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Tag Archives: Common Core State Standards
What is ‘Complex’ Text?
What is complex text? Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris use Appendix A, of the Common Core, to answer this question and provide some context for why text complexity is an important feature of the CCSS. The answer can be found … Continue reading
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
“Instructional Shifts for Making ‘Fewer, Clearer, and Higher’ A Reality”
Susan Gendron from the International Center for Leadership in Education has posted the following PowerPoint describing the “instructional shifts” and some context, useful links, and helpful qualifiers for these moves. Gendron currently serves as the Policy Coordinator for the SMARTER … Continue reading
Communications Leaders Meeting September 18, 2012
Washoe’s K-6 Communication Leaders attended their first ELA meeting and learned what efforts are being supported to align literacy instruction to the Common Core State Standards. Areas of emphasis included the Basal Alignment Project, the Core Task Project, and the Close … Continue reading
School Librarians Work with the CCSS, September 17 2012
Librarians, at the WCSD Library Services K-12 Meeting, reviewed the “instructional shifts,” the importance of text complexity, and brainstormed non-fiction titles worth reading. Below are the resources used in the presentation. ELA ‘Shifts’ and the School Librarian PowerPoint Notetaker for … Continue reading
Assistant Principals and Deans A&S Meeting, September 17 2012
District Assistant Principals and Deans gathered Monday to learn more about specific initiatives. Included was a short K-6 session on “Aligning “Literacy Instruction to the CCSS.” A&S Aligning Literacy Instruction PowerPoint Aligning Literacy Instruction to the CCSS Handout Messaging and … Continue reading
Parenting Magazine and the CCSS
Parenting Magazine weighs in on how caregivers can bring the Common Core into the home with these tips. Read books to children that are ‘worth reading’ Ask children text-based questions and encourage them to cite evidence in their responses Push … 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
ELA Text Exemplars
North Carolina has put together the following document that links ELA text exemplars, listed in Appendix B, to their full text on the Internet (here). Note, however, that the suggested texts are not a reading list. Instead they serve as … Continue reading
NCTQ and the BAP
The National Council on Teacher Quality posted on the Basal Alignment Project this week. Rob Rickenbrode, writing for the NCTQ describes, the BAP as an “innovative and elegant workaround to the problem” of having basal materials not aligned to the CCSS. … Continue reading
Core Task Project 