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Students work in pairs and groups as they complete fishbone maps that highlight main ideas and relevant details from a cause-effect text and then write summaries of content area texts. 
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Create poems using words and phrases selected from primary source texts to retell the historical content. Includes text and images on topics as diverse as Helen Keller, Walt Whitman, women’s suffrage, and the Harlem Renaissance.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Great lesson using primary sources to create found poetry. The Library of Congress units now include a dropdown menu to find the CCSS each lesson aligns with.
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Unlimited access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core–aligned quizzes, with new articles every day.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Excellent resource for articles for your classroom! Students can adjust their reading level by lexile, which allows you to assign one article, differentiate instruction, and not stigmatize a student with a lower reading level! You can create a class binder, give students an access code, and track the quizzes they take. Or assign a certain number of articles and let students choose their own articles on topics that interest them. I think this is the best resource for informational text I've seen in 2013!
Amy Stoeckly's curator insight,
October 21, 2013 3:22 PM
AMAZING website-You have to check this one out! Something for everyone here: Science, current events on all kinds of topics, social studies, culture and more! What's more to love: you can adjust the lexile (reading level) , some come with worksheets or assessments, and you can save these in your teacher binder. With this FREE account you can email these articles out to students to read as homework and have them come to class ready to discuss.
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Common core standards and the school library media center #ccss #commoncore #schools #school #library #librarians #education #edu #educhat #edchat (Common core standards and the school library media center #ccss #commoncore #schools #school #librar... Via Darren Burris, Patricia Sarles
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Good summary of how we can support classroom curriculum.
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Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Around Halloween, I would play the Mercury Theatre broadcast of War of the Worlds. Students were enthralled. See the Mercury Theatre site for more radio play broadcasts to use with this lesson: http://www.mercurytheatre.info/
Amy Youngblood's curator insight,
July 9, 2013 9:28 PM
Additionally, ReadWriteThink has other great resources.
Emily DiGiulio's curator insight,
July 12, 2013 9:34 AM
Readers Theater podcasts with ReadWriteThink
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Resources for 6-8 grade units with CC alignment. Great stuff here, created by teachers! Via Darren Burris
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Resources created by teachers for middle school CC-aligned units.
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*ISTE Workshop: Transitioning to the Common Core with Google Apps - Join me! In my previous post "Common Core: What is a 'complex text' anyway?
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
The technology component is a critical part of the Common Core as well. I'm glad to see how seamlessly it's integrated into these lessons.
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Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Applied math! If I'd been taught this way, I would have realized much earlier that I wasn't a math dunce. It's cross-curricular lessons like this that make me excited about the Common Core.
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This lesson uses a letter-writing activity based on Tim O’Brien’s story “The Things They Carried” to build empathy as students examine the weight they symbolically carry in their own lives.
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Students write new endings for the science fiction novel, Z for Zachariah by exploring alternative plotlines created by making different moral choices than those made by the main character.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This would be a great lesson for smaller lit circles. (SEMS teachers, we have 6 copies of this book!)
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Struggling to survive is one of the many themes explored in A Girl Named Disaster. As students read, they look for connections between themselves and the main character, Nhamo.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Comprehensive lesson plan for a fascinating book!
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The following is a guest post by Catlin Tucker, one of SimpleK12's presenters. Click here to watch Catlin's Webinars inside the Teacher Learning Community. Common Core Standards: Teaching Argument Writing.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Catlin outlines a great approach to argument writing that you can easily implement in your classroom.
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Teaching students to use textual evidence is a key component of the Common Core. Learn how to teach students to cite textual evidence, engage in collaborative discussions and draw evidence from literary text in preparation for writing. Via Darren Burris
David Kevin Myers's curator insight,
March 10, 2013 12:46 PM
This link will take you to a 6 minute video that discusses the Common Core focus of citing textual evidence. It shows excerpts of an actual lesson and offers teacher insight into its use.
David Kevin Myers's curator insight,
March 10, 2013 12:48 PM
This link will take you to a 6 minute video that discusses the Common Core focus of citing textual evidence. It shows excerpts of an actual lesson and offers teacher insight into its use. |
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Here are my thoughts on an icebreaker that seeks to immediately begin building an argumentative, collaborative culture in my classroom.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Great start to the year!
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This free curriculum for grades 6-12 provides complete ELA units and tools for teaching close reading, evidence-based claims and critical thinking. The tools can easily be adapted for other units!
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The Common Core places new emphasis on the importance of reading and analyzing complex nonfiction and informational texts. This has many English teachers feeling like their literature is under attack, but students fall in love with stories. Via Simon Vasey
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Another example of how to incorporate informational text without spending money on "Common Core-aligned" whatnot from publishers!
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The first step in teaching your junior high / middle school students to paraphrase text is to learn what is plagiarism and what is paraphrasing. Via TeachingEnglish, Jim Lerman
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
The highlighters make the point!
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Build skills in reading, analyzing, listening. Free resources and videos for Common Core close reading / discussion of 15 engaging questions. (RT @edteck: New post on how to teach thoughtful deliberation.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
While the lessons on this site are geared to high school, they can easily be adapted for 8th grade, as they are aligned with US history topics.
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Watch teachers discuss strategies for CCSS ELA implementation.
Emily DiGiulio's curator insight,
July 12, 2013 9:41 AM
Common Core resource with video examples and discussions.
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From National Geographic Children's Books, find a teacher guide for using the nonfiction book, The Skull in the Rock, in middle school English language arts classrooms.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Useful teacher's guide for a great example of informational text that students will enjoy reading!
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"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
Mary Reilley Clark's curator insight,
May 15, 2013 2:49 PM
Wordle or another word cloud creation tool would be a good start to any book discussion.
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Lights! Camera! Action! In this lesson, students view a scene with no dialogue from E.T., write a script for that scene, and perform a dramatic reading while the scene plays. (Lights! Camera! Action!
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
This can easily be adapted for upper grades, addressing standards for speaking and listening, for writing narratives, and for using technology to produce and publish writing.
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3 Reasons that the CCSS Should Make Content Teachers Rejoice » Teaching the Core | Teaching the Core http://t.co/TGgEpEspj2
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I take issue with Dave's statement that he's not a CCSS expert. His blog provides excellent examples of how to implement standards, as well as thoughtful analysis of the standards, all with enough humor to make your reading enjoyable.
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Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Lots of digital literacy lessons here. EDSITEment is working on the broken links as of 3/6/13.
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In this lesson plan, we provide five ways you can pair the intrigue of espionage with Times reporting to get students to think critically, ask questions, and see a different side of history and current events.
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The fishbone template might be especially useful in SAI classes.