Elevate & Evaluate Professional Resource

Elevate & Evaluate is packed with professional development materials for elevating teacher knowledge, a full suite of easy-to-use assessments for evaluating student knowledge, and clear evidence of efficacy for Joy Allcock’s speech-to-sounds-to-print approach for teaching the code and structure of written English.

The resources in the Elevating Teacher Knowledge section provide helpful background information and concrete support for teaching the code and structure of written English. Teachers can use the professional development resources in this section to work alone or collaboratively with their peers. Topics include:
• Effective literacy instruction
• The systems of English
• What teachers needs to teach
• Sounds and spellings
• Syllable structures
• Spelling rules and conventions
• Scope and sequence
• Literacy development
• Teaching decoding
• Literacy delays and difficulties

The Elevating Student Knowledge section includes assessment essentials and timelines, yearly achievement expectations, and a full suite of assessment instruments. These assessments can be used to drive instruction, track progress, and measure the impact of instruction on student achievement. The 11 assessments include:
• Foundations for literacy
• Phonological and phonemic awareness
• Grapheme knowledge
• Letter formation
• Sound-to-letter knowledge
• Pseudoword spelling
• Blends
• Short and long vowel discrimination
• Spelling knowledge
• Spelling analysis
• Decoding analysis