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English Language Arts Common Core
Key Ideas and Details
Craft and Structure
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
ELA Anchor Standards
College and Career Anchor Standards for Reading
Students that are college and career ready will……
Demonstrate independence.Build strong content knowledge.Respond to the varying demands of
audience, task, purpose, and discipline.Comprehend as well as critique.Value evidence.Use technology and digital media
strategically and capably.Come to understand other perspectives
and cultures.
Six Shifts in the Standards1. PK-5, Balancing Informational Text and
Literary Text2. 6-12, Building Knowledge in the
Disciplines3. Staircase of Complexity4. Text-Based Answers5. Writing from Sources6. Academic Vocabulary
Let’s Take a Closer Look at Each Shift
Write each shift in your own words.
How will instruction change?
What challenges will we face as we make the shift?
Shift 4: Text-Based Answers
What does it say?
What the experts say?
http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-in-ela-literacy-shift-4-text-based-answers/
A Quilt of a CountryBy Anna Quindlen
TAKE A LOOK
Why does Quindlen think that America is an improbable idea?
A Quilt of a CountryBy Anna Quindlen
What message does Quindlen convey about America?
This question requires the reader to return to the opening sentence, refocusing attention on the text?
This type of question gets them to consider the passage as a whole and in a more thematic light. It requires the student to make inferences.
Holler Out
What are the questions worth asking?
How does text-based questioning compare to literal “in the text” questioning?
Thinking Device
How will instruction change?What challenges will we face as we
make the shift? If needed add words to your Shift 4
definition
Shift 6: Academic Vocabulary
comparesynthesize
ideal
What the experts say?
http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-in-ela-literacy-shift-6-academic-vocabulary/
Choosing Words to TeachTier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
The most basic wordsExamples: clock, baby happy
High-frequency words for mature language usersExamples: coincidence, industrious
Low-frequency wordsExamples: isotope, peninsula
Criteria for Identifying- Tier 2 Words
Instructional potential
Conceptual Understanding
Importance and Utility
CC ELA Shift 6: Academic VocabularyConsider the following quote:
It’s important to be strategic about the kind of vocabulary that we’re developing. Teach fewer words, but teach the webs around them. It goes back to this issue about careful planning … and strategic thinking about how to support students’ skill development.
First Steps
Thinking Device- Holler OutHow will instruction change?
What challenges will we face as we make this shift?
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