Common Core Online. Close Reading: Am I Getting Close? I have become obsessed with learning more about Close Reading. I have been reading everything I can get my hands on to understand this strategy and be able to assist teachers with this shift in thinking. I have devoted much of the last 20 years to the study of literacy. I am not sure I should admit this, but up until the onset of the Common Core I had never heard of the specific strategy of Close Reading. Timothy Shanahan states in a PPT presentation it has been around for a quite long time. A closer look at the strategy reveals I have used parts of the process with students, but not in its entirety. Knowing that this strategy is something the teachers I work with should know about, I set out to develop a few resources to assist in their efforts. The materials I have developed are based on the works of Timothy Shanahan, Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Diane Lapp and Beth Burke. It should be noted that NOT every reading should be a CLOSE READING.
Like this: Like Loading... All About Adolescent Literacy | AdLit.org. Informational Texts vs. Fiction Ratios in the Opening Ceremony of London’s 2012 Olympics | Used Books in Class. Mary Poppins to the rescue:Photo from A Guide to the London 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremoniestheblaze.com The London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony was broadcast at 9pm on 27 July 2012 (EST).
As a platoon of Mary Poppins clones decended clutching their iconic umbrellas to vanquish the Lord Voldemort mid-ceremony, I was suddenly struck by an idea. How would the Common Core English Language Arts Standards view this production? The extravanganza developed by world-class directors Danny Boyle, Bradley Hemmings and Jenny Sealey and their teams was an eclectic mix of information and fiction that “celebrated contributions the UK has made to the world through innovation and revolution.” What grade, however, would the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) give London’s Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies? Recommended ratios of informational texts to fiction by grade level. A quick tally of the highlights as they appeared as either fiction or informational text: Like this: Like Loading...
The Times and the Common Core Standards: Reading Strategies for 'Informational Text' Update | Sept. 2012: We’ll be exploring the new Common Core State Standards, and how teaching with The Times can address them, through a series of blog posts. You can find them all here, in the lesson plan category “Common Core.” Forty-four states and United States territories have adopted the Common Core Standards and, according to this recent Times article, one major change teachers can expect to see is more emphasis on reading “informational,” or nonfiction, texts across subject areas: While English classes will still include healthy amounts of fiction, the standards say that students should be reading more nonfiction texts as they get older, to prepare them for the kinds of material they will read in college and careers.
In the fourth grade, students should be reading about the same amount from “literary” and “informational” texts, according to the standards; in the eighth grade, 45 percent should be literary and 55 percent informational, and by 12th grade, the split should be 30/70. New Feature: Test Yourself, Critical Thinking. For a couple of years now, we’ve asked students to “test themselves” with daily math and English-language questions.
We’re excited to announce that starting next month, we’ll be adding a weekly critical thinking question to the mix as well. This week we’ll be testing the idea by publishing one a day, so let us know what you think. First, though, what do we mean by “critical thinking”? Well, we’ll be asking students to look closely at short excerpts from Times articles or opinion pieces to analyze what the writers are saying and how they’re saying it. We want the questions to encourage readers to examine evidence, note rhetorical and stylistic devices, investigate assumptions and claims, understand allusions, make predictions and consider context.
All these are, of course, habits of mind for proficient readers, and each is also emphasized by the common core standards for informational text. Now, on to our first question … This question was written by Jessica Lahey. Reading. Common Core State Standards Reading Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards- Informational Text K-5 Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards- Literature K-5 Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards-Foundational Skills K-5 Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Speaking and Listening Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards- Language Standards K-5 CC K-5 Read Aloud SR GR IR CC Narrative Flipbook K-5 CC Narrative Flipbook 6-12 Support Materials for CCSS in Reading Reading to the Core - Web resource to support Close and Critical Reading using the strategy Guided Highlighted Reading as a scaffold Literacy Leaders - Text Structure Web Resource Text Structure Map - Student Workmap for applying 5 text structure frames Text Structure Chart with Paragraph Frames Paths for Literacy - Close and Critical Reading Common Core Text Exemplars and Close and Critical Reading Below are Close and Critical Reading teaching units that use the exemplary text from the Common Core Appendix B.
