Teaming up to Support Common Core

Teaming up to Support Common Core

http://www.corestandards.org

Nonfiction Monday:

http://nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com

The Nonfiction Detectives:

http://www.nonfictiondetectives.com

Great Common Core Nonfiction for YAs:

http://www.greatcommoncorenonfiction.com

INK Nonfiction Minute

http://www.nonfictionminute.com

The Classroom Bookshelf:

http://classroombookshelf.blogspot.com

The Standards

Anchor Standards:

Reading, Writing, Speaking & Listening and Language

Anchor Standards for Reading:

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure

Integration of Knowledge & Ideas

Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity

Details by Grades for Literature & Nonfiction

http://www.corestandards.org

The Beginning

Who: National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices & the Council of Chief State School Officers

Why: Standardization so that “all students, regardless of where they live, are graduating high school prepared for college career and life”

When: Adopted by NJ June 2010

http://www.state.nj.us/education/ccss

Key Shifts in ELA

1. Regular practice with complex texts and their academic language

2. Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence from texts, both literary and informational

3. Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction

http://www.slj.com/2012/12/opinion/on-common-core/the-public-library-connection-the-new-standards-require-that-public-and-school-librarians-pull-together-on-common-core/#_

How to Speak Common Core

Nonfiction Blogs

Fiction paired with Non-Fiction

The Uncommon Core:

http://nonfictionandthecommoncore.blogspot.com

Presenters:

Arlen Kimmelman pseudandry@gmail.com

Ellen Pozzi pozzie@wpunj.edu

Moderator:

Jennifer Schureman jschureman@gcls.org

Text Complexity

Fixing the Misconception

https://www.lexile.com/findabook/

http://www.achievethecore.org/text-complexity

Distribution of Literary and Informational Passages by Grade in the 2009 NAEP Reading Framework

Grade Literary Information

4 50% 50%

8 45% 55%

12 30% 70%*

*70% across ALL subjects, not just LAL

http://naomibates.blogspot.com/2014/04/move-over-fiction-non-fiction-and.html

Bibliography on Google Docs: Teaming Up to Support Common Core

critical content

complex texts

...students systematically acquire knowledge in literature and other disciplines through reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

exemplar texts are not the same as required reading

...ensure students are being prepared to read, write, and research across the curriculum

http://prezi.com/user/nc8-okgsw-ol

http://www.scoop.it/t/oelma-common-core-better-than-exemplar-texts

content coverage

using exemplar texts and

text complexity in your library

award winning titles

topic displays

navigating the shelves

connections to non-fiction audiobooks

highlighting primary sources

lists of matching fiction & non-fiction

story times & book clubs

https://infopeople.org/sites/default/files/webinar/2013/12-03-2013/Common_Core_Resources.ppt

more resources for fiction/non-fiction matching texts

not free \/ free >

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=core%20matters%20text%20complexity.pptx&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC8QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.njcore.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2FCore%2520Matters%2520Text%2520Complexity_1.pptx&ei=kNdwU-mJF6bLsQTRlIDQDg&usg=AFQjCNHf45rSkDD6rLMXm6VucLd2Vou8Jw&sig2=oTjapsDC6WFffoIz5vjSPA&bvm=bv.66111022,d.cWc

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_A.pdf