to Read: A while back, teachers submitted lesson plans for their principals to check. In many cases, the administrator remained the primary audience for written objectives. Today, objectives are posted and made understandable to students. To ensure clarity, transformational teachers follow the Goldilocks rule. Objectives can't be too general ("students will learn about the Civil War") or too narrow, because narrow objectives "put you in danger of listing activities or assignments," writes Robyn R. Jackson in Never Work Harder Than Your Students & Other Principles of Great Teaching.

Here's another objective hack: To add relevance to the curriculum, simply add the stem "so that _____" at the end of each posted objective as a way of describing how the skill and content will benefit students. Example: "Students will be able to evaluate the credibility of sources so that they can protect our democracy from the influence of those spreading misinformation."

5. Create Presentations That Do More Showing and Less Telling: On the rare occasion that transformational teachers lecture, they are sure to use visuals created with tools like Canva and Pic Monkey. Using pictures can "banish boredom," asserts Dan Roam, author of Show and Tell. To keep pace with the 30 percent of students who access online videos for homework assistance, teachers' materials have become more interactive and optimized for mobile device consumption.

6. Don't Forget the Introverts: "Introverts like to work autonomously," says Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, "but the trend in education over the past 20 years has been focused on group learning." Cain notes that popular teaching strategies like cold calling don't allow introverts time to process what they want to say. Adding a think-pair-share activity or increasing wait time to seven seconds after asking a question plays to the strengths of introverts.

7. Provide More Opportunities for Students to Choose How They Accomplish Tasks: danah boyd's research determined that teenagers' lives are over-programmed: "Contemporary teens often have little freedom to connect with others on their own terms." A boost to student motivation can occur, says Kevin Perks in Crafting Effective Choices to Motivate Students, if we let learners determine-when possible-whom they work with, content, due dates, where to work, and how they will complete tasks.

8. Plan Ahead: Transformational teachers plan at least a month ahead, building in flex time to absorb inevitable weather- or activity-related interruptions in the school schedule. Through careful design, each time a learner encounters skills and concepts, they are more challenging. The spiral curriculum approach increases understanding and retention.

9. Integrate Productive Struggle Into the Curriculum: Lubricating the learning process with frictionless turn-in-the-worksheet compliance denies students opportunities for productive struggle-a condition important for learning and retention, according to an article by Richard Schmidt and Robert Bjork in Psychological Science. When students struggle, relax. Don't lower the expectations of your next lesson plan. Instead, scaffold instruction and check to see that you're challenging students appropriately with Hess's Cognitive Rigor Matrix.

Quality curriculum planning-publicly unacknowledged, unglamorous, and taxing-is ultimately the golden road to areté (Homer's word for "exemplary effectiveness"). Undoubtedly the tenets of effective planning will soon change, because transformational teachers never stop learning.

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9 Ways to Plan Transformational Lessons: Planning the Best Curriculum Unit Ever

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1. Know the Standards, Curriculum, Core Concepts, and Strategies: For decades, many educators let a textbook's table of contents determine the scope and sequence of a course. Today, transformational teachers know their anchor standards by heart and recognize the difference between teaching strategies and learning strategies.

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This is a look at the psychology behind the establishing of classroom routines.  It is a study by the American Psychological Association that claims that when followed there will be a success rate of 80%-85%.  Also there is a link on how to establish routines using a Number System!
http://www.dailyteachingtools.com/classroom-routines.html

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Using Kahoot you can create or use an pre-made quiz or exit slip in a fun and inviting way. There is also a feature where you can group your students so that they can compete against other students to get the top scores. You must group them yourself; Kahoot does not group them for you. :) https://kahoot.com/

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This resource gives you an introduction to what task-based learning is and steps to take to make it successful. It also gives examples you could use in your classroom!

http://www.fluentu.com/educator/blog/task-based-language-teaching-activities/

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Kagan's Essential Five for grouping students for cooperative learning
https://www.kaganonline.com/free_articles/research_and_rationale/330/The-Essential-5-A-Starting-Point-for-Kagan-Cooperative-Learning

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Classcraft: A fun way to group students and entice them to work together towards common goals.

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HMH Classcraft pairs ELA and math content with research-based lesson plans resulting in reduced educator planning time and increased student engagement.

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This is a blog containing many different unique and cute ideas for quickly grouping students.  It also includes ways to let your kids know what groups they are assigned to. https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/genia-connell/15-quick-and-creative-ways-group-and-partner-students/

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Never forget that every child needs to be built up. Having a discouraged child with their head hung will never allow them to live up their dreams in the sky.

https://youtu.be/SFnMTHhKdkwhttps://youtu.be/SFnMTHhKdkw

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This is a resource from FSU that has various center activities for different grade levels and ELA subjects (fluency, phonics, comprehension...)
http://www.fcrr.org/resources/resources_sca_4-5.html

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Resource to view how standards will be tested. Www.CPALMS.org/standards/assessments.aspx