Guided Reading: The Romance and the Reality - Fountas - 2012 - The Reading Teacher. Common Core - CCSS-Based Curriculum Maps. Core Knowledge® Foundation. Teaching Channel. Common Core State Standards: Elementary School. Middle School Common Core State Standards. How To Read The Common Core. Achievethecore.org / Read it, Write it, Tell it. How to Use the Teacher Resources Guide All eight Read It, Write It, Tell It units are arranged in the same way. Each unit begins with the purpose of the lesson and a list of the Literary Text indicators for grades 3-4. Next, is a list of the kinds of questions that have been asked on past Ohio academic proficiency and achievement tests about the literary text element profiled in the unit. The questions are listed in order of difficulty with types of questions often asked of students as early as Grade Three at the top and those usually asked of Grade Seven students at the bottom. 1.
This section of the guide provides information about the individual Read It, Write It, Tell It DVD episode. 2. This section may be used before viewing the Read It, Write It, Tell It DVD episode. 3. This section includes questions about the episode and the unit’s literary text element. 4. This section provides one or more lessons, usually with worksheets – and answers, that teach the unit’s literary element.
America Achieves: Welcome. ReadWorks.org. LearnZillion. Share My Lesson - Free K-12 Resources By Teachers, For Teachers. Graphic Organizers « Freeology.com. Perfect Paragraph Friendship « Freeology.com. Home | EngageNY. Parent and Family Resources. The Common Core State Standards are important because they will help all children – no matter who they are – learn the same skills.
They create clear expectations for what your child should know and be able to do in key areas: reading, writing, speaking and listening, language and mathematics. If you know what these expectations are, then you can work with the teacher and help your child prepare. Read the letter from Commissioner King to parents regarding the release of the grades 3-8 test results. Watch the new video for parents and families about the Common Core Standards and the Grade 3-8 state assessments in English Language Arts and Mathematics: Watch the videos below for an overview of the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics.
To see how the Common Core Instructional Shifts outlined in these videos are broken down, see the Common Core Video Series. Graphic Organizers. Teaching Practices and Protocols. Common Core Toolkit. Video Library. Video Library - ELA. Books. Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks.
P-12 ELA Text List. Gale's Professional Development Collections - Broome Tioga BOCES (ASCD only) 1. Introduction. An Overview. This 14-minute video provides an overview of the Common Core State Standards in ELA/Literacy. NYS Commissioner of Education John B. King Jr. and contributing author David Coleman discuss the background of the Common Core State Standards, their value in the state, the principles of their development, and the changes required of schools during this transition. The video provides an introduction or re-introduction to the standards, as well as fodder for a discussion about what it will mean to implement these standards.
This is just one way of conducting professional development around this video. We encourage you to use this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. Why We Need Common Core: "I choose C." Key Changes and their Evidence. Three-Minute Video Explaining the Common Core State Standards. Testing Do Not Disturb Door Hanger « Freeology.com. Commissioner King in Conversation: How Will the Common Core Assessments be Harder and What Will That Mean? Common Core Assessment Video Series: How Do the Common Core Assessments Fit into our Children's Education? PARCC Model Content Frameworks. Guided Reading and the Common Core State Standards. Common Core or Guided Reading. Recently, I've been fielding questions about guided reading (à la Fountas and Pinnell) and the common core; mainly about the differences in how they place students in texts. Before going there, let me point out that there is a lot of common ground between guided reading and common core, including high quality text, the connections between reading and writing, the emphasis on high level questions and discussion, the idea that students learn from reading, and so on.
Nary a hint of conflict between the two approaches on any of those issues. Not so with student-book placements; on that there is a substantial divide. Guided reading says go easy, and common core says challenge them. Easy, according to F&P, means placing kids in books that they can read with better than 90% accuracy and with high reading comprehension (and they make no distinction between beginners and more adept readers in this regard). How can these schemes be so different?
73 percent of teachers think they are prepared to teach the Common Core, and other facts that should keep CCSS supporters up at night | Common Core Online. Video: Text-based Answers. This is an 11 minute video which features a discussion between NYS Commissioner of Education John B. King Jr., David Coleman (contributing author to the Common Core) and Kate Gerson (a Sr. Fellow with the Regents Research Fund) addressing Shift 4 –Text Based Answers.