SD ELA Curation Resources. Text Compactor: Free Online Automatic Text Summarization Tool. Reading Critically - Interrogating Texts - Harvard Library LibGuides at Harvard Library. ELA_SBS_K5Color.xls. Success at the Core : How Teams & Teachers Transform Instruction. Web 2.0 Financial Literacy K-12 Sites.
Content Literacy Strategies. DOE English Language Arts [Delaware Department of Education] English/Language Arts Common Core. Untitled. Cheryl's Classroom Tips: ELA Common Core State Standards Checklists. Stop by my TPT store to download the common-core checklists. Each file includes one checklist (grade level/content specific), a planning template, and a quick-check form. Simple. Effective. Time-Saving. The common core checklists help you plan and stay on track to ensure you've taught all objectives that might show up on the end-of-the-year assessment. Even though you've taught them, how do you know students have learned them? The NGA Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) hereby grant a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to copy, publish, distribute, and display the Common Core State Standards for purposes that support the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Attribution; Copyright Notice: NGA Center/CCSSO shall be acknowledged as the sole owners and developers of the Common Core State Standards, and no claims to the contrary shall be made. Region 7 Professional Development Support - ELA Process Support. Common Core State Standards - ELA & Literacy Resources. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) & Literacy are the foundation of the K-12 Oregon Diploma; the Essential Skills for reading and writing are embedded within the CCSS.
Without these skills, students won’t have access to full content in school. That is why the CCSS include reading and writing standards customized for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. To be college and career-ready, students learn to read and write in ELA and to apply the skills in all classes. Contacts. Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. Common Core State Standards - English Language Arts. English Language Arts Missouri Learning Standards Implementation Plan Over the past year, a number of English language arts curriculum and assessment activities have been occurring in preparation for the implementation of the Missouri Learning Standards and related curriculum and assessment including: Reinstatement of the Writing Prompts on the grades 3 and 7 grade-level assessments and the English II EOC exam Alignment of existing grade-level and EOC item banks and passages to the Missouri Learning Standards.
The information provided by this work will aid in maximizing the assessment of items that align to the Missouri Learning Standards on the 2013 – 2014 assessments. In addition, it will provide Missouri educators with results of student performance on items that specifically align with Missouri Learning Standards.
Given these developments and changes, there are curricular changes that need to occur within the next two years related to the new Missouri Learning Standards. Common Core - Resources. Common Core State Standards for ELA. Implementation of the ELA Common Core State Standards Across the Country. Brenda Overturf is a member of the International Reading Association's Board of Directors. You can reach her at boverturf[AT]reading[DOT]org. This is the final post in a three-part series that examines the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Part one introduced CCSS and provided context for those new to the standards. Part two reviewed the key features that offer opportunities for educators to transform their teaching. States across the country are in varying stages of adopting and implementing the CCSS. Currently, there are also state consortiums developing assessment systems aligned with the CCSS. In September, The Center on Education Policy released a report titled Common Core State Standards: Progress and Challenges in School Districts' Implementation to provide data on how districts are starting to implement the standards. These percentages suggest many states are already actively engaged in preparing to implement the standards. NC ELA Common Core - Resources. Find a Book - Lexile Framework for Reading. Bookworms :: Free reading resources for teachers. English Language Arts (ELA) Common Core Standards | Elementary Tests. In some aspects, the Common Core Standards for English, Language Arts (ELA) are more complex to understand than the standards for Mathematics.
They are divided both by grade and by subject. These are the general subjects in ELA for Kindergarten through Grade 5. In 6th Grade (through 12th) the ELA Common Core Standards also have requirements for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects. Pay attention to the acronyms, as on many of the state test results you get back from your school, you will see a score for an abbreviation that is not easily deciphered. They will have something like this: NV.CCSS.K.RL.1 which you are supposed to be able to read as Nevada, Common Core State Standards, Kindergarten, Reading: Literature, Benchmark # 1 (Substitute your child’s state, grade, etc.). Reading: Literature (RL) Reading: Informational Text (RI) Reading: Foundational Skills (RF) Writing (W) Speaking and Listening (SL) Language (L)
Reading Level Conversion Chart, Leveling Books | Benchmark Education Company. 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. We have realigned our Lexile ranges to match the Common Core Standards' text complexity grade bands and adjusted upward its trajectory of reading comprehension development through the grades to indicate that all students should be reading at the college and career readiness level by no later than the end of high school. 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.
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