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Reading Literature

DLM has created many helpful resources to assist with teaching Reading Essential Elements standards in the classroom. Take advantage of the many different strategies and materials that they provide to guide differentiated instruction. Resources are linked to standards with corresponding text resources. Download and print the resources for reference. 

"One of the challenges in providing students with the most significant disabilities with access to the general curriculum is finding materials that link directly to the grade level content, but are written at a level that is accessible.  As part of the DLM project we have been building a library of companion texts that go with the exemplar texts called out in the Appendix of the College and Career Readiness Standards. These books are accessible, open-source texts that you and your students can read online, on a reader that uses epub files, or offline as Powerpoint files or printed versions of the books. The books come from the collection of books at Tar Heel Reader.  Many of the books were written by teachers across the U.S., Canada, and other English speaking countries."

Tar Heel Reader (
http://tarheelreader.org).
Dynamic Learning Maps Professional Development

Teaching Comprehension
  • Teaching Text Comprehension: Anchor-Read-Apply
  • Generating Purposes for Reading
  • DR-TA and Other Text Comprehension Approaches
Anchor-Read-Apply Lesson Supports Linked to DLM Essential Elements
  • 6th Grade DLM Reading Purposes Anchor Read Apply
  • 7th Grade DLM Reading Purposes Anchor Read Apply
  • 8th Grade DLM Reading Purposes Anchor Read Apply
Modified 6th Grade Text
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • Holes
  • Little Women
Dynamic Learning Maps® English Language Arts Familiar Text Information – Grade 6

"This document includes information about the familiar texts used in single-Essential Element testlets in grade 6 Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) alternate assessments. In the Dynamic Learning Maps assessment, students with the most significant cognitive disabilities are given the opportunity to become familiar with the books they will encounter in the assessment. These familiar texts are used in all Initial Precursor level testlets and in some other linkage levels for some Essential Elements. Unfamiliar texts are used in some linkage levels for some Essential Elements where access to the text prior to administration is not necessary for the student to demonstrate their understanding. Descriptions of the familiar texts and their features are provided for each Essential Element and linkage level. Educators are encouraged to use this information as a resource for planning instruction. Familiar text information is grouped by Essential Element. Essential Elements for Reading Literature (RL) use stories. Essential Elements for Reading Informational Text (RI) use informational texts. Essential Elements for Language (L) use both stories and informational texts. Texts with an asterisk (*) contain material that some students may find sensitive. Links to each familiar text are included in this document. Educators are free to use familiar texts in instruction."

https://dynamiclearningmaps.org/sites/default/files/documents/Familiar_Texts/IE_Familiar_Text_Grade_6.pdf
Modified 7th Grade Text
  • Black Ships Before Troy:  The Story of The Illiad
    • ​Reading Comprehension I created - The Golden Apple
    • Reading Comprehension I created - Ancient Greece
    • Reading Comprehension I created - The Olympic Tradition
    • Reading Comprehension I created - What Does a King Do?
    • Presentation for the above texts
  • Hatchet
  • The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 

"This document includes information about the familiar texts used in single-Essential Element testlets in grade 7 Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM®) alternate assessments. In the Dynamic Learning Maps assessment, students with the most significant cognitive disabilities are given the opportunity to become familiar with the books they will encounter in the assessment. These familiar texts are used in all Initial Precursor level testlets and in some other linkage levels for some Essential Elements. Unfamiliar texts are used in some linkage levels for some Essential Elements where access to the text prior to administration is not necessary for the student to demonstrate their understanding. Descriptions of the familiar texts and their features are provided for each Essential Element and linkage level. Educators are encouraged to use this information as a resource for planning instruction. Familiar text information is grouped by Essential Element. Essential Elements for Reading Literature (RL) use stories. Essential Elements for Reading Informational Text (RI) use informational texts. Essential Elements for Language (L) use both stories and informational texts. Texts with an asterisk (*) contain material that some students may find sensitive. Links to each familiar text are included in this document. Educators are free to use familiar texts in instruction.''
​
https://dynamiclearningmaps.org/sites/default/files/documents/Familiar_Texts/IE_Familiar_Text_Grade_7.pdf
Modified 8th Grade Text
  • Hoot
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Touching Spirit Bear 

"This document includes information about the familiar texts used in single-Essential Element testlets in grade 8 Dynamic Learning Maps® (DLM® ) alternate assessments. In the Dynamic Learning Maps assessment, students with the most significant cognitive disabilities are given the opportunity to become familiar with the books they will encounter in the assessment. These familiar texts are used in all Initial Precursor level testlets and in some other linkage levels for some Essential Elements. Unfamiliar texts are used in some linkage levels for some Essential Elements where access to the text prior to administration is not necessary for the student to demonstrate their understanding. Descriptions of the familiar texts and their features are provided for each Essential Element and linkage level. Educators are encouraged to use this information as a resource for planning instruction. Familiar text information is grouped by Essential Element. Essential Elements for Reading Literature (RL) use stories. Essential Elements for Reading Informational Text (RI) use informational texts. Essential Elements for Language (L) use both stories and informational texts. Texts with an asterisk (*) contain material that some students may find sensitive. Links to each familiar text are included in this document. Educators are free to use familiar texts in instruction."
​
https://dynamiclearningmaps.org/sites/default/files/documents/Familiar_Texts/IE_Familiar_Text_Grade_8.pdf
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  • #1 Reading/LA
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    • #1 Reading Class >
      • Reading Informational
      • Reading Literature
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    • #2 Language Arts >
      • Language Arts
      • Writing
      • Spelling
      • 4th Grade Great Depression Unit
  • #2 Math
    • Math Pacing Guide
    • CCSS Middle School Standards
    • #1 Ratio & Proportions >
      • 1.a Ratios
    • #2 The Number Systems Standards >
      • #2.a Fraction Unit
      • #2.b Multiplication
      • #2.c Division
      • #2.d Decimals
      • #2.e Positive/Negative Numbers
    • #3 Expressions & Equations >
      • #3.a Algebraic Expressions
      • #3.b Equations
      • #3.c Data
    • #4 Geometry >
      • Area
      • Volume
    • #5 Statistics & Probability
    • #6 Functions
    • Calendar Skills
  • #3 Science
    • #1 Structure and Properties of Matter
    • #2 Forces and Motion
    • #3 Conservation of Energy and Energy Transfer
    • #4 Wave Properties
    • #5 Structure and Function
    • #6 Growth and Development of Organisms
    • #7 Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
    • #8 Variation of Traits
    • #9 Earth and the Solar System
    • #10 Earth's Materials and Systems
    • #11 Earth and Human Activity
    • Camouflage Unit
  • #4 Social Studies
    • #1 Directions
    • #2 Personal Information
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    • #4 System Warnings >
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    • Inquiry Practices and Process
    • Behavioral Science
    • Economics
    • Geography
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  • College & Career Ready
  • Resources
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