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1 online resource (282 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Accessing the CD Contents; Contents; CD Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Preface: Why I Felt Compelled to Write This Book; Introduction: What Problems This Book Attempts to Solve, and How; Part 1 Basic Ingredients; Chapter 1 Strategic Planning to Strengthen Curriculum; Strategic Action Planning: How to Make Things Happen; How to Keep Track of the Standards; Curriculum Resources; Endnotes; Chapter 2 Schoolwide Approaches to Reading; What to Consider When Selecting Texts for K-12; Human Resources: The Varsity Reading Coach |
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Strategic Reading and Writing ClassStrategic Reading and Writing: Curriculum Overview Map; How to Get Two Thousand Students to Fall in Love with Reading; Endnotes; Chapter 3 Bridging the Gap When Students Are Not on Grade Level; What You Need to Know about Text Complexity; A Strategic Approach; How to Engage and Support Parents; Low-Hanging Fruit: Classroom Discourse and Vocabulary Instruction; Why and How to Maximize Cross-Content Connections; A Word to School Leaders; Endnotes; Chapter 4 Unit Planning; The Big Picture; Annotated Curriculum Overview Map; Sample Curriculum Overview Map |
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Annotated Unit Plan TemplateSample ELA Unit Plan; From-Units-to-Lessons Logistics; Endnotes; Chapter 5 Lesson Planning; Why Lesson Planning Habits Matter; Annotated Lesson Plan Template; How to Avoid Kidnapping Your Students: Rigorous, Purposeful, Measurable (RPM) Objectives; Objectives and Lesson Planning with the Metaphor of Your Choice; Designing Effective Do Nows; Using Do Nows to Strengthen the Four Key Critical Reading Skills; Some Truths about ""I Do, We Do, You Do''; Exit Tickets; A Few Thoughts on Homework; Endnotes; Part 2 Appetizers; Chapter 6 First Bites of the Common Core |
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Which Standards Should We Start With?Tasty Morsels for Staff Training; Outlining Your First Unit; Endnotes; Chapter 7 Close Reading Strategies; Quadrant Analysis as a Way to Boost Comprehension; Annotation Revisited: Why and How We Read; The Overlooked Skill of Skimming; What Dependent Really Means; The Most Important Skill You Could Possibly Teach; More Bites at Inquiry; Endnotes; Part 3 Entrées; Chapter 8 Argument versus Evidence: The Big Picture and Six Essential Steps; Argument versus Evidence: Step 1; Argument versus Evidence: Step 2; Argument versus Evidence: Step 3 |
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Argument versus Evidence: Step 4Argument versus Evidence: Step 5; Argument versus Evidence: Step 6; Endnotes; Chapter 9 Quote Sandwiches; The Recipe for Quote Sandwiches; Examples and Non-Examples of Quote Sandwiches; Drawing a Picture of ""Context''; Endnote; Chapter 10 Open-Ended Response Writing; Common Problems and Solutions; What Is ""RACER''?; A Handy Open-Ended Response Writing Rubric; Endnotes; Chapter 11 Document-Based Questions for One and All; Topic-Driven Assignments versus Question-Driven Assignments; How and Why to Take the Document-Based Question Approach; Endnote |
| Summary |
Tools and Insights for Meeting and Exceeding the Common Core Standards Literacy and the Common Core offers K-12 teachers clear guidance on how to design units, lessons, and objectives to meet the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts; it's filled with practical strategies that teachers can use immediately to target key standards; and it describes how to analyze the standards to support instructional planning and curriculum development. This book aims to make life a little easier for everyone-teachers, school leaders, parents, and students-as we all strive to |
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Chapter 12 How to Translate the ELA Common Core Standards for Actual Use |
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Language arts -- Curricula -- United States
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Language arts -- Standards -- United States
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Reading -- United States
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Language arts -- Curricula
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Language arts -- Standards
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Reading
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118839096 |
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1118839099 |
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