A.P. Literature & Composition
Core Code Alignment
Language Arts
Language Arts Electives
06010000093: A.P. Literature & Composition
Language Arts Electives
06010000093: A.P. Literature & Composition
Recommendation
Recommended Primary
Evaluation
Recommended Primary
Educators Using These Materials
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Rubric : English Language Arts
Content
| Item | 3 - Extensive | 2 - Adequate | 1 - Inadequate | 0 - None | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alignment | The content of this resource aligns with appropriate grade level Core standards, is current, well-researched, and referenced from reliable sources. -meets all grade level standards within elementary/secondary -is explicit, systematic, and engaging -includes all 7 essential elements of literacy: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, oral language, and writing as appropriate to grade level -includes text that meets Lexile requirements for each grade band -includes text that is the appropriate percentage of literature and informational | The content of this resource aligns with most grade level core standards but will need supplementary materials to insure coverage of all the objectives for this course. | The content of this resource aligns with a few grade level core standards for a portion of the course. | The content of this resource does not align with standards and objectives for this course. | ||
| Recommended Primary - Instructional materials are aligned to the AP Standards for Literature and exceed grade-level expectations. | ||||||
| Scaffolding | Scaffolding supports for these materials are complex and challenging, engage learners from various skill levels and provide assistance for all students to enhance conceptual understanding; and offer opportunities for students to share evidence and research. | Scaffolding supports for these materials engage learners from various skill levels and provides assistance for students to enhance conceptual understanding. | Scaffolding supports for these materials engage learners from various skill levels. | Scaffolding supports for these materials do not engage learners from various skill levels or provide scaffolding to enhance conceptual understanding. | ||
| Scaffolding supports are provided with varying degrees of difficulty. Visual and audial aspects enhance student learning through videos, pictures, graphs, audio recordings, and various text structures. Units and lessons can be premade or custom built to fit teacher and learner needs. | ||||||
| Navigation | This resource contains directions that are clear and understandable and are easy to navigate through. | N/A | N/A | The instructions in this resource are unclear and navigation is difficult. | ||
| User and teacher guides are provided to guide learners seamlessly through the MindTap system. Steps are provided for first-time users to navigate through the materials. | ||||||
Accessibility
| Item | 3 - Extensive | 2 - Adequate | 1 - Inadequate | 0 - None | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bias Free | This material is free from bias and can be used by all students regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, or disability. This material is free from advertising, e-commerce or political interest, and is in compliance with the law and community standards. | N/A | This series or title has material that may be interpreted as bias or promoting a commercial or political agenda or may be considered to treat some groups unfairly. | This series or title has material that is clearly biased and favors a point of view that may be distracting to the educational experience of students. | ||
| The materials are bias free with a wide range of materials to select for breadth, depth, and complexity. Some materials will need to be selected based on community and environmental concerns. | ||||||
| Adaptability | Instructional materials in this resource are easily updated and adaptable for teacher and student use in individualized or small group instructional settings and are accessible for an appropriate time period to facilitate a proper learning environment for each student. | Instructional materials in this resource have some features which are adaptable and are available for an acceptable time period. | N/A | Instructional materials in this resource are not adaptable or easily incorporated into a variety of educational settings. | ||
| Materials are available for an acceptable time period, but due to the online nature and structure of the activities, materials are not easily adaptable for individualized settings (e.g., students with IEPs). Pacing and instruction could be individualized, however. | ||||||
| Technical Standards | Instructional materials in this resource are adaptable or easily incorporated into a variety of educational settings. | N/A | N/A | This curriculum is limited by specifications that may require additional materials or technical assistance, or additional hardware, software, or infrastructure. | ||
| This is an online text, meaning that materials are not adaptable or easily incorporated into a variety of educational settings. This curriculum would require hardware, software, infrastructure, and technical assistance. | ||||||
Pedagogy
| Item | 3 - Extensive | 2 - Adequate | 1 - Inadequate | 0 - None | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Characteristics | In physical terms, this resource is durable, interactive, and provides high quality audio-visual and tactile experiences for all users if appropriate. | In physical terms, this resource is somewhat fragile in construction and provides limited tactile experiences for students. | N/A | In physical terms, this resource is designed to be disposable and temporary. | ||
| This is an online text meaning that physicality is only limited to hardware. It is highly interactive. However, there were some YouTube links that did not work as those videos are no longer viewable. This is a big flaw. All videos should be embedded and not available through YouTube due to availability. Also, many YouTube videos go through district filters and may not be available dependent on each district's different filters. Additionally, the online text lacked images, paintings, etc. which greatly enhance the visual appeal of texts for students and add to the educational experience. | ||||||
| Instructional Support | This curriculum provides adequate instructional support that aligns with MTSS guidelines and clear requirements for the instructor. | N/A | N/A | This curriculum does not provide adequate support for the instructor. | ||
| Provides better than adequate instructional support; however, | ||||||
| Supplemental Resources | Provided materials reference numerous available supplemental resources including support for each learner in every level of learning. | Provided materials reference some available supplemental resources. | N/A | Provided materials do not refer to other supplemental resources. | ||
| There is evidence of numerous available supplemental resources that can be used on a student-by-student basis or for the whole group. The resources may not be appropriate to a broad range of student abilities. | ||||||
| Assessments | These instructional resources contain a variety of formative and summative assessments that are aligned with core objectives, provide appropriate intervention strategies, and lead to observable performance and real-world experience. | These instructional resources contain a limited number of assessments without intervention strategies. | N/A | These instructional resources do not provide assessment materials. | ||
| Perrine's Literature Mindtrap 2.0 provides three paths to assessment: varied writing prompts, multiple-choice pretests, and multiple-choice posttests (to include a test bank for the provided literary texts). There is a range of supplementary supports to help students perform these three assessments to include a variety of student writing samples. There are no performance tasks. The assessments align with core objectives of AP Standards. | ||||||
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