12 Days of CERCA 

Celebrate the season with 59 free literacy resources! ☃️ 

This holiday season, the ThinkCERCA team is wrapping up our favorite literacy resources to share with educators. We know how important literacy instruction is, and we hope these 59 resources will empower your team and engage your students throughout the new year.

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1 CERCA Poster

  • Printable poster on how to make an evidence-based argument

2 Grading Guides

  • Scoring student writing
  • Providing feedback on student writing

3 Note-Taking Graphic Organizers

  • KWL
  • KWLQ
  • Cornell Notes

4 CERCA Framework Icebreakers

  • CERCA Humans
  • Captain CERCA
  • CERCA Circle
  • CERCA Sort

5 Test Prep Strategies

  • Multiple Choice Revision
  • Timed Practice
  • Error Analysis
  • Annotation
  • Prediction

6 Observation Guides

  • Feedback
  • Student Engagement
  • Differentiation
  • Reading and Writing
  • CERCA Framework
  • Speaking and Listening

7 Activities to Facilitate Discussion and Debate

  • Take a Stand
  • Turn and Face
  • Socratic Discussion
  • Collaborative Grouping
  • The Debate Game
  • Jigsaw
  • Vote with Your Feet

8 Teacher Literacy Resources

  • SOAPSTone
  • Interactive Word Wall
  • List, Group, Label
  • Frayer Model
  • Vocabulary Squares
  • Silent Conversation
  • Semantic Mapping
  • Reason vs. Reasoning

9 Questions to Ask Before Planning a Blended Literacy Initiative

  • Flowchart for administrators

10 Student Engagement Strategies

  • Gallery Walk
  • Think-Pair-Share
  • Concept Map
  • Last Word
  • Fish Bowl
  • World Café
  • Act It Out
  • Turn and Face
  • Debate Game
  • Collaborating to Find Evidence

11 Argumentative Writing Rubrics

  • CCSS.W.3.1
  • CCSS.W.4.1
  • CCSS.W.5.1
  • CCSS.W.6.1
  • CCSS.W.7.1
  • CCSS.W.8.1
  • CCSS.W.9-10.1
  • CCSS.W.11-12.1
  • CCSS.WHST.6-8.1
  • CCSS.WHST.9-10.1
  • CCSS.WHST.11-12.1

12 Questions to Assess Your Blended Literacy Score

  • Interactive scorecard for administrators