By unpacking Shift 4, the discussion addresses what it takes to create opportunities for students to have deep, evidence-based conversations about text. After watching this video, educators might ask themselves: What is shift 4? What will this mean we have to change about our practice? What challenges will we face as we make this shift? Participants might also work together to review the exemplars of guiding questions and then design an interesting sequence of text dependent questions around a particular text. This is just one way of conducting professional development around this video. PowerPoint: Understanding Text-Dependent Questions. Close Reading Strategies with Informational Text by Expeditionary Learning. America Achieves: Welcome. "The Great Fire" Exemplar. “The Making of a Scientist” Exemplar. LearnZillion.
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Verb List. ELA standards. Fifty Shades of the Common Core: ELA. Text Complexity Grade Bands and Lexile® Bands. "It isn't often that a society gets a chance to start afresh, and I think that moment is here. " —Chester E. Finn, Jr.* The Common Core State Standards Initiative offers the following overlapping Lexile bands (or Lexile ranges**, as defined by Common Core) to place texts in the following text complexity grade bands. According to the Common Core Standards, qualitative scales of text complexity should be anchored at one end by descriptions of texts representative of those required in typical first-year credit-bearing college courses and in workforce training programs. Similarly, quantitative measures should identify the college- and career-ready reading level as one endpoint of the scale. New research was released on August 15, 2012 concerning text complexity.
The Common Core Standards advocate a "staircase" of increasing text complexity, beginning in grade 2, so that students can develop their reading skills and apply them to more difficult texts. Please contact us for more information. Video: Aligning Curricular Materials. This is a four minute video in which David Coleman, a contributing author to the Common Core State Standards, describes an exemplary module that he and his fellow authors have designed. After watching this video and reading the Publishers’ Criteria and accompanying rubric, educators might select curricular material and assess it using the expectations articulated in the Publishers’ Criteria and measured through the rubrics. In what ways do these curricular materials meet this high bar for Common Core alignment? In what ways can their alignment be improved? Participants may even want to have a variety of materials available and spend time “norming” on the scoring of those materials against the rubric until a common language and/or a common “eye” is established amongst the group so that the definition of “Common Core Alignment” becomes a shared understanding.
This is just one way of conducting professional development around this video. Selection of Authentic Texts for Common Core Instruction: Guidance and a List of Resources for Text Selection. Central to the heart of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts & Literacy is reading, writing, speaking and listening grounded in text. CCSS aligned assessment and instruction requires texts be of quality—that is, worth reading and re-reading, and capable of supporting rigorous questions grounded in evidence from the text. Inherent in the standards is the need to engage students in texts of appropriate complexity for their grade level and to direct student attention to the complexity of the texts.
This document serves to guide educators in how to select texts that can support CCSS-aligned instruction and assessment as well as some resources to find these texts. Guidance for selection: Quality and Opportunity for CCSS aligned instruction and assessment Texts that support CCSS must contain the specific characteristics necessary to measure different standards. Literary Texts: Stories Dramas Poetry Informational Texts: Literary Nonfiction All texts should display: How to use these rubrics... Rubric for Lessons and Units: ELA. Rubric for Lessons and Units: Math. Guide to Creating Questions for Close Analytic Reading.doc. Evidence_guide_ela_3-5.pdf. Basal Alignment Project. Free, Common Core-aligned lessons for 3rd-5th grade basal reading series. Lesson revisions currently available for: HMH CollectionsHMH JourneysHMH Medallion/ReadingHMH Nation’s ChoiceHMH StoryTownHMH TrophiesMH Imagine It!
MH Open CourtMH TreasuresMH Treasures (CA)Pearson Reading Street Get involved! How to join the Basal Alignment Project If you, your school or your district would be interested in joining the Basal Alignment Project development team, we welcome your help! To participate you will need to be a member of EdModo. How to join this Group on EdModo: 1. 2. . - Click "Join" under Groups, in the left-hand section of the page - Enter code F4Q6NM (please note: there may be a delay in accessing the group as your request must be approved) 3. For more information on how to use the BAP materials: After joining the EdModo Group, see the Folder titled: "An Introduction to the Basal Alignment Project". Help Author the Basal Alignment Project. The Lexile Framework. Evidence_guide_ela_3-5. 10b-results_meeting_protocol. Data driven implementation-rubric.