This book provides practical strategies for how to implement core ideas for the classroom, school, and home communities. All students can be college and career ready scholars-reading, writing, speaking, listening, and using language in real world ways. This book answers all your questions about how to master core teaching and core learning. And it's all about what you, your students, and their families can do right now to become Core Ready.
Create programs that prepare students for college, careers, and the new and challenging assessments of the Common Core State Standards Written for all educators but with an emphasis on those at the secondary level, this important resource shows how to develop programs that truly prepare students for both the Common Core assessments and for college and career readiness. Based on multiple research studies conducted by Conley as well as experience he has gained from working with dozens of high schools that succeed with a wide range of students, the book provides specific strategies for teaching the CCSS in ways that improve readiness for college and careers for the full range of students. Draws from research-based models for creating programs for high school students that will ensure readiness for tests and for college and beyond Includes strategies and practices for teachers to help students develop postsecondary preparedness Is the third in a series of books on readiness written by David Conley, including College Knowledge and College and Career Ready Teachers can use this valuable resource to understand the "big picture" behind the Common Core State Standards, how to teach to them in ways that prepare students for new, challenging assessments being implemented over the next few years and, more importantly, how to help all students be ready for learning beyond high school.
Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. For more information on the Core Ready program, see Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards ISBN: 9780132907460. The Journey to Meaning: Comprehension and Critique is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Enter through this door to in the Core Ready program to bring comprehension, critique and composition of literary texts to the classroom. This book specifically encompasses the strategies and skills all students need to comprehend, critique, and compose literary texts as outlined in the Common Core State Standards. It guides readers through three rich and dynamic lesson sets: Grade 3: Mirrors and Windows: Exploring Characters in Reading and Writing Grade 4: Point of View: Drama and Prose Grade 5: What's the Point?: Theme in Short Text, Poetry, and Son[2] g The lesson sets use high quality texts from diverse genres-drama, prose, short text, poetry, and song-to develop critical thinking skills and help students dive deeply into the text to uncover character complexity, central themes, messages, and meaning. The use of quality literature and teacher modeling inspires them to compose their own writing Core Ready also supports all diverse learners. Special needs students are deeply valued and coached in the Core Ready classroom. The lessons and approach help them to reach and exceed standards. The attention to diverse learners is powerful and profound and will deeply inspire. Click here to take a virtual tour!
Schools nationwide are transitioning to the Common Core--our advice to you: Don't go it alone! Our new book, Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans: Ready-to-Use Resources, K-5, shows you that teaching the Common Core State Standards in the elementary grades doesn't have to be intimidating! This easy-to-use guide provides model lesson plans for teaching the standards in reading, writing, speaking/listening, and language. Get engaging lesson plans that are grade-appropriate, easy to implement and include ready-to-use reproducible handouts, assessments, resources, and ideas to help you modify the lesson for both struggling and advanced learners. Our Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans are designed to fit seamlessly into your K-5 curriculum. You get practical tips for revamping your existing lessons to meet the standards. Students learn how to read informational texts, write opinion-based essays, and improve their speaking and listening skills. Grammar mini-lessons and foundational skills mini-lessons will help you teach language conventions, phonics, fluency, and more! We take the guesswork out of Common Core lesson plans with this practical, easy-to-use guide. All lesson plans are grade-appropriate, and every lesson plan includes... Common Core State Standards covered in the lesson Overview of objectives and focus of the lesson Background knowledge required and time required A detailed, step-by-step agenda for the lesson, plus a materials list Differentiation ideas to adapt the lesson for different kinds of learners Assessment ideas, including rubrics and scoring guides A place for your notes: what worked; what can improve Bonus! We show you how to extend the lessons into longer units to suit your particular grade's curriculum, and even help you create more of your own lessons!
Most states have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as the basis for evaluating their students. This handbook will help teachers and administrators sort through the English Language Arts standards and focus on the key components of the CCSS. This is the second of a four-book series that started with Navigating Implementation of CCSS. The third handbook is Navigating Mathematics CCSS and the fourth is Navigating Assessment and Collaboration with the CCSS.
This professional resource equips K-12 students with the skills they need to be critical readers in the 21st century. Today's reader is reading across multiple genres, on phones and tablets, with text in hand, and also online, and this helpful book provides educators with techniques on how to teach students to read on every platform and in every genre, to struggle with text, and to break through to new ideas when reading text. It focuses on the habits that students must form in order to gain the confidence to access all texts across all platforms. Each chapter is devoted to developing the five habits for successful reading: reading closely, widely, critically, deeply, and purposefully. Grounded in the latest research, the easy-to-implement strategies and instructional methods will help students cultivate strong reading skills in the 21st century classroom.
Standards-Based Connections Reading for grade 2 offers focused skill practice in reading comprehension. A skill assessment will point out students' learning gaps. This allows teachers to choose appropriate student pages for individualized remediation. The student pages emphasize five important reading comprehension skills: summarizing, inferring, story elements, comparing and contrasting, and cause and effect. The book includes high-interest fiction and nonfiction, with texts about moving day, volcanoes, Laura Ingalls Wilder, planets, poetry, and more. --Each 96-page book in the Standards-Based Connections Reading series includes a skill assessment, an assessment analysis, targeted practice pages, and an answer key, making this series an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. The skill assessments and assessment analyses help teachers determine individualized instructional needs. And, the focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning!
Core Ready is a dynamic series of books providing educators with critical tools for navigating the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. In the pages of these books, readers see how to take complex concepts related to the standards and turn them into practical, specific, everyday lessons. For more information on the Core Ready program, see Be Core Ready: Powerful, Effective Steps to Implementing and Achieving the Common Core State Standards ISBN: 9780132907460. The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument is one of the 4 Doors to Core Ready for the standards-serious student and teacher. It is a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide for helping all students become Core Ready. Using the books in The Core Ready Program, readers see how to turn the standards into meaningful instruction and learning. Enter through this door in the Core Ready program to understand how to teach students to use evidence to understand and formulate opinions about what they read, and to craft powerful arguments by writing and sharing ideas. The book guides teachers and students through three rich and dynamic lesson sets: Grade 3: Stand Up for Series: Collaborative Author Study Grade 4: Poetry Wars: Interpreting and Debating Meaning in Poems Grade 5: Making the Case: Reading and Writing Editorial The Power to Persuade teaches students to articulate their own viewpoints and to defend these opinions with clear, concise, cohesive arguments in ways that are not only intuitive, but also informed. Each lesson set emphasizes citing specific evidence to support one's ideas and refute opposing opinions. Effective listening, conversation, and oral speaking behaviors when discussing, collaborating or debating with peers, are also highlighted. Click here to take a virtual tour!
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. The Power to Persuade: Opinion and Argument is a one-stop resource for turning the Common Core State Standards into meaningful instruction and learning—a rich day-to-day, step-by-step guide on how to implement the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and how to ensure that all students are core ready. Included are rich, dynamic lesson sets, each with complete step by step reading and writing lessons, as well as highlights for speaking, listening, and language use. The focus is on the recognition and development of opinion and argument through reading, writing, listening, and speaking. It is a book for teachers, administrative leaders, literacy coaches, ELL specialists, special educators, media specialists, reading teachers, content area teachers, and professors and graduate students. Visit http://pdtoolkit.pearson.com to purchase access to the PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series. The PDToolkit access does not come with the print book. PDToolkit for Pam Allyn's Core Ready Series is a supplemental online subscription-based resource that provides the tools that educators need to implement the Common Core Standards effectively, fluidly, and successfully. The PDToolkit, together with the texts, provides the tools you need to ensure a standards-aligned year of joyful, effective, research-based literacy curriculum.
