Core ELA
There are 4 at each grade level.
What is the number of units in StudySync Core ELA?
These are unitized and contain 180 days of College and Career based lesson plans, pacing guides, and fully developed lesson plans for differentiation.
What is the StudySync teacher edition?
The StudySync library is ever-growing, with new texts each month, new Blasts every school day, skills, and media over the life of your adoption.
What is the definition of a Living Curriculum?
Argumentative, Informational, Narrative, and Literary Analysis.
What types of writing are found in the StudySync Extended Writing Project?
Auto graded comprehension quizes, Think questions, Your Turn, analytic writing and more.
What are the formative assessments in StudySync?
Most units provide a choice of two.
What are unit Novel Studies.
45 days each, for a total of 180 days of College and Career Standards based instruction.
What is the duration of the StudySync Core ELA units?
Available with all four units in one book, or individually unitized, these are fully consumable and contain everything a student needs to complete a First Read, Close Read, and the Extended Writing Project.
What is the StudySync student Reading Writing Companion?
By author, title, key word or using a variety of tags, grade level, genre range, and special features.
How can the texts in StudySync be searched/filtered?
Teaches both essential skills and the writing process, and includes model essays. This is meant to be taught over the full 45 day unit.
What is the instruction in the Extended Writing Project.
End of Year Assessments can be used as both end of course and grade level pretests.
What are benchmark assessments in StudySync?
A teacher guide, student reading guide, comparative text reading and writing assignment per novel chapter, and if we have permission, the book is provided in an ePub or PDF form.
What is included in the Novel Study?
Overview, Instructional Path, Research, Novel Study, Extended Writing Project.
What is the organization of a StudySync Core unit?
Annually for the life of the adoption.
What is the frequency with which the student Reading Writing Companion will be replenished?
Daily quick read/write current events and contemporary issues activities with social media like features to engage today's learners.
What are Blasts?
This is a great formative assessment of the skills taught with a particular text.
What is the analytical writing opportunity in the Close Read lesson?
There is an assessment for each unit, in a standard or PARCC form. These assessments use quality literature as a fresh read to apply the skills and strategies students learned in the unit.
What are the Unit Assessments, available in both print and digital form?
There are 54 in the StudySync Library today, but this number is always growing.
What is the number of Novel Studies in the StudySync Library.
First Read, 1 or 2 Skills Lessons, and a Close Read.
What are the steps in Doug Fisher's research based Close Reading Routine found in each core text?
Designed specifically for the way you want to grow your library and the books you want to teach, with full instructional support in the StudySync Library.
What is the novel and full text option in StudySync?
You'll find American Lit, British Lit, African American Lit and so much more here.
What is the units tab in the StudySync Library?
Another new feature, added by teacher request, this allows students to use Google tools and StudySync tools in an easily integrated way.
What is the new Google Docs integration feature.
Available daily, the StudySync home page has a link to the menu for topics over the next several weeks.
What are daily live StudySync Webinars?
There are two new scaffold texts available in 3 Lexile Levels as well as 3 Core texts with interactive language and vocabulary lessons.
What are the texts in the EL unit.
The text is chunked for complexity, and the guiding questions are already done for you.
What is the advantage of the Close Read in StudySync?
These are found in the back of the print teacher edition.
What is the location of the print teacher support for the Full Text Study and Extended Writing Project?
Hundreds of grammar, academic vocabulary, spelling, writing and reading activities, including the very popular Spotlight, that takes students back to the foundational level.
What is the Skills tab in the StudySync Library?
Found in the EL unit, this can be the perfect verbal reversal for writing for any student that needs this as a scaffold.
What is the Extended Oral Project.
Found in the teacher profile, this is your portal for a world of on demand (PD in your PJs) professional Development.
What is the Help Center?
Interactive drop and drag vocabulary and language activities provide scaffolds for these students.
Who are ELs and any student who might need language and vocabulary support?
Models of academic conversation around text found in 1/3 of StudySync core text lessons. They are designed to be on-ramps for encouraging effective student collaborative conversations.
What is SyncTV?
Allowing for maximum flexibility, these are not labeled with a grade level, and if a student should leave with one, or lose one, the rest of the year's instruction isn't jeopardized.
What is the unitized, individual Reading Writing Companion.
You can suggest one or add one of your own.
What is a text you don't see in StudySync?
This writing lesson always has a graphic organizer.
What is the Organize Your Writing lesson.
Available for both students and teachers, this is a step by step guide to assigning, taking, creating, and editing assessments.
What is the Online Assessment Center Help?
Designed to teach the listening and speaking skills, this is completely mapped out for 120-130 minutes of instruction over the course of the unit.
What is the Research Study?
These follow the gradual release of responsibility instruction model. Define, Model, Your Turn is I do, we do, you do. They include great media assets as well.
What are StudySync Skills Lessons.
Color coded for First Read, Skill, Blast, and Close Read, this is a great place to evaluate which of the short complex texts to teach.
What is the print teacher edition TOC.
You can use any texts, skills, and media to create your own using this new feature, added to StudySync because teachers asked for it.
What is the new Unit Creator feature?
All writing in StudySync is open for this and it helps build a community of writers in your classroom. It provides for ongoing feedback throughout the writing process. In StudySync we use this to teach giving and receiving feedback as a college and career skill.
What is anonymous peer review?
Once you have done this, you can edit, expand, or revise an assessment in any way you choose. You can even add questions using the built in tech enhancements in the OAC.
What is made a copy of the assessment.
It is always working in the background. It identifies concerns with any work that has been submitted to StudySync previously by ANY user and notifies the teacher.
What is the plagiarism checker?