50 Important Links for Common Core Educators Educators across the nation are working hard this summer to begin developing updated curricula that will fit into the new Common Core State Standards, which will be fully applied in 45 U.S. states (Texas, Alaska, Nebraska, Virginia, and Minnesota have opted out of statewide participation) by 2015. Yet despite the hubbub about the new standards, which were created as a means of better equipping students with the knowledge they need to be competitive in the modern world, many teachers still have a lot of unanswered questions about what Common Core will mean for them, their students, and their schools. Luckily, the Internet abounds with helpful resources that can explain the intricacies of Common Core, offer resources for curriculum development, and even let teachers keep up with the latest news on the subject. We’ve collected just a few of those great resources here, which are essential reads for any K-12 educator in a Common Core-adopting state. Groups and Organizations Useful Resources
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US History Websites with the Common Core Forty-five states have implemented the Common Core State Standards in ELA and Mathematics for every subject. These standards are not intended to drive history and other subjects away from the curriculum, but they are designed to encourage our students to be critical readers who can apply the knowledge they learned. These standards are intended to engage students in the history curriculum and teach them skills needed to be successful. The websites listed below are useful to supplement the curriculum and teach students the skills needed to be successful 21st century learners. Under Common Core Student’s will be encouraged to: Examine and analyze primary sourcesUse evidence to support an argumentUnderstand historical contextRead multiple accounts and perspectivesQuestion: Who? Websites: Docs Teach: This website is a wonderful resource that has over Four Thousand primary documents from the National Archives.
A Guide to Visual Notetaking | The TpT Blog This post originally appeared on the blog My University Prep. Students learn in a myriad of ways. VISUAL NOTETAKING engages the students’ minds by using the upper levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. It allows students to process ideas in a fun and creative way and keeps the brain actively engaged. Visual identifiers may help boost memory as an added bonus. WHAT I DO: In all of my first year undergraduate classes I employ Visual Notetaking. The students did such an amazing job – see some of the images below. If you are interested in the section of the Apology that I teach, and if you would like to see more examples of student Notetaking, you will find my Apology unit here: Perfect Pairing #1: SOCRATES AND THE INSANITY DEFENSE REGARDING MARKING: The marking of Visual Notetaking is fairly easy to do compared to marking an essay, for instance. STUDENT FEEDBACK: The results speak for themselves. Linda Jennifer is a University lecturer and a writer.
Common Core Standard Tag Home Showing Playlists 1-10 of 33 total: Showing Playlists 1-10 of 33 total. Object(ive) Writing: A Creative Exercise for the Composition Classroom At the 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication, three well-known writing scholars led a discussion on a writing exercise they'd assigned themselves. For 30 days, each wrote for an hour about a different everyday object. After CCCC, three of us -- all friends, teachers and writers -- were energized by the idea of this activity and decided to try it out. Our Rules On each day for one month, each of us wrote for 30 minutes on one of the 30 objects we chose in advance -- each of us had selected 10. We didn't confine ourselves to any particular writing process or genre. Patrick's Ladle Laura's Retort The exercise proved to be powerful, helping us to engage one another in writing as we learned about each other, ourselves and the objects with which we interact every day. Reflections All three of us agreed to reflect on his or her experience during the process and to contribute to a final reflection blog. Writing as Praxis Objects in Composition Classrooms
Making Sense of Common Core: Textual Evidence | Roz Linder.com The first standard under Reading for Literature and Reading for Informational Text is the same. This standard focuses on textual evidence. I like to refer to this standard as the How do you know?standard. The focus here is on proving that what you see in the text is true. In grades, K-2 students are simply to use the text to answer questions about who, what, when, where, and why. Implications for Instruction: K-2 When planning for this particular standard, teachers in the lower elementary school grades are laying the foundational groundwork. K-1: The focus is on the 5Ws. 2: Teachers need to select text that incites curiosity. Implications for Instruction 3-5 3-4: In third grade, things get exciting! 5: Fifth grade teachers need to follow the same goals as the third and fourth, but there is a strong focus here on writing. Implications for Instruction 6-8 6: This standard continues exactly what fifth grade has focused on (see above). Implications for Instruction 9-12
7th Grade Reading Challenge So much of the work we do in room 235D comes down to students discovering new facets of their reading identity. Whether it means the books they like to read, when they read, or even if they read, all of the work that comes with being a reader is part of what we do. I believe in meaningful goal setting with kids, but I also know that much like us, adults, kids are great at setting goals and then doing nothing to pursue them. They are great at having us set goals for them, relinquishing ownership so that they don’t really need to do anything to work toward them. And so our work has been centered on developing their reading identities through personal goal setting and it starts with the introduction of the 7th-grade reading challenge. The challenge starts with self-reflection. After that, we unveil the actual challenge: Set a goal to begin the year, while you are expected to read at least 25 books this year if this is not a stretch for you, then set a different goal. Where do you read?
