+ the common core: getting there globally julia de la torre deborah cunningham
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The Common Core: Getting There Globally
Julia de la TorreDeborah Cunningham
+Primary Source
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Background essay on the topic
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+Common Core OverviewMission Statement
“The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them. The standards are designed to be robust and relevant to the real world, reflecting the knowledge and skills that our young people need for success in college and careers. With American students fully prepared for the future, our communities will be best positioned to compete successfully in the global economy.”
Common Core State Standards Initiative, June 2009http://www.corestandards.org/
+Where Global Enters the Common Core
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
Communication
Information Literacy
Global Awareness
Self-Direction
Information, Media and Technology
Strong Knowledge of Core Subjects
21st Century Global Skills and CCSS Literacy Skills are closely aligned:
P21 Common Core Toolkit: A guide to aligning the CCSS with the Framework for 21st c. skills,http://www.p21.org/images/p21_toolkit_final.pdf
+Why a global approach?
“To become college and career ready, students must grapple with works of exceptional craft and thought whose range extends across genres, cultures, and centuries. Such works offer profound insights into the human condition and serve as models for students’ own thinking and writing…Through wide and deep reading of literature and literary nonfiction of steadily increasing sophistication, students gain a reservoir of literary and cultural knowledge, references, and images; the ability to evaluation intricate arguments; and the capacity to surmount the challenges posed by complex texts.”
(CCSS for ELA Anchor Standards for Reading – A Note on Range and Content of Student Reading)
Global Content is Indicated in the CCSS:
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What types of informational texts are you using to teach about the world?
What types could you use?
+ PARCC’s Definitions – Model Content Framework for ELA (Grade 10)
Literature includes adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, myths, science fiction, realistic fiction, allegories, parodies, satire, drama, graphic novels, one-act and multi-act plays, narrative poems, lyrical poems, free-verse poems, sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics (Common Core State Standards, page 57).
Informational texts/literary nonfiction include the subgenres of exposition, argument and functional text in the form of personal essays; speeches; opinion pieces; essays about art or literature; biographies; memoirs; journalism; and historical, scientific, technical or economic accounts (including digital sources) written for a broad audience (Common Core State Standards, page 57).
+Types of informational texts
Historical accounts Debates
Memoirs TED talks
Oral histories Essays
Blogs Investigative journalism
International newspapers Opinion pieces/ op-eds
International NGO reports Manuals
Speeches/rhetoric A Constitution or other foundational gov’t document
News broadcasts
+Resources for Informational Texts
Nonfiction Resource Guide (Primary Source) http://resources.primarysource.org/nonfiction and other regional guides: http://www.primarysource.org/resourceguides
Primary Source World http://www.primarysource.org/primarysourceworld
World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/en/
Online Newspapers http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
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What texts do you already teach (U.S. or global)--or think you might teach-- that would support student learning of particular reading skills in the CCSS?