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Common Core LiteEnglish Language Arts

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Provide an overview of the Common Core English Language Arts State Standards

Conduct this workshop with a process that you can replicate with large or small groups of teachers

Provide you with the materials necessary to get all K-12 teachers ‘dipped’ into the standards

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Statewide Roll-Out

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1. Our focus today is to learn HOW to investigate the Common Core State Standards.

2. You will not investigate all of the standards today. You will be given a process and materials to duplicate today’s process in your school.

3. WI has Early Learning Standards that address expectations for children birth to the beginning of first grade. When developing curriculum and assessment practices for 4K and 5K, the WMELS need to be considered along side the CCSS

1. An open and willing mind

2. The materials at your table

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The CCSS mandates the student learning outcomes for every grade level/grade band.

Students will be tested and instructional effectiveness will be measured based on CCSS (beginning 2015).

Federal funding is tied to CCSS adoption, implementation, and accountability.

ELA and Mathematics CCSS are just the beginning. Science and Social Studies are in the draft stage…more subject area standards are being developed.

CCSS create an opportunity for educators to talk and share knowledge across state lines.

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…the acquisition of the knowledge and skills a student needs to enroll and succeed in credit-bearing, first-year courses at a postsecondary institution (such as a two- or four-year college, trade school, or technical school) without the need for remediation. (ACT)

The standards were built on this vision for every single student who graduates from high school.

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Key Points Jigsaw

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*Grade specific standards*Focus on student learning outcomes*Shared

Responsibility

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Strand

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Informational TextLiterature

The range, quality and complexity of the standards evolve across the curriculum.

Foundational Skills ONLY Grades K-5

• Only Grades K-5 have Foundational Skill Standards

concepts of print, the alphabetic principle, and other basic conventions of the English writing system

not an end in and of themselves but necessary and important components of an effective, comprehensive reading program

instruction should be differentiated: good readers will need much less practice with these concepts than struggling readers

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A Note About Unique Structures…

• English Language Arts for grades K-8 are listed by grade (K, 1, 2 etc.) and 9-12 are in grade bands (9-10, 11-12)

• ELA standards include teachers of History, Social Studies, Science & Technical Subjects

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Informational TextLiterature

READING Standards Standard 1 Standard 2

LiteratureLiterature InformationalInformational Text Text

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Key Ideas and DetailsCraft and StructureIntegration of

Knowledge and IdeasRange of Reading and

Level of Text Complexity

These are called the 4 Categories. Each is broken down further into Anchor Standards.

Key Ideas and Details

Craft and Structure Integration of

Knowledge and IdeasRange of Reading

and Level of Text Complexity

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Pages 10 & 35

Broken down in Each Category to

Grade Level or Band

Specific Standards

Major Organizing Structure

Throughout the Reading

Standards

Categories

Key Ideas and Details

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Pages 10 & 35

Activity # 2

Category

1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specifictextual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supportingdetails and ideas.3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Anchor Standards

Key Ideas and Details

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Pages 10 & 35

Each Category

1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9-10 11-12

Breaks intoAnchor

Standards

That Contain Specific Grade- Level Standards Specific end-of-year expectations, a cumulative progression of knowledge and skill

Subject –Cul de sac

Strands-Houses

Category- Rooms

Anchor standardsShelf

Grade Level Standards -Baskets on each shelf

CCR Standards-levels in the house

Common Core Lite

Student Application

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K-5

6-12

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Text Types & Purposes

Production & Distribution of Writing

Research to Build & Present Knowledge

Range of Writing

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Specific Standards are

Provided in Each Category by

Grade Level/Band

Major Organizing Structure

Throughout the Writing

Standards

Categories

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Comprehension and Collaboration

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

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Specific Standards are

Provided in Each Category by

Grade Level/Band

Major Organizing Structure

Throughout the Speaking and

Listening Standards

Categories

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Conventions of Standard English

Knowledge of Language

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

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Specific Standards are

Provided in Each Category by

Grade Level/Band

Major Organizing Structure

Throughout the Language Standards

Categories

So how will you use this in your school or district?

PowerPointActivities 1 & 2Unwinding the Spiral

activity

Takeaways Available at:

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(Today’s slides and materials were adapted from Investigating the Standards, ©2010 Wisconsin Cooperative Educational Service Agencies (CESAs) School Improvement Services statewide roll-out initiative)

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Billie Finco

Julie Jensen

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Nicki Pope

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