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Category Archives: Core Shifts Blast
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
Core Shifts Blast 12: Writing to Sources
The Core Shifts Blast is back with strategies, ideas, notes, and materials to match instruction to Shift 5—Writing to Sources. If you missed the writing training last month, you will find an overview of the sessions as well as links … Continue reading
Core Shift Blast 9: English Learners and the Common Core
A new Core Shift Blast is available and the focus is on strategies to allow English Learners access to the Common Core. This includes a Position Statement from the ELL Department on the role of close reading and its value … Continue reading
The Last Core Shift Blast of 2012
The final Core Shift Blast of 2012 has been shared. This week the focus is on work currently in place to support the move to the CCSS as well as a list of future offerings. If you are not a … Continue reading
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Core Shift Blast 7: Skills and Strategies
Want to know more about the role of skills and strategies in the Common Core? Torrey Palmer shares her answer and the thoughts of a number of academics in Core Shift Blast 7. You can also read how 3rd grade … Continue reading
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Text Complexity and Emergent and Early Readers
Are you curious about increasing rigor and text complexity for emergent and early readers? Core Shift Blast 6 offers some help in this area and includes field notes from Sun Valley kindergarten teacher Laurie Johns. Click here to read the … Continue reading
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Core Shift Blast 4: Close Reading
The Core Shift Blast for October 10th was shared today. You can access it here. You can review previous blasts by clicking here. The focus this week is on the Close Reading Strategy and includes insights into using this instructional … Continue reading
Core Shift Blast September 25, 2012
The Core Shift Blast was sent today and it includes an excellent overview of the Basal Alignment Project and the Core Task Project. Corrin Cathcart, a fifth grade teacher at Brown Elementary, describes her experience with the BAP rewrites and … Continue reading
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