In grade 10, students collaborate with classmates on projects, using their advanced listening and speaking skills. They can summarize and paraphrase from complex texts and navigate all five stages of the writing process to produce narrative, informative, argumentative, and blended essays. Students continue to read a wide variety of genres and authors, deepening their abilities to comprehend and analyze complex texts and evaluate how historical, cultural, and/or global perspectives affect meaning and author’s style. They evaluate advanced literary elements such as archetypes and narrator reliability and distinguish evidence in an argument as logical, empirical, or anecdotal. By grade 10, students have large vocabularies and expand them through reading, word study, and class discussion and employ them for precision and effect in their writing. They effectively and intentionally use active and passive voice in their writing, which demonstrates use of Standard American English. Students engage in research by formulating questions, evaluating resources, and integrating information into their own writing using a consistent citation style, producing advanced essays and projects. They can blend alphabetic, aural, visual, spatial, and/or gestural modes into engaging content that accomplishes a purpose. Grade 10 students have the stamina to read and write independently for extended periods of time.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a research-based framework for improving student learning experiences and outcomes through careful instructional planning focused on the varied needs of all students, including students with visible and non-visible disabilities, advanced and gifted learners, and English learners.

Some general ideas for implementing the UDL lens in an ELA lesson, PK-12, are provided in this chart.

These exemplar lesson plans showcase best practices for English language arts. These lessons are aligned to the Oklahoma Academic Standards and bundle together multiple objectives to showcase the recursive nature of ELA. Each lesson plan includes helpful explanations about the instructional plan and steps. Teachers can review these sample lessons on their own, with a colleague, and/or with their professional learning community, to reflect on the highlighted ELA practices and how they mesh with their own current classroom practices.

Lesson plans are available for each grade featuring texts from the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, & poetry.

Moreover, an exemplar lesson plan sequence regarding Standard 6 research is available for each grade band.

This suite of writing resources includes:

• student-friendly checklists for the narrative, informative, argumentative, and research modes
• editing checklists for the beginning and middle of the school year
• examples of teacher feedback on student writing
• a peer feedback lesson plan with a slideshow and handout

• Engagement Strategies
• 10th Grade ELA Standards (pages 104-111)