• Welcome to the MDE English Language Arts web page.

English language arts are the vehicles of communication by which we live, work, share, and build ideas and understandings of the present, reflect on the past, and imagine the future. Through the English language arts, we learn to appreciate, integrate, and apply what is learned for real purposes in our homes, schools, communities, and workplaces.

• Michigan K-8 Grade Level Content Expectations
Take the first step in joining the Grade Level Content Expectations Learning Community. Welcome to a growing network of educators from across the state of Michigan. This site now contains grade specific packets with links to grade specific GLCEs, parent documents, alignments to the MCF, and more!

• Understanding by Design: Teaching the Most Challenging ELA GLCE 

• Michigan School Improvement Framework 

• Michigan's Genre Project 
Clarifying "Genre Study" and Identifying Teaching Points for ELA GLCE Genre

• Michigan Merit Curriculum - English Language Arts

• High School Content Expectations Rollout PowerPoint for English Language Arts 
Getting the Big Picture: Making Connections through Collaboration for Success.

• National Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA)
The National Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA) is the only national research and development center funded by US Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) to conduct research dedicated to gaining knowledge to improve students' English and literacy achievement in schools across America.

• English Language Arts Informational ListServ 

• Writing Across the Curriculum: Social Studies 

• Understanding by Design: Teaching the Most Challenging ELA GLCE 

• Michigan Merit Curriculum - English Language Arts

• Michigan Curriculum Framework 
The Michigan Curriculum Framework includes standards focused on content, teaching and learning, assessment, and professional development.

• Mid-Michigan Consortium Sample ELA and Mathematics GLCE Assessments Items

• English Language Arts Standards 

• National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) State Profiles, including testing history and results

• Reading First: Survey of Enacted Curriculum (PowerPoint File) 
English Language Arts Reading, Mathematics, Science 2003-04

• Early Reading First - a Federal Grant program for School Districts

• Reading First Exemplary Teachers

• Michigan Reading First Coach Information

• Michigan Reading First Information
Contact: Betty Underwood, (517) 241-4285

• Department of Education Issues First Round Of Reading First Funding, $11.5 Million Awarded 

• R.E.A.D.Y. Early Learning Program
Developed by the Michigan Department of Education and early childhood experts to provide you with information and material to help give young children a great start.

• Family FUNdamentals Learning Activities

• National award-winning High Standards and Student Achievement Brochure for parents/educators. 

• Michigan Reading First Information
Contact: Betty Underwood, (517) 241-4285

• National Writing Projects of Michigan

• A Message from the National Writing Projects of Michigan 

• English Language Arts Informational ListServ 

• National Council of Teachers of English Home Page

• Michigan Teacher Network (MTN)

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)