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Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms. Essential Practices for Developing Academic Language and Disciplinary Literacy.

Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms

We are all Reading Teachers, Now - CORElaborate. A few years ago, I participated in a book study group with my colleagues around building literacy skills.

We are all Reading Teachers, Now - CORElaborate

When it was suggested that we share this work and build a literacy skill set with classes like science, one person said, “Well, 9th grade science doesn’t really use the textbook. I’ve talked to them, and it’s simply not enough time. They can choose to spend the period slogging through the words and the high-level text to finally understand the basic concept. Or, the period can be spent learning the basic concept in 20 minutes with a simple language text or video, and then delve into the content at a deeper level. At this point, our conversation stalled: it was an Either/Or choice in the teachers’ minds. Fast forward to today and the implementation of the Common Core. Let’s delve deeper by taking a look at the Informational Text vs. Chart from Common Core State Standards outlining informational to literary text ratios for grade level bands. And, remember to start small. Making Every Teacher a Reading Teacher: Putnam City Secondary Educators Work to Help Struggling Readers - SEDL Letter, Putting Reading First, Volume XIV, Number 3, December 2002.

Home | SEDL Letter Archive by Johanna Franke Published in SEDL Letter Volume XIV, Number 3, December 2002, Putting Reading First Introduction | Improving Students' Reading Ability | Developing Capacity for the Future | Related Resources & Products Low student achievement in reading at the secondary level is widespread across the nation, including the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory's five-state region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Making Every Teacher a Reading Teacher: Putnam City Secondary Educators Work to Help Struggling Readers - SEDL Letter, Putting Reading First, Volume XIV, Number 3, December 2002

Is Every Teacher a Literacy Teacher?: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas. Guest Blogger: Dr.

Is Every Teacher a Literacy Teacher?: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

William L. Heller, Using Data Program Director, Teaching Matters There is a growing philosophy that every teacher is a literacy teacher, a view that is becoming increasingly important as states prepare for the Common Core State Standards, which place an emphasis on content literacy. But what does “every teacher is a literacy teacher” actually mean? Will science teachers be expected to put away the Bunsen.

How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas? You are busy this summer planning and reworking lessons -- adding, adjusting, and tweaking.

How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas?

Here's something to think about, fast forward to fall: We know students do plenty of listening in our classes, but what about the other three communication skills they should be engaging in and practicing daily? I'm talking about reading, writing, and speaking. Let's define literacy. It was once known simply as the ability to read and write.

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Content_Areas_report. Literature and Nonfiction: Common-Core Advocates Strike Back - Curriculum Matters. The faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes. New Literacy Research Infuses Common Core. Learning on the move - Spokesman.com - Oct. 13. Close [X] Sorry, but you need to be logged in to share stories via e-mail.

Learning on the move - Spokesman.com - Oct. 13

This helps us prevent abuse of our e-mail system. Don't have a Spokesman.com account? Create one here for free. Lidgerwood Elementary School kindergartners are moving to learn and learning to move through a program developed by two Spokane Public Schools teachers. Is reading dying or flourishing in the Internet age? For the Homeless, Rebirth Through Socrates. The students, mostly in sweat shirts and jeans, sit around a long table dotted with soda cans and cookies and consult their highlighted copies of Plato's ''Apology.'' Two professors guide their debate over whether Socrates, on the verge of execution, was arrogant or humble.

For the Homeless, Rebirth Through Socrates

Outside, the sun sets on the neogothic campus. There could hardly be a more archetypal college scene than this one in the University of Notre Dame's O'Shaughnessy Building, with its seven stained glass windows representing the seven liberal arts, ancient disciplines from rhetoric to astronomy. Yet the 10 students in this weekly seminar fit no typical profile for Notre Dame or any university. They are current or former residents of the South Bend Center for the Homeless, men and women with the weathered features and oblique emotional balances of those who have spent many nights in the streets. ''Those of us in the grip of addiction use this process to rethink our lives,'' said Michael A.

Timothy W. 'Race to Literacy' Plan Proposed - Curriculum Matters. UserID: iCustID: IsLogged: false.

'Race to Literacy' Plan Proposed - Curriculum Matters

Common Core Thrusts Librarians Into Leadership Role. Published Online: September 11, 2012.

Common Core Thrusts Librarians Into Leadership Role

In the classroom, making classic literature matter. Reading nonfiction is not optional SmartBlogs. When Walter Dean Myers — noted young adult novelist — became the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature in January, he said something particularly profound in one of his first interviews with Publisher’s Weekly.

Reading nonfiction is not optional SmartBlogs

Literacies ELA, SS/H, Sci, Tech. Basal-Reader Project Goes Online - Curriculum Matters. Common Core State Standards Project / Language Arts and Literacy. The Council of the Great City schools has used strategic support teams to make recommendations for enhancing central office systems to improve student achievement in language arts and literacy. Additionally, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Council is collaborating with the writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other partner organizations to build the tools and support necessary to focus on the successful implementation of the new standards. SUMMER READING WINNER - The Learning Network Blog. Participants in Dance United, which is made up of school dropouts and petty — and not so petty — criminals who have been “sentenced to dance.”

One of our runners-up this week chose this piece. Go to related article » Below, we announce the final winners of our Summer Reading Contest. Judges from Flocabulary chose from the 615 entries submitted in Week 9. Our Third Annual Summer Reading Contest. Update | Aug 19: This contest is now over, but you can read the work of all our winners here. Would you like it if your students… — Regularly read nonfiction (and “informational” texts) this summer?

Books That Build Community - The Book Whisperer. 21st-Century Students Need Books, Not Textbooks.

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