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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

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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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