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Empower students with a critical skill at the heart of the CCSS: Reading complex texts closely to analyze textual details and deepen understanding Via Darren Burris 
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Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
These lessons give full materials needed, including the readings, questions, activities,and formative assessments. Use these sample lessons as a template to create your own lessons using different texts.
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For those who wanted more specifics, dig in! I just skimmed the ELA Text Selection Powerpoint, and it certainly gives you enough information to choose texts for your classes.
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Laura Thomas argues that progressive educators have become so accustomed to the burden of instructional mandates that they may be missing opportunities presented by the common standards.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
"I think that, if we're as smart and committed as we say we are, we can use the common core as a stepping stone to better outcomes for all of our kids." Sums up how I view the Common Core!
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In honor of the new film, we update an old post with new resources and teaching ideas. Do your students still relate to Gatsby and see the “flawed world” of America today in Fitzgerald’s portrait of the Jazz Age?
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Here's a great title to use with CCSS! US History, anyone?
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Welcome to the Verizon Thinkfinity Community! This page is a great place to start: ask questions, join in a discussion, search groups, and make friends.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
If you've been paying attention, you know the answer is NO!
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How do we incorporate the Common Core's complex texts in a way that students will read, engage with, debate, and discuss? Join us as we explore non-freaked implementation.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Read this, follow all the links, come back and read it again.
Mark Gillingham's curator insight,
April 29, 2013 4:12 PM
This is a remarkable self-analysis of teaching with novels in grade 9. I've very impressed with the attention to students, text, and accountability. The motivational speeches are good too.
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Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Great ideas for using primary sources!
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Susan Oxnevad shares this great list of CCSS-aligned playlists of resources. I love the idea of using these for differentiated learning!
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Carla Killough McClafferty shares an easy way to use primary source documents and nonfiction from your library! I love lessons that show ways to meet the CCSS without telling you to buy anything new.
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Students read and analyze technology reviews to establish the characteristics of the genre. They then compose their own reviews on a technology of their choice.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
this could easily be adapted for middle school.
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Question-Asking: Intentional and Powerful When teachers carefully select and craft their questions, students respond with thinking, wondering, reflection and overall cognition – in other words, the...
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
"In critical Literacy students disrupt the commonplace; they question text, identify bias, evaluate and respond to information from multiple viewpoints." The phrase "disrupt the commonplace" will frame my work with students from now on!
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CCSS activities that bring literacy lessons into the science lab.
Teachers are expected to incorporate literacy instruction throughout the curriculum, and students are expected to read (and understand) as much informational text as they do fiction.
"it’s really about teaching kids the skills to become good scientists, which includes being good readers.” Scientists, she says, have to be able to read articles and journals—review the research—before they can build experiments or projects of their own." Via Mel Riddile
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
For the mnenomic OPTIC alone, this article is worth reading! Share with science teachers looking to incorporate CCSS into their curriculum.
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Links to CC-related material from Booklist and its related sites, blogs, and newsletters.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Useful information, especially for library staff analyzing their existing collection for books for teachers to use with CCSS lessons.
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Lauren Davis has been Senior Editor at Eye On Education since May 2011. She is the author of the popular white paper "5 Things Every Teacher Should be...
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Podcast from Lauren Davis that gives examples on incorporating nonfiction into your ELA classroom.
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"Savvy schools will know that Common Core standards are guidelines. Struggling schools will interpret Common Core standards as straight jackets."
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Vicki highlights a point that some schools and districts aren't getting. Share this with those who are afraid of the straitjacket!
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Great strategy for grading students with the Common Core. Here is a quick tip to help teachers, students and parents assess how students are learning with the new Common Core Standards.
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Quick strategy that helps the student focus on the areas they need to improve in.
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Petrosky explains the importance of explicitly teaching students to use a repertoire of academic language for introducing, citing, and explain text references in their essays for the ELA/literacy CCSS.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
The examples in the section The Moves that Make the References are useful ways of teaching students about writing argument and informational/explanatory texts.
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This week our classroom collaborators decided to experiment with learning Web design via a tool that makes it easy. For each prompt, their students did an extension activity involving Web design, examples of which we’ve linked to.
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Here, Dave Stuart and Erica Beaton share their approach to close reading (R.CCR.1) and a non-freaked out approach to the Common Core State Standards.
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Close reading of this blog post should be required of all ELA teachers!
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A presentation connecting digital writing with standards-based curriculum (DS and the CCSS Prezi: http://t.co/rldODPamEC #sigds) Via Darren Burris, Deb Gardner
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Solid information on why digital story telling is a great tool that aligns with several anchor standards. (But please, let's move past elementary school fonts when presenting to our peers! My eyes can't take it.)
Rita Godwin's curator insight,
April 24, 2013 7:17 AM
Good resources on how to tie Common Core with digital storytelling. Another reason why we are useful!
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Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
Be sure to click the blog tab to read Dr. Dea's insightful posts about the Common Core. Many of the posts have lessons that she walks through to give a complete understanding of a specific standard.
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Good introduction for teachers new to the Common Core (are there any out there?)
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"Many people still hold to the belief that nonfiction writing is “just the facts,” often synonymous with formulaic, dull writing. Nothing could be further from the truth! For years, authors of all genres have honed their writing by reading literary nonfiction by the likes of David McCullough, Anna Quindlen, John McPhee, Susan Orlean, and so many others." Via Mel Riddile
Matt Weld's curator insight,
April 14, 2013 8:30 PM
Great article that talks about how authors of nonfiction use the same skills in their craft that we are asking of students. Links at the end to other good, related articles, too. 
Gail Donahue's curator insight,
April 17, 2013 11:11 AM
This could be excellent background reading for content area teachers when trying to implement writing across the curriculum.
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Seems like everywhere I go, educators are asking "What is this 'close reading' thing and how do I teach it?" The buzz on close reading has become so great that many think close reading is simply an... Via Mel Riddile
Mary Reilley Clark's insight:
I love this point from Dr. Dea: Therefore, I suggest two types of close reading for such [scrupulously written] documents: one that values the rhetorical or literary nature of the text–art and a second that explores the relationship of the art within the frame–the disciplinary context.
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Reading units grades 6-12 with great non-fiction texts!