Resources, Forms, and Applications
- Curriculum Documents for the Intermediate Grades
- Kentucky's Learning Goals and Academic Expectations
- The centerpiece of Kentucky's education reform effort is its vision of what students should know and be able to do as a result of their school experience. Every aspect of the reform movement is designed to promote student attainment of these goals and to measure our progress in helping them to do ...
- Program of Studies
- The Program of Studies for Kentucky Schools Grades Primary-12 helps ensure that all students across the commonwealth are provided with common content and have opportunities to learn at a high level.
- Connecting Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
- As districts address effective instructional planning for all students, resources will be added that can facilitate discussion and effective planning. Users may also want to check out How to Design a Standards-Based Unit of Study and the Literacy website for additional supporting resources. Both ...
- Released Test Items
- Items from prior administrations of the Kentucky Core Content Tests (KCCT) are available in each content area and grade assessed. These items reflect current assessment items and can be used to provide students practice with the format and type of items found in the KCCT. The items are released ...
- Student Performance Standards
- In June, 2001, the Kentucky Board of Education accepted new performance standards that resulted from a comprehensive process involving more than 1,600 Kentucky teachers, various advisory groups, and which provided for public input. These new standards set the stage for the work that lies ahead of ...
- Textbooks & Instructional Resources
- Includes print and electronic materials (including textbooks). Information on the current adoption cycle as well as information on the most recent adoption cycles can be found on this site. Update on Textbook Purchasing (as of 8-19-04)Textbook funds will be allocated for 2004-05 school year. ...
- Transformations Vol. I - Kentucky's Curriculum Framework (Browser Format)
- Introduction "Please, sir, draw me a sheep." With these simple words the Little Prince initiates his relationship with the aviator in St. Exupéry's The Little Prince. The Little Prince's incessant demand of the pilot to draw a sheep is finally met with some feeble attempts. One sheep is too old, ...
- Pathway to Achievement: Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- UDL is an educational approach to curriculum and instruction using technology to enable students with diverse learning needs to be successful in the classroom (www.cast.org). Delivering curriculum and implementing instruction through the lens of Universal Design means considering the needs of a ...
- Teaching Tools
- Welcome to Teaching Tools! We've designed Teaching Tools to provide teachers, schools and districts with a Web-based community of learning. This is where you can share standards-based resources as you strive to move your students to proficiency and beyond.
- Arts & Humanities - Intermediate Grades
- Intermediate level arts and humanities incorporates the four arts disciplines (dance, drama, music, visual art, historical and cultural perspective) in both a discipline based and an integrated program which focuses on different grade level standards each year.
- English/Language Arts - Reading
- Reading is the complex, recursive process through which we make meaning from texts, using semantics; syntax; visual, aural, and tactile cues; context; and prior knowledge. --from Standards for the English Language Arts: A Project of the International Reading Association (IRA) and the National ...
- English/Language Arts - Writingbr}
- Writing instruction prepares students to communicate for a variety of purposes and audiences in a variety of real-world forms. Kentucky Writing Resources - Download Page Writing documents and helps in three formats, Word, rtf, and Adobe pdf. Kentucky Writing Resources Writing Development Teacher ...
- Gifted & Talented
- Kentucky schools provide educational services to meet the needs of students who are gifted and talented. In Kentucky, gifted and talented students are identified as possessing demonstrated or potential ability to perform at exceptionally high levels in one or more of five areas: intellectual ...
- Language Learningbr}
- Language Learning implies second language acquisition and refers to: 1) the study of English as a Second Language (ESL) for students whose native language is not English; and 2) the study of languages other than English (e.g., ASL, Chinese, French, German, Latin, Japanese, Russian and Spanish) ...
- Mathematics - Elementary
- This page contains information about the Program of Studies for the Primary and Intermediate levels, as well as the Core Content for Assessment at the 5th grade level. Additional resources available include standards-based units and lessons, professional development opportunities and professional ...
- Science - Elementary
- This page contains information about the Program of Studies for the Primary and Intermediate levels, as well as the Core Content for Assessment at the 4th grade level. Additional resources available include standards-based units and lessons, professional development opportunities and professional ...
- Social Studies - Intermediate Grades
- Intermediate level social studies utilizes the five strands of social studies (historical perspective, geography, economics, government and civics, and culture and society) in an integrated program which focuses on a different grade-level context each year. Teaching ToolsWelcome to Teaching Tools! ...
Nations Resources
- Changes in School
- Fourth grade marks the beginning of the intermediate years, when the pace of learning picks up. Children are now being groomed for the greater demands of middle school and junior high, so many (though not all) schools switch to a more traditional approach.
- Homework Help
- Expect 45 to 60 minutes of homework a night. Your job now: fade into the background. Learning to take responsibility for getting homework done is an important milestone in your child's life.