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The Common Core standards for English Language Arts call for a significant dose of non-fiction reading, in support of reading comprehension, a finding I’ve discussed before . That requirement has... 
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Reading Std #9 for grades 6-8:Compare/contrast texts on similar themes or topics. Have students compare the scope, structure and visual components of this book with the equally excellent but longer and broader Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin.
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We all have heard that the Common Core ELA Standards specify more non fiction reading skills than state ELA standards appeared to do. In a workshop I attended on Implementing the Common Core, the presenter stated that approximately 70% of...
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In this post we simplify the Common Core's suggested twelve step process for determining the complexity of a text.
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The Common Core sets in motion many new trends, including a focus on text complexity.
Measuring Text Complexity Appendix A suggests that we measure text complexity by considering: PART 1: QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES PART 2: QUALITATIVE VARIABLES PART 3: INDIVIDUAL READER/ TASK VARIABLES Takeaways
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The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) describes habits of mind as “knowledge, skills, and dispositions that operate in tandem with the academic content in the standards … and offer a portrait of students who, upon graduation, are prepared for college, career, and citizenship.”
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I teach English, and I am feeling a little defensive lately. In the past week, I have had two separate “literature-threatening” incidents. The first came from a reader to an opinion pie...
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The adoption of the new standards is creating an urgent demand for a new generation of instructional materials and comprehensive support programs for students and teachers.
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Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ASCD Launches FREE EduCore™ Tool for educators implementing the Common Core State Standards in both mathematics and literacy. The EduCore tool is a repository of evidence-based strategies, videos, and supporting documents that help educators transition to the Common Core standards
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September 17, 2012 11:49 AM
This website has resources for middle and high school level ELA an Math.
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The PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools allows educators and policy makers to track public opinion about the nation’s public schools. The public is divided:
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City Journal, Summer 2012 By Sol Stern New national standards prod schools to return to content-based education. For the first time in almost half a century, education administrators and policymakers around the country are seriously discussing the role of a content-based curriculum in raising student achievement.
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Experts suggest test-makers will be challenged to write items that will measure the depth of knowledge expected.
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The English Language Arts (ELA) standards are divided into broad categories: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language. The first standard under Comprehension and Collaboration requires that students learn how to initiate and participate in a range of collaborative discussions including one–on-one, group, or teacher-led on grade-appropriate topics. “The Internet has accelerated the speed at which connections between speaking, listening, reading, and writing can be made, requiring that students be ready to use these modalities nearly simultaneously. Technology itself is changing quickly, creating a new urgency for students to be adaptable in response to change.” –Common Core State Standards
's comment September 2, 2012 1:45 PM
Great website. Thank you. I have referenced you on my own--synthesizingeducation.net, where I will be posting biweekly exemplars for the Common Core.
James Mulhern
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Vocabulary is addressed not only in the reading anchors, but also in the language anchor standards.
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In this post, we look at our recommendations for helping children gain access to complex text in light of the different instructional contexts for making text available to students.
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In this post, we enumerate the twelve step process suggested by the Common Core for determining the text complexity of a book and wonder if this process is just a bit too lengthy to be practical.
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Burkins & Yaris Poetry presents unique challenges to educators trying to measure complexity. In this post, we look at this unique situation and discuss the best way to measure the complexity of poems.
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The second Common Core Standard of Mathematical Practice reads as follows: “Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize — to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents — and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.”
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For years, students with poor English language skills have lagged behind their fluent classmates. Now an outer suburb of San Francisco is one of many school districts nationwide overhauling their approach to try to close the language gap.
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Learn more about the Common Core assessment samples released earlier this week. PARCC presents and discusses three innovative ELA item types:
PARCC presents and discusses the following innovations in item formats and assessment design:
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This site presents the Model Content Frameworks in an interactive way, creating a more accessible tool for users.
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PDK/Gallup Poll on the Public’s Attitudes Toward Public Schools | PDK International Common core standards will:
High-quality standards won’t hurt our chances of closing achievement gaps.
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In this post we look at the range of lexile levels recommended by the new appendage to Appendix A which provides supplemental research about text complexity.
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