LANGUAGE ARTS UPDATEElementary Principals’ Meeting

November 28, 2012

Common Core ShiftsEnglish Language Arts

Shift One

Regular practice with complex text and its academic language

Text Complexity Academic Vocabulary

Shift Two

Reading and writing grounded in evidence from text, literary and informational

Close Reading

Supporting Answers With Evidence From Text

Shift Three

Building knowledge through content rich nonfiction

Level Literary Informational

Elementary 50% 50%

Middle 45% 55%

High 30% 70%

• How have the common core shifts impacted instruction in your building?

• What challenges do you foresee?

What Types of Texts Should Students Be Reading?

• Demonstrate comprehension of a variety of informational, literary, and persuasive texts

• Evaluate how an author uses words to create mental imagery, suggest mood, and set tone

• Engage in a wide range of nonfiction and real-life reading experiences to solve problems, judge the quality of ideas, or complete daily tasks

• Ideas found in a variety of informational texts need to be compared and understood

Colorado Academic Standards

Looking at the sample texts and performance tasks:

• How does this align with the work you see students doing in your classrooms?

• What are some ways you could support your teachers in moving students to this level?

To A Daughter Leaving Home

Book Clubs

I am already using what I learned in this class. The make and take Conferring Notebook was ready to go on Monday morning and we are into Day 3 of two of the ideas I gained at this workshop. Very enjoyable and valuable.

The class was excellent. Shelley Neher and Melissa Fike did an outstanding job of teaching and involving all of us in learning together.

Additional Assessment Resources