To get started, we would like to share with you some of TA's tools and resources.

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TA equips teachers with practical student handouts, teaching resources, and assessment tools that they can use to implement effective skill-based instruction.

TA offers…

• a digital lesson planner to help develop skill-based lessons that target college and career readiness skills.
• a library of skills, student handouts, and teaching tools to help teach high-level reading, writing, and speaking skills.
• powerful skill instruction methodology to help implement literacy in the classroom.
• a teacher website for all TA members that gives all of your students access to the tools and resources they are learning in class.

It's time to learn about our Skill Library. Click the "Next" button or arrow forward to start the module.

The following slides will show you how to locate reading, writing, and speaking skills in our Skill Library. You will also learn how to use tools and resources in the Skill Library to teach high-level literacy skills.

Next, you will learn about your new lesson planning tool. To begin the Lesson Planner module, click the "Next" button or arrow forward.

When you are ready to move on to the next step, click "Save and Next" at the bottom of the page. At any time in the lesson, you can click "Save and Exit" and you will be taken to the Lesson Summary page.

Enter in your source information and use the Text Complexity Meter to get a general sense of how challenging your text is for your kids.

Natalie, our online coach, will help you complete each section in the planner. She provides suggestions and important information every step of the way.

Simply click a template on the right and make changes.

She takes your information and recommends standards to teach.

You can add quickwrite activities, videos, vocabulary, and anticipation guides during this step.

Your students can access your lessons even if you do not share them with the rest of the community.

Share one lesson and watch the resource grow.

You can click "All" to see all the lessons or click on a subject to see lessons for specific content areas.

You can also copy any public lesson and add it to your personal library of lessons.

You can make a copy of a lesson you created or make a copy of a public lesson from our Lesson Plans Library.

At anytime, you can make your lessons public for the whole LiteracyTA community. Think about how powerful this resource can be if everyone in the community just shared one lesson. Let's get planning, together.

All of our language resources, student activities, and skill rubrics will be available in the Zoom Presentation.

The Zoom Presentation also provides additional teaching tools like a digital timer to help pace student activities.

It's time to learn about how we support skill-based instruction. You know the drill, click the "Next" button or arrow forward to get started.

The following slides will show you how to navigate our Skill Instruction section. Our Skill Instruction pages offer classroom tested teaching practices and frameworks for effective literacy instruction.

Ready for Common Core? This next module will highlight your new Common Core tools. Click the "Next" button or arrow forward to learn more.

The following slides will explore our Common Core section. You will learn how we have aligned our literacy skills to Common Core College and Career Readiness Standards and how we have built Common Core tools to support the implementation of the new national standards.

The maroon cubes indicate what Common Core Standards can be taught with this skill.

If you click on the Zoom icon, the skill page will transform into a Student Presentation.

Select a Common Core tool and get started.

The Common Core suggests we give students access to increasingly complex texts. You can use this meter to make sure your texts are delivering the level of rigor you want them to experience.

This last module will focus on additional features that you get with TA. Click "Next" or arrow forward to get started.

The following slides will highlight some of our support features.

We are all working together to improve every day.

LiteracyTA's eCoach motivates you and keeps you going with innovative literacy skills, teaching methods and instructional tips. Stay connected to the team. Get inspired. Earn more than 20 hours of professional development over the year. Learn, grow, and achieve with eCoach.

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TA will save you over 25% on all products found in Shop LiteracyTA. The literacy shop has bookmarks for students that offer daily reading and writing reminders. Also educators can order their own copy of our Literacy Skills Activity Books.

TA is ready to work at home or on the go. The TA looks great on a phone, on an iPad, or a tablet. Our colorful images and simple design looks great on all mobile devices. Get connected. You're going to like what you see.

Practice skills every day in every class and your students will show significant improvement in how they read, write, think, and speak.

Thank you for participating in our TA Orientation.