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Category Archives: Content Knowledge
Materials used in Shift 1 Presentation September 12, 2012
A number of Washoe educators gathered to explore Shift 1—the importance of building general content knowledge. The discussions focused on a presentation by Robert Pondiscio, Vice President of Core Knowledge (Part I & Part II), and a review of a … Continue reading
NASSP and their Suggestions for CCSS Implementation
The Alliance for Excellent Education recently taped a webinar describing what has to be done in order to implement the Common Core State Standards well. Dr. Mel Riddile, Associate Director for High School Services, National Association of Secondary School Principals … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core State Standards, Complex Text, Content Knowledge, Instructional Shifts, Text-Dependent Questions, Writing to Sources
Tagged academic vocabulary, CCSS, Common Core, instructional shifts, Mel Riddile, NASSP, Text Complexity, text-dependent questions, writing to sources
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“Keep it or Junk it”
Teaching Channel has posted a video that employs principles of the Close Reading Strategy. In the lesson, 5th grade teacher Jennifer Brouhard has her students identifying key concepts in the text with specific attention to vocabulary. You can access the … Continue reading
5 Myths about the Common Core
Robert Rothman, writing for the Harvard Education Letter, describes five myths about the Common Core. He notes: Perhaps the main idea of the Common Core ELA standards is the notion that students should read increasingly complex texts in order to be prepared … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Common Core, Complex Text, myths
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Opportunities for English Learners in the CCSS ELA
In a paper, as part of Stanford University’s Understand Language series (here) authors George C. Bunch, Amanda Kibler, and Susan Pimentel describe, for those “collectively responsible for education of English Learners,” what has to be done so the CCSS are … Continue reading
Core Task Project 