ThinkUp! ELA

About the Teacher Edition

• Assures that 100% of the CCSS for ELA are addressed with evidence-based strategies to help teachers scaffold high-quality instruction.
• Offers units that are organized by focus CCSS with explanations of the standards to support planning and instruction and that support any ELA scope and sequence.
• Includes activities that stimulate critical thinking as evidenced by coding to Depth of Knowledge and Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• Provides online access to content that allows teachers to plan from anywhere and use interactive whiteboards to teach content.

About the Student Edition

• Offers literary and informational texts that introduce cross-curricular connections in social studies and science.
• Includes assessment components:
  • selected response items that assess student comprehension and analysis of the unit text
  • selected-response items that assess revising and editing standards
  • constructed-response items that assess student skillful thinking
• Provides writing practice with Journal prompts related to the unit text and recursive practice of language and reading standards in Motivation Station.