Language Arts Township

Language Arts Standards

Didax IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts
Didax is a catalog - IRA is the International Reading Association - NCTE is the National Council of teachers of English
http://www.didaxinc.com/standards/langstandards.html

National curriculum standards by the National Council of Teachers of English
http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/standardslib/langarts.html

A Selection of Eric Items on Standards for Language Arts
http://ericir.syr.edu/
- Standards in the English Language Arts: Meeting the Challenge
  A discussion of literacy and society. The role that new approaches to literacy play in making school subjects relevant to today's world is also covered and is related to the current move toward standards.
- Great Expectations? Defining and Assessing Rigor in State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts
  This report from Council for Basic Education (CBE) evaluates the rigor of 43 states' standards in math and language arts , finding a range from very rigorous to low. Appendices contain advisory panels, grades for rigor of state standards, frameworks for mathematics and language arts, and scoring rubrics.
- Exploring Language Arts Standards within a Cycle of Learning
  National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) looks at assumptions underlying the International Reading Association /NCTE language arts standards and relates them to a "cycle of learning."
- Teachers' Stance towards Standards, Frameworks, and Assessments for English Language Arts and Social Studies: The Case of NYS
  A study of 21 teachers, examining issues brought up by the standards and assessment movement such as gaps between policy and implementations, problems with conflicting expectations, and difficulties in transforming standards into classroom practice.