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Category Archives: Text-Dependent Questions
Educators Train on Updated CTP
Washoe educators participated in a slightly modified version of the Core Task Project. The handouts and materials have been updated including a new video link as well as a new exemplar. You can download all of the content used during … Continue reading
Washoe Trains on the Primary Core Task Project
Kindergarten Coordinator Kacey Edgington moved K-2 teachers through a primary version of the Core Task Project. You can access all of the content from the presentation by clicking on the links below. Primary Core Task Project PowerPoint 6=3 Shift Display … Continue reading
What is your District Doing to Get Teachers Ready?
In a series of videos posted on Vimeo and titled, “Finding Common Ground: What is your District Doing to Get Teachers Ready?” the National Education Writers Association and the Latino Children Project invited California district superintendents to describe key features … Continue reading
Washoe Teachers Pilot CTP-ESL
On Monday, the ESL & World Language Department partnered with the Curriculum & Instruction Department on the Core Task Project-ESL. The hope of this endeavor is to identity appropriate scaffolds for ELs, when employing the close reading strategy, and use … Continue reading
Posted in CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, Instructional Shifts, text complexity, Text-Dependent Questions
Tagged Close Reading Exemplars, Close Reading Strategy, Core Task Project-ESL, CTP, CTP-ESL, David Coleman, English Learners, ESL, Karen Perisho, Pete Cobin Dawn Adams
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Jessie Beck and Bud Beasley Train on the BAP
Today, Jessie Beck and Bud Beasley Elementary trained on the Basal Alignment Project. Listed below are the resources used for the training as well as other materials referenced during the session. Training Materials BAP Training PowerPoint updated Pictorial Guide to accessing … Continue reading
Analyzing Texts: “Text Talk Time”
Teaching Channel recently posted this video in which the teacher facilitates a conversation around a careful analysis of a text. In “Text Talk Time,” children drive the discussion and answer their peers’ questions. Ms. Brewer, the teacher in the video, … Continue reading
Washoe Starts the 6th Grade Basal Alignment Project
Under the stewardship of staff from Curriculum & Instruction and the Striving Readers Grant, Washoe County has started a 6th grade version of the Basal Alignment Project. The process is just beginning with a completion date of December 2012 having … Continue reading
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
Quick Guide to the Common Core
Tom Vander Ark, vice president of product development at Curriculum Associates, has created a “quick guide” to the Common Core. It serves as a succinct overview of what we need to do as we implement the CCSS.
Liben Presentation to WCSD Educators Now Available
David Liben, Meredith Liben, and Rachelle Etienne, of Student Achievement Partners, were in Reno on August 20th sharing strategies to effectively implement the Common Core. They focused on text complexity, text-dependent questions, syntax, academic vocabulary, writing to sources and the … Continue reading
Posted in Academic Vocabulary, CCSS, Common Core State Standards, Core Task Project, Instructional Shifts, Student Achievement Partners, text complexity, Text-Dependent Questions
Tagged CCSS, Common Core, David Liben, instructional shifts, Meredith Liben, Rachelle Etienne, SAP, Student Achievement Partners, Text Complexity, text-dependent questions, WCSD
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Core Task Project 