UEN Resources for K-12 Education
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Argumentative Writing
Here are some resources to help your students improve their argumentative writing skills.
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Digital Books
Here are digital textbooks created by groups of content and teaching experts, including university faculty, district and school specialists, teachers, and USBE staff.
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Digital Media Arts
Digital Media Arts Education encompasses digital arts + interconnectivity across all aesthetic, artistic and academic elements, forms, contents, disciplines and domains, for the purposes of learning and creating.
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Elementary Performance Tasks
These Performance Task Templates and Lesson Plans, developed by Utah educators, align to the Elementary Utah Core.
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English Language Arts Courses and Resources
Visit UEN's English Language Arts page to view the Utah core and support materials.
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Literacy Resources
These literacy resources have been gathered to help District Literacy Coordinators and Instructional Coaches with their professional development activities.
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NROC HippoCampus
Free educational resources for middle school, high school and college students and instructors - including video demonstrations, interactives and test prep.
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Persuasive / Opinion Writing
A collection of online resources to help students write effective persuasive essays.
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Presidential Writings Project
Utah’s secondary educators have designed well scaffolded lessons that support the increased cognitive rigor of the Utah literacy standards. The focus of this project is presidential writings.
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Reading and Writing Rubrics
Here "Close Reading Rubrics" and "Argumentative Writing Rubrics" for Secondary English Language Arts.
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Sample Student Performance Assessments
These sample assessments for Secondary English Language Arts have been vetted by select Utah Educators and the USBE English Language Arts Specialist.
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Text Complexity Rubric for Informational Text
This rubric will help you evaluate the Text Complexity of Informational Text.
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Text Complexity Rubric for Literary Text
This rubric was designed to help you evaluate the Text Complexity of Literary Text.
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Utah's K-12 Literacy Framework
This guide includes strategies for improving literacy achievement and outcomes for children in grades K–12.
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