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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Increasing Students’ Engagement with Complex Texts
If you have been looking for informational texts for elementary students, the following free resource might help. FYI for Kids is a collection of magazine articles to increases “students’ engagement and proficiency with complex text.” The digital collection features a menu … Continue reading
Posted in Informational Text
Tagged 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, CCSS, Common Core, free, Hiebert, informational text, magazine, nonfiction
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This Blog takes to Twitter
Although the blog links to Twitter, Tweets were made only to update followers about posts on this site. This will change. Interested readers can follow coretaskproject to see content directly linked to Common Core and articles related to education. Follow here.
Posted in Core Task Project
Tagged blog, CCSS, Core Task Project, CTP, education, Tweets, Twitter
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Guide to Close Reading
Tennessee has created a Guide to Close Reading that answers the following questions: What is close reading? Why is close reading important? How is close reading done? The guide answers these questions with explicit links to the standards, assessment, and lifelong … Continue reading
Posted in Close Reading
Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core, Guide, Tennessee, university of nevada reno, Washoe, what is close reading
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Free Resources to Build Foundational Skills and Content Knowledge
Finding materials that are free, vetted, and well-matched to the Common Core is a popular request. One set of free resources, that build content knowledge (shift 1) while simultaneously addressing foundational skills are the Beginning Reads, from http://www.textproject.org. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Content Knowledge
Tagged books, CCSS, Common Core, Content Knowledge, fluency, Foundational Skills, free, informational text, phonemic awareness, phonics, printable, shift 1
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The “Bureaucratic Machine”
In a Ted Talk, Sugata Mitra who started the Hole-in-the-Wall project, reveals the impetus for the modern school—which began three hundred years ago. He describes how the British Empire needed a way to keep track of an enormous expanse of … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards
Tagged British, CCSS, Common Core, Europe, India, Sugata Mitra, Ted Talk
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SEL and Common Core Instruction
At Sustaining Momentum, CASEL’s Cross-Districts Learning Event in Nashville, Tennessee, educational leaders learned how Washoe is integrating Social Emotional Learning with Common Core instruction. The following PowerPoint was shared as well as Washoe’s SEL Standards Matrix and the Instructional Practice … Continue reading
Lesson Plan: Characterization
In the previous post, a video of Jon Corippo is tagged describing how educators can introduce and scaffold students to the successful understanding of conflict. Further into the video, Corippo describes a process helping students with characterization. Corippo has generously … Continue reading
Posted in 21st Century Learning
Tagged 21st Century Learning, CCSS, characterization, Jon Corippo, lesson plan
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How to Do Common Core: Mastering Conflict
Jon Corippo, Apple Distinguised Educator and Google Certified Teacher, describes how he teaches students to identify the five types of conflict within text. Begin watching Corippo’s explanation at minute 9:55 for full context or at minute 12:25 if you simply … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Development
Tagged Apple, CCSS, Common Core, conflict, Google, Jon Corippo, text, video
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Winter Professional Development Opportunities
Washoe County School District’s Curriculum & Instruction Department is offering a range of half-credit literacy inservice courses to support teachers with Common Core outcomes. The courses build backwards from the instructional shifts with classes on building content knowledge, shift 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core, inservice, instructional shifts, Kate Ferro, Kellie Oliver, Nevada, Professional Development, Washoe, WCSD
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Instructional Practice Guide & Accountable Talk Crosswalk
Bonnie Krupa, the Instructional Coach at Sparks Middle School, has created a crosswalk between the Core Actions within the Instructional Practice Guides (IPGs) and Accountable Talk Moves. The document assists in describing the explicit link between what the Common Core … Continue reading
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