The Des Moines Public Schools provides comprehensive literacy instruction to all students, K-12. To better serve our stakeholders, the literacy curriculum team is divided into two components: an Elementary component governing K-5 and a Secondary component which encompasses 6-12. This page is dedicated to the curricular offerings and assessment initiatives relevant to secondary literacy.
Course information is divided into four categories in the menu bar, above. Middle school courses are all collected in the Middle School courses menu, while high school courses appear in one of three places: the traditional progression for students (English I-IV) is located under the High School Core Courses menu, while other courses that live in the ELA world are presented under the HS Electives menu. Not all elective courses confer English credit.
Course information is divided into four categories in the menu bar, above. Middle school courses are all collected in the Middle School courses menu, while high school courses appear in one of three places: the traditional progression for students (English I-IV) is located under the High School Core Courses menu, while other courses that live in the ELA world are presented under the HS Electives menu. Not all elective courses confer English credit.
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Links to 2019-2020 Newsletters
Back to School Bonus Curriculum Chronicle (8/20) August 2019 Curriculum Chronicle Links to 2018-2019 Newsletters March 2019 Curriculum Chronicle January 2019 Curriculum Chronicle December 2018 Curriculum Chronicle November 2018 Curriculum Chronicle October 2018 Curriculum Chronicle September 2018 Curriculum Chronicle August 2018 Curriculum Chronicle Bonus Back to School 2018 Curriculum Chronicle |
Strategy Snapshots 2019-2020
Quarterly blog posts on topics that support quality ELA instruction Lexile... And Beyond Examining text complexity through multiple lenses Strategy Snapshots 2018-2019 Quarterly blog posts on topics that support quality ELA instruction Get 'em Talking Strategies to encourage student collaboration Aim for the Target Authentic Assessment and Student Products Beyond the Page Media Literacy and using non-traditional texts for analysis To Read or not to Read... out loud Fostering independent readers and student ownership of text |
