Additional Resources for Literacy

The links below are additional curriculum resources created to support teachers and students with literacy. 

Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots By Grade Level

These lists are not all-inclusive, but most common.  They are a minimum students at each grade level should read and understand how to use and apply by the current school year end.  Others may be added based on your classroom of students.

Teacher Created Resources

The above @DMPS folders contain support materials that have been created by teachers across the district, organized into folders by units.   Please continue to share any great resources you are using with your students by contacting a member of the Office of Academics team. Using these resources is **optional** and should not be considered a district requirement.  

Resources for Supplemental Text

The above webpage is a support for teachers looking for additional text resources to support literacy instruction.

Close Reading Modules

The PowerPoint-based modules below are intended to support school teams in their close reading understanding and instruction.  Modules can be completed in whole school PD, grade level PLCs, or on an individual basis.  ​

Literacy KITE Modules

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The Early Literacy Modules in KITE support professional development around the DMPS Components of Reading Development:
​Click here to go to KITE and learn! 

The KITE Project is working with Heartland AEA to ensure that your professional learning turns into License Renewal credit opportunities for qualifying series or courses.  
Click here to learn more about this credit opportunity!
 

Interdisciplinary Units

Our 4 year 2 Schools for Rigor are piloting the interdisciplinary/integrated units linked above to integrate content (science/social studies) into literacy instruction to make learning more relevant and meaningful.  

All units are organized around a guiding question to help tie things together - these are suggestions and can be modified by teacher teams. The anchor text is on grade level (usually a text from a district resource) and the text sets include varying levels designed to stair step students to the on level text. All essential standards are in bold.  This may help you determine priorities for tracking/monitoring.

*See more about integration in our "Shifting to Integrated Units" KITE Module!