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Www.isbe.net/common_core/pdf/ela-teach-strat-read-text-6-12.pdf. PDFfiles/Atoka.pdf. CCSS Module 2 - Shifts and Alignment. Local.rrgsd.org/videos/Viewing Guide.pdf. List: What Common Core authors suggest high schoolers should read. Effective Search Resources - a short list. Doing effective research is a core skill (some would say 'life skill') that students need to learn effectively.

Effective Search Resources - a short list

And, one of the design considerations for Common Core is to blend research and media skills into the standards overall. (I've noted specific 5th grade Writing standards at the end of the post, below). The CCSS include 'research' in ELA Language, Writing, and in the "Literacy for History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects" section of the ELA standards. Whew! It's everywhere! Some primary components of effective research are using appropriate search termslooking carefully at the results and evaluating them for efficacyrephrasing/rewriting/combining the information into the student's own wordsappropriate citing of the source (including images, text, video) (We'll circle back to this one specifically in a future post.)

Here's a very good set of lesson plans from Google Search Education to practice these search/research skills: Here are some other very valuable resources: English Language Arts. Click here to view all curriculum materials for English Language Arts and Mathematics.

English Language Arts

Authentic Reading Materials These modules include authentic reading materials. Authentic reading materials include published works that are typically encountered by students in daily life, such as in magazines, books or newspapers. The use of authentic reading material may mean that some material is emotionally charged or may use language outside of a student's particular cultural experience. All curriculum decisions are made at the local level. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia.

What English classes should look like in Common Core era. The recent controversy over how much fiction and non-fiction high school students are supposed to read under the Common Core State Standards begged the question of where the 70 percent non-fiction 30 percent fiction for seniors actually came from and how English classes should look.

What English classes should look like in Common Core era

Here Carol Jago, a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English, explains. She has taught high school for 32 years and is associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA. She is the author of “With Rigor for All: Meeting Common Core Standards for Reading Literature and Classics in the Classroom.” By Carol Jago The claim that the Common Core State Standards have abolished the teaching of literature makes for a great headline. Mapping Media to the Common Core » What do you want to CREATE today? Staff. Summer Enrichment Reading Assignments Davidson County Schools students enrolled in Honors and AP English I, II, III, and IV are required to complete a Summer Enrichment Reading Assignment.

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Students are required read an assigned text and to write an essay based upon their reading on the second day of the school year regardless of which semester they are scheduled to take English. Inspirational Teaching Videos: Covering Common Core, Math, Science, English And More. Common Core English/Language Arts. Common Core Strand Learning Pathways Select a strand or grade level below to begin exploring our collection of standards-based resources.

Common Core English/Language Arts

Overview. 5 Things Every Teacher Should be Doing to Meet the Common Core's Literacy Standards. California Common Core State Standards: Professional Learning Modules. Common Core English Language Arts Index. Association of California School Administrators - Common Core Resources. Common Core State Standards Resources - Curriculum & Instruction. Common Core Multimedia Center. Document Analysis Worksheets.

Español Document analysis is the first step in working with primary sources. Teach your students to think through primary source documents for contextual understanding and to extract information to make informed judgments. Use these worksheets — for photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, and sound recordings — to teach your students the process of document analysis. Follow this progression: The first few times you ask students to work with primary sources, and whenever you have not worked with primary sources recently, model careful document analysis using the worksheets. Don’t stop with document analysis though. Materials created by the National Archives and Records Administration are in the public domain. These worksheets were revised in February, 2017. 5 Things Every Teacher Should be Doing to Meet the Common Core. What Research Says About Reading:The Case for Informational Text. Nell K.

What Research Says About Reading:The Case for Informational Text

Duke We should not wait to address this problem until students reach late elementary, middle, and high school, when learning from text is a cornerstone of the curriculum. Four strategies can help teachers improve K-3 students' comprehension of informational text. Teachers should: Increase students' access to informational text. Increase Access Chances are that your personal bookshelves, magazine racks, and Web site bookmarks are replete with informational text. Young students need to learn about the range of purposes that text can serve (Duke, 2003). When teachers include informational text in the classroom, they also expand opportunities for home-school connections that support literacy (Duke & Purcell-Gates, 2003). Increased access to informational text can also better motivate the many students who prefer this kind of text or who have strong interests in the topics addressed in such text (Caswell & Duke, 1998; Jobe & Dayton-Sakari, 2002).

Increase Time References. The Standards. CCCS: Designing Units of Study. Acheive the Core: Text Dependent Questions. The Gettysburg Address: Literary Nonfiction and the Common Core. Although House of Cards on Netflix, the fictional Elmer Gantry and the preposterous Watergate cover-up all provide ammunition to those who view rhetoric pejoratively, rhetoric should be studied as a powerful tool for good.

The Gettysburg Address: Literary Nonfiction and the Common Core

Winston Churchill composing speeches from bed comes to mind, as does the Gettysburg Address, a marvel of brevity more poignant than Winter Aconite, a speech that redefined the Civil War as a national fight for equality. Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas. Click the "References" link above to hide these references.

Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

ACT (2006). Reading between the lines: What the ACT reveals about college readiness in reading. Ames, IA: Author. Bates, L., Breslow, N., and Hupert, N. (2009). Five states’ efforts to improve adolescent literacy (Issues & Answers Report, REL 2009–No. 067). Using Classroom Tech to Meet CCSS. We had the opportunity to write an article for a recent issue of Education Magazine.

Using Classroom Tech to Meet CCSS

We thank Dustin Chambers and his staff, and recommend you check out their publication at the link above. Below is the text of our article. Accepting the viewpoint that the Common Core State Standards is a blueprint for education creates a number of issues educators are required to tackle. One issue is recognizing that the new standards only detail the student outcome, not how that outcome is learned by the student. English Language Arts Standards. The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (“the standards”) represent the next generation of K–12 standards designed to prepare all students for success in college, career, and life by the time they graduate from high school.

English Language Arts Standards

The Common Core asks students to read stories and literature, as well as more complex texts that provide facts and background knowledge in areas such as science and social studies. Students will be challenged and asked questions that push them to refer back to what they’ve read. This stresses critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills that are required for success in college, career, and life. The standards establish guidelines for English language arts (ELA) as well as for literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects. 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. Primary Sources Meet Free Web 2.0 Tools for Common Core Learning. Alexander ReederA still photo from a video of a QR code on a Tokyo building, part of the “Talk to Me” exhibition at MoMA. Go to related article » We invited staffers at Primary Source to do a guest-blog version of a presentation we saw them make at the International Society for Technology in Education conference last summer. Because the organization specializes in helping educators use primary sources, like newspapers, to teach about world histories and cultures, its writers chose three well-known tech tools — Google Docs, QR codes and LiveBinders — and showed how they might be matched creatively with Times articles and other resources to teach three topics that draw on both current and historical Times reporting.

What tech tools do you use to teach with primary resources? We’d love to hear more ideas, especially if, like these tools, they’re free. — Katherine Schulten 1. 2. 3. New Education Standards Face Growing Opposition. Teaching Argument Writing 6-12.