Nancy Gates Chittenango High School

Nancy Gates“Using the Common Core State

Standards to Improve World Language Instruction”

Using The Common Core State Standards

To Improve World Language Instruction

What are the Common Core State Standards?

At your table, please write a short press release describing the CCSS.

What are the Common Core state Standards?

The Common Core State Standards are internationally benchmarked national educational standards designed to set

high expectations aligned with college and career expectations across all content areas.

HOW MANY OF THESE STANDARDS DO YOU ALREADY ADDRESS?

• Writing narratives

• Planning, editing, revising or trying a new approach

• Using technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with other

• Follow the rules for collegial discussions and decision making, pose questions, acknowledge new information expressed by others

• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Hebrew)

• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language

• Determine a central idea of a text

• Choose your MAIN STRAND: WRITING

• W2 Write informative/explanatory texts

• Decide which additional standards you will incorporate

• R3 Read informational texts (sample biographies), analyze how the texts make connections between individuals, ideas or events

• R8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources

• L1 Demonstrate command of standard conventions of language

• L5 Semonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings

• Plan your strategies and instructional activities

CREATE A LESSON PLAN: BIOGRAPHY OF A FAMOUS LATIN AMERICAN

READING

• Grade specific standard (8)

• Citing textual evidence, determining central ideas and development of a text, analyzing and evaluating structure, point of view, purpose, arguments, claims and conflicting information.

WRITING

• Grade specific standard (8)

• Writing either informative/explanatory texts to support claims, arguments to examine a topic or narratives to develop real or imagined experiences. Students are taught to plan, edit, revise and rewrite as well as use technology to produce and publish writing.

SPEAKING AND LISTENING

• Grade specific standard (8)

• Collaborative communication skills. Students determine the purpose and evaluate the evidence found in grade level appropriate topics, texts and issues. Students then present claims and findings using multimedia and visual displays in a variety of contexts with appropriate organization, development and style.

LANGUAGE

• Grade specific standard (8)

• Conventions of standard English grammar, determining or clarifying meaning and understanding figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings. (Including prefixes, suffixes, homophones, synonyms, antonyms, metaphor, simile, irony, puns and using references such as dictionaries.)

CREATE A LESSON PLAN: BIOGRAPHY OF A FAMOUS LATIN AMERICAN

• Choose your MAIN STRAND: WRITING

• W2 Write informative/explanatory texts

• Decide which additional standards you will incorporate

• R3 Read informational texts (sample biographies), analyze how the texts make connections between individuals, ideas or events

• R8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources

• L1 Demonstrate command of standard conventions of language

• L5 Semonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings

• Plan your strategies and instructional activities

RESOURCES

• Engage NY

• Achieve the Core

• Corestandards.org (PDF much nicer than NY’s!)

• Literacy TA (Great templates!)