Each grade in Lenses on Literature includes hundreds of interactive activities for students and useful resources for teachers. The Course Navigator includes many different card types indicating different types of activities. Look for different card types to preview or assign these activities and resources.
These cards indicate tools that help you prepare, plan, and teach confidently.
Teacher Resource Cards: Digital Teacher Implementation Guide
Several types of cards provide convenient access to pages in the unit’s Digital Teacher Implementation Guide:
TIP: You can use the Table of Contents available in all of these resources to jump between sections of the Digital Teacher Implementation Guide! Click the Table of Contents icon at the top of the left bar to move around.
Teacher Resource Cards: Additional Resources
Additional teacher resources include:
…and more throughout the Teacher Resources section or at point of need inside units
Professional Learning
Professional Learning is embedded at the point of need throughout lessons to guide you through critical instructional moves, such as reviewing the Driving Prompt Task or using the unit rubric to score student work.
Student Activity Cards indicate interactive assignable activities for students. Preview them here, or assign them to classrooms or students.
Annotation
Annotation activities direct students to intentionally highlight and add notes to text selections. Highlights and notes are visible only to the student and the teacher during review
Concept Overview
Concept Overviews introduce or reinforce critical skills.
Discussion
Discussions offer opportunities for partner, small-group, or whole-class conversations. Discussion activities include starter prompts and often have space to capture student thoughts and reflections from the conversation.
Feedback
Feedback activities provide opportunities for students to share work and get feedback from their peers.
Graphic Organizer
These activities include table- or image-based tools that help students organize their thoughts as they respond to a prompt. Students click each table or image cell to input text.
Students receiving Levels of Support content may encounter:
Language Practice
In these activities, students practice important grammar, usage, and mechanics skills that are embedded into lesson sequences.
Reflection
Reflection activities are writing opportunities for students to reflect on an idea or prior work. These activities are also excellent opportunities for students to discuss or share with classmates.
Revision
Revision activities are structured opportunities for students to review and improve work, usually as they are writing the final writing product.
Text Selection
Text Selection cards provide students access to core text or media selections used throughout the course. Use these to preview or assign the reading as a whole outside of an activity. Text selections are automatically available inside activities, without the need to assign them.
Written Response
These are activities in which the critical element of students’ work is a written response.
In addition to the wealth of formative and summative assessments embedded within student activities, you can find assignable Skills Check assessments in each unit.
Skills Checks
These assessments are fully computer auto-scored, typically contain 15–20 questions using cold read texts, and cover key skills from the unit.
This information is part of Start Your Lenses on Literature™ Journey, a comprehensive teacher resource that can be found in the Navigation Guide section of Teacher Resources in the Clear Learning Center.