New Common Core and Essential Standards Align Teaching and Learning to Career and College Readiness As North Carolina public school students return to school for the 2012-13 year, teachers are preparing new lessons and new teaching strategies to match new teaching and learning standards in every grade and every subject. This is the first time that North Carolina has implemented a completely revised Standard Course of Study in all areas and grades at once. North Carolina teachers and students in kindergarten through 12th grade will follow Common Core state standards in mathematics and language arts. Work on North Carolina's totally revamped Standard Course of Study began in 2008, and thousands of teachers, curriculum experts and subject experts have been involved as the state developed its own Essential Standards and adopted the Common Core. "The Common Core represents an important shift in our approach to looking at what teachers teach and what students learn," said Dr. In English language arts, students and parents will notice three major shifts in what teacher emphasize.
Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels Geoff Dyer I know I said that if I lived to 100 I'd not regret what happened last night. But I woke up this morning and a century had passed. Sorry. James Meek He said he was leaving her. Jackie Collins She smiled, he smiled back, it was lust at first sight, but then she discovered he was married, too bad it couldn't go anywhere. Ian Rankin I opened the door to our flat and you were standing there, cleaver raised. Blake Morrison Blonde, GSOH, 28. David Lodge "Your money or your life!" AM Homes Sometimes we wonder why sorrow so heavy when happiness is like helium. Sophie Hannah I had land, money. Andrew O'Hagan Clyde stole a lychee and ate it in the shower. AL Kennedy It's good that you're busy. Jeffrey Archer "It's a miracle he survived," said the doctor. Anne Enright The internet ate my novel, but this is much more fun #careerchange #nolookingback oh but #worldsosilentnow Hey! Patrick Neate ur profile pic: happy – smiling & smoking. ur last post: "home!" Hari Kunzru I'm here w/ disk. SJ Watson OK.
How to Design Text Based Questions (And Teach Students to Answer Them!) - School Leadership 2 The following blog post is part of a blog series called "Comments on the Common Core," written by Eye On Education's Senior Editor,Lauren Davis. When I was a teacher, it was common practice to ask students for their personal responses to literature. I did that a lot in my classroom as a way to engage reluctant readers in a story. This shift is making some teachers uneasy. An effective set of discussion questions might begin with relatively simple questions requiring attention to specific words, details, and arguments and then move on to explore the impact of those specifics on the text as a whole. In other words, don’t ask broad or opinion-based questions until it’s clear students understand the work itself—otherwise students will be able to answer from their own experiences and won’t be learning critical reading skills. Make sure your questions require students to go back to the text and reread a word or passage in order to gather evidence or construct a response.
6 Techniques for Building Reading Skills—in Any Subject As avid lovers of literature, teachers often find themselves wanting to impart every bit of knowledge about a well-loved text to their students. And this is not just an ELA issue—other disciplines also often focus on the content of a text. However, teaching reading skills in English classes and across the disciplines is an almost guaranteed way to help students retain content. Unfortunately, the tendency to focus on the content is a real enemy to the ultimate goal of building reading skills. Without a repertoire of reading strategies that can be applied to any text, students are being shortchanged in their education. In order to teach students to read effectively, teachers must be sure that they are not simply suppliers of information on a particular text but also instructors of techniques to build reading skills. Teach Close Reading Skills Guide students in annotation by directing them to do more than highlight or underline. Appeal to the Senses Guide Students in Setting Reading Goals
Number Sense - ChildrensPictureBooks.Info Bears Odd, Bears Even by Harriet Ziefert An easy-to-read mathematics book teaches the concept of odd and even through an amusing and colorful tale of bears playing a game of basketball. Even Steven and Odd Todd by Kathryn Cristaldi The arrival of Cousin Odd Todd greatly upsets Even Steven who likes everything to come in even numbers, his pets, his library books, and even his pancakes. How Much Is a Million? Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion. Million Fish...More or Less, A by Patricia C. During an outing on the mysterious Bayou Clapateaux, Hugh Thomas catches a million fish. Monster Math by Grace Maccarone Rhyming text and illustrations follow the activities of a group of twelve monsters that diminishes one by one. A Place for Zero: A Math Adventure by Angeline Sparagna Lopresti (Author), Phyllis Hornung (Author) Zero is lonely in Digitaria. Three Hat Day, A by Laura Geringer Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong