Measuring Up to Georgia's K–12 Standards for ELA

Grades 3–8

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Measuring Up to Georgia's K–12 Standards for ELA prepares students for the rigors of the assessment with lessons designed to improve academic growth and assessment results, and can be used to supplement your curriculum, support intervention, before- or after-school programs, summer school, progress monitoring, and benchmarking.

What's new?

Callouts in the Student Edition meet the new Georgia K–12 Standards for ELA.
A Grammar Conventions handbook in the Appendix.
- Grammar Conventions and Handwriting handbook (grades 3–5)
- Grammar Conventions handbook (grades 6–8)

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Each lesson connects new learning to prior knowledge through real-world examples and the use of key vocabulary. Key terms are listed along with examples demonstrating their usage within the lesson.

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Tips, hints, and checkpoints are provided to build understanding and support mastery. How Am I Doing? prompts serve as checkpoints and writing opportunities to reinforce understanding of key skills and standards.

Measuring Up Student Edition Guided Instruction pages

Items are designed to reflect the structure of high-stakes assessments, with starred questions identifying those that target critical-thinking skills.

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Questions provide an opportunity for students to verify their understanding of the skills and standards before progressing to the next lesson. A Practice Test at the end of each unit offers additional practice opportunities.

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Measuring Up to Georgia's K–12 Standards for ELA student edition pages

Georgia’s K-12 Standards-driven achievement

Introduce concepts by connecting what students will learn to what they may already know.
Use real-world examples.
Provide key academic vocabulary in context.
Scaffold learning with guided instruction, questions, hints, and checklists at point of learning.
Apply learning independently with questions that emulate the Georgia Milestone Assessments.
Measure mastery with Exit Tickets.
Motivate students to master the Georgia's K-12 Standards with checkpoints, hints, Turn and Talk, Think About It and other prompts.

Standards-based literacy instruction features:

Foundational and word knowledge skills to academic vocabulary building.
Language conventions and writing composition.
Informational text and literature of varying text types, genres, and complexity.
Integration of knowledge and ideas.
Building knowledge drawing upon previously read or known information.

The robust teacher editions include:

Instruction to incorporate the real-world lesson goal.
Differentiation for struggling, advanced, and English Language Learners.
Lessons feature tips and activities for diverse learners, including striving, advanced, and ELLs.
Scoring rubrics, checklists, and graphic organizers.
Guidance for interpreting and using data.
Standards information and support.