Pathways to the Common Core : Accelerating Achievement

by Calkins, Lucy; Ehrenworth, Mary; Lehman, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780325043555
• ISBN10: 0325043558
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-29
• Publisher: Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing

Summary

"As challenging as it must have been to write and finesse the adoption of the Common Core State Standards, that accomplishment is nothing compared to the work of teaching in ways that bring all students to these ambitious expectations. The goal is clear. The pathway is not." -Lucy Calkins, Mary Ehrenworth, and Christopher Lehman The Common Core is written, but the plan for implementing the Common Core is not. Lucy Calkins and her colleagues at the Reading and Writing Project have helped thousands of educators design their own pathways to the Common Core. Now, with Pathways to the Common Core, they are ready to help you find your way. Designed for teachers, school leaders, and professional learning communities looking to navigate the gap between their current literacy practices and the ideals of the Common Core, Pathways to the Common Core will help you: * understand what the standards say, suggest, and what they don't say; * recognize the guiding principles that underpin the reading and writing standards; * identify how the Common Core's infrastructure supports a spiraling K-12 literacy curriculum; and * scrutinize