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Category Archives: Complex Text
More Teacher Created CK Supplements Uploaded to 63000Resources
We continue to add teacher created Core Knowledge materials to www.63000resources.com. Over the winter break we posted 50 documents from Monique Scott, Heather Hanifen, Emily Poertner, and DeAnna Parker ranging from graphic organizers, to flipcharts to vocabulary cards. Since break we’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Complex Text
Tagged Core Knowledge, created, ELL, fliphcarts, teacher, vocabulary cards
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Instructional Move 1: Text at the Center of Instruction
Positioning text so that it is at the center of instruction is challenging, to say the least. Thus, as part of Core Task Project and Core Task implementation Project trainings, specific moves have been integrated to assist with this goal. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Classroom Management, Complex Text
Tagged CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, CTiP, CTP, signals, text talk
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Integrating Fluency and Syntax Instruction with Complex Text
In the video linked here, Dr. Timothy Shanahan describes the value of students developing fluency with “hard” text and its syntax. Although the video is short, it is includes a lot of good information including a short lesson demonstration of … Continue reading
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Tagged fluency, lesson demonstration, Shanahan, syntax, Text Complexity, video
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Complexity of What Students are Reading is Declining
NPR has posted a story describing what students are reading in out of school. Mellissa Block shares research from Renaissance Learning demonstrating that the complexity or difficulty of what students choose to read or are being assigned to read flattens … Continue reading
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Tagged Accelerated Learning, NPR, Renaissance Learning, Sticney
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Are Your Materials Aligned to CCSS?
A popular question is, “How do I know if the resources I am using are aligned to the Common Core?” One way to assist with finding this answer is to use the EQuIP Rubric for Lessons and Units (3rd through … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, Complex Text, Instructional Shifts
Tagged 3-5, 6-12, alignment, CCSS, Common Core, EQuIP, K-2, Rubric
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Close Reading—Six Months Later (Core Shifts Blast 13)
Core Shifts Blast 13 focuses on close reading and what the district and the Curriculum & Instruction Department have learned over the last six months. Kim Price, a Common Core Champion and 4th grade teacher at Echo Loder Elementary, shares … Continue reading
Complex Text: It’s Complicated
Laura Varlas shares a piece for Education Update on the importance of text complexity and strategies for accessing standard 10 (here). She underscores the importance of keeping instruction anchored in the text with these notes: Instructional time: Complex texts take time, … Continue reading
A Parents Guide to the Instructional Shifts
In a piece for his blog View out the windshield, Geoff Belleau outlines the “instructional shifts” and the implications for parents. He notes that there is a lot of advice for teachers but not enough for caregivers. Consequently, he takes … Continue reading
Classroom Discussions around Text
In the video linked here, Dr. David Pearson describes the value of strong classroom discussions around text. He posits that there are three elements of strong classroom discourse which include 1) Selecting texts worth discussing 2) Planning discussion questions and … Continue reading
Core Task Project 