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Common Core and Point of View. Reading for Literature Standard 6 is one of the most misunderstood Common Core Standards. many teachers are mistakenly teaching this as a unit on first, second, and third person.

Common Core and Point of View

This is simply off base. What RL6 is really about is the character’s point of view. This means: how does that character see the world? What is the character’s perspective? I have seen so much material out there that keeps teaching narration. There are two different types of Point of View referenced in Common Core:One is about the Narration and the other is about the Character. Low level text investigation centers on Narration. Cold Versus Warm Close Reading: Stamina and the Accumulation of Misdirection. By Catherine E.

Cold Versus Warm Close Reading: Stamina and the Accumulation of Misdirection

Snow Harvard Graduate School of Education June 6, 2013 Over the last 18 months I have had the chance to review a couple dozen proposed curricular units, developed by district teams or other groups, and designed to prepare students to meet the Common Core State Standards (or, more specifically, to pass the assessments aligned with the Common Core). I have been simultaneously impressed by the quality of the tasks assigned to students in those units, and dismayed by the lack of attention to providing any justification to the students for why they should undertake such difficult tasks. The tasks were more rigorous and more challenging than most students currently have access to, and undeniably would constitute a better preparation for the demands of college and the work place – if students can actually engage them.

But if students find the tasks too difficult or too irrelevant to bother with, then the rigor will be of little value. Why would anyone reject this idea? K-6 Reading Lessons: Common Core Aligned. Reading Works is a Gem for Standards Aligned K-6 Reading Lessons click on any image to access the specific part of the site What is Reading Works?

K-6 Reading Lessons: Common Core Aligned

Per their site: 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.

The Times and the Common Core Standards: Reading Strategies for 'Informational Text'

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.

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). Biancarosa, G., & Snow, C. (2006). LiteracyCoach. Teaching Literacy Through History. Acheive the Core: Text Dependent Questions. The Greatest Books: The Best Nonfiction Books of All Time - 1 to 50. Combined Passage Selection Guidelines and Worksheets_0. Founders Online: Home. The Primary Source Librarian » Looking Beyond Our Profession. Even though social media has expanded our capacity to interact with educators from around the world, often our Twitter and other social media environments still keep us fairly insulated from people outside our profession.

The Primary Source Librarian » Looking Beyond Our Profession

I am occasionally reminded that I have something to offer those “outsiders” if I only remember to look. Last week my husband and I and two friends spent a delightful afternoon and evening in the nearby Rocky Mountains with a friend whose family has owned a cabin in an idyllic setting for many decades. While we relaxed on the cabin’s deck overlooking a pond at sunset following a long hike, the conversation turned to what we had been reading, as it so often does. Our friend had been reading Isabel Wilkerson’s superb book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, for her book club. Later in the week, I remembered to send the blog link to our friend: The Great Migration in Library of Congress Primary Sources.

Dear Ms. Imagine that! The Primary Source Librarian » Looking Beyond Our Profession. The best note-taking app for iPad. Annotated Poem.pdf. Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension Using Thank You, Mr. Falker. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.

Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension Using Thank You, Mr. Falker

If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. How typeface influences the way we read and think. How typeface influences the way we read and think.

Conquest - Anne Matthews. Commonplace Book - Summer 2013 Print By Anne Matthews Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed.

Conquest - Anne Matthews

—Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Change for Peace” speech, April 16, 1953 If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans. —Stephen Hawking, “Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking,” 2010 He increased his pace, and as the car devoured the street and leapt forth on the high road through the open country, he was only conscious that he was Toad once more, Toad at his best and highest, Toad the terror, the traffic-queller, the Lord of the lone trail, before whom all must give way or be smitten into nothingness and everlasting night. —Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 1908 Often, they carried each other, the wounded or weak. Close Reading + Visual Literacy=Pathways for Understanding « the open book. Guest blogger Katie Cunningham is an Assistant Professor at Manhattanville College.

Close Reading + Visual Literacy=Pathways for Understanding « the open book

Her teaching and scholarship centers around children’s literature, critical literacy, and supporting teachers to make their classrooms joyful and purposeful. Katie has presented at numerous national conferences and is the editor of The Language and Literacy Spectrum, New York Reading Association’s literacy journal. John Berger, in his famous documentary and book Ways of Seeing, explained that “Seeing comes before words. Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers.

Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity?

Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers

It’s a common condition, but a highly problematic one. The compulsion to quell that unease can inspire snap judgments, rigid thinking, and bad decision-making. Fortunately, new research suggests a simple anecdote for this affliction: Read more literary fiction. What do good readers do? Examining texts for teaching ideas. Last week, our district was lucky enough to be able to offer some very high quality professional development to our teachers. We had the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Staff Developers come to do a primary and an intermediate session on the Reading Workshop. What a great week of learning! And certainly overwhelming at times, as there was so much information shared. That’s what I want to talk about… the feeling that teaching in a reading workshop is overwhelming. It certainly can be because there is simply so much to know… how readers learn to read, what books will match which readers, how to manage and structure teaching in this format.

But, on the flip side, this way of teaching is also intuitive. Emily DeLiddo was our Intermediate Grades Staff Developer. Why is this helpful? Up-Close Reading: Tackling Complex Text. Last week during a reading comprehension lesson, my 2nd graders were arguing with each other . . . and yelling at me! Really! It’s the truth, but . . . maybe not what you imagined. It all started when I was about to introduce A Toad for Tuesday , a book that would be the jumping-off point for my winter/animal survival unit. I had handed my class a short passage from it with no introduction or clue about its origin. Common Core: Now What?:Closing in on Close Reading. 2012: The Year in Graphics - Graphic. Close Reading Exemplars. 'It Opens Your Mind': A Student-Made Video About a Year of Reading The Times. A student-produced and directed video was made, according to teachers, “off the cuff, from the heart and without notes.”

Since September, the ninth graders in Sarah Gross’s and Jonathan Olsen’s humanities classes at High Technology High School in New Jersey have started their day by reading The New York Times. Sometimes their teachers choose articles for them, other times students browse the paper and choose their own — but every day they write about what they read. By late May, these students had finished over 200 articles and composed over 120 short essays each, on topics from chemical weapons and gun control to Broadway musicals, Google Glass and floating Buddhas .

Workshops and Special Events > Tools for Teachers & Close Reading Primer - Aspen DRL. 122463-CCSS_Text_Complexity_webinar_handout_2. Four Major Shifts in Literacy. This video mini-series has been designed to provide an efficient pathway for understanding and implementing the most significant shifts in English/language arts and literacy instruction. Ranging from seven to ten minutes in length, each video tackles one important topic and then provides tools that educators can begin using in their classrooms immediately. The order in which the videos are watched in not critical, so please feel free to start with the one that seems the most intriguing. Major Shift 1: Emphasizing Informational Text The Common Core State Standards insist on the use of more information texts throughout the school day. This video discusses why and provides educators guidance on where to find high-quality informational texts.

Text-complex-literary-texts. ELA text exemplars.docx. IRA:CC Webinars Issues. Appendix_A_New_Research_on_Text_Complexity. Deep Reading and Text Dependent Questions Explained. Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with Diigo. Close reading is a strategy for reading complex text. In Part 1, the focus is how to do a close reading.

The focus in Part 2 is how to annotate with iPads. The focal points of this post are the teacher steps in close reading; how to create text dependent questions for informational text in 6th-12th grades; annotating in Diigo; and creating writing activities to go with close reading. Below are the teacher's steps for creating a close reading lesson. However, the student steps are in the poster shown on the right: Teacher Step 1: Choose the text Choose a short and difficult text to do a close reading on. Some examples to choose from for informational text are short speeches (or excerpts from a speech); research; paragraphs or chapters from biographies, memoirs, or historical accounts to name a few.

Teacher Step 2: Planning. Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with Tech. Students need to be taught how to read complex texts. Close Read Complex Text, and Annotate with iPads. k5_literature_continuum_20110627_130949_57.docx. k5_informational_reading_continuum_20110627_131839_63.docx. Common_core_standards_ela__continuum_k5_writing_20110627_130451_54. 612_literature_continuum_20110627_131135_59.docx. 612_informational_reading_continuum_20110627_131936_65.docx. Close Reading Exemplars.

Reading and Textural Complexity CC

Close Reading and the Common Core. What is Close Reading? What Close Reading Actually Means. By Grant Wiggins , Ph.D, Authentic Education. Disciplinary Writing. Dear Dr. Shanahan. Socratic Seminars. "The unexamined life is not worth living. "-Socrates Background. At the Core: Audiobooks Promote Critical Reading Habits.

As teachers and librarians return to school this month, many will be tasked with implementing the Common Core State Standards (www.corestandards.org) into their lesson plans. Did You Know: Note Links, and How to Use Them. Posted by Kasey Fleisher Hickey on 21 Oct 2011. What Do Santa & Hulk Hogan Have in Common? The PBS IdeaChannel is my new favorite YouTube addiction. Imagine taking everything thought provoking that PBS hangs its hat on, and wrap it up with nostalgia for the 80s and 90s, and you have the social media makings of PBS 2.0, designed for my generation.. For example, let’s compare Santa to Hulk Hogan shall we?

Awesome Stories. S. Connery Reads C.P. Cavafy’s “Ithaca,” Set to the Music of Vangelis. Video: Daniel Handler on Lemony Snicket and 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?' The One and Only Ivan. Ten Takeaway Tips for Teaching Critical Thinking. List of Literary Works. Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies. Free Graphic Organizers for Teaching Writing. Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Nonverbal Texts. ChallengeofComplexTexts. Close Reading,the Common Core, and a Freaking Awesome Prezi. Teaching With Documents. Scaffolding Close Reading Conceptually. Close Reading Exemplars. Like Lilly Like Wilson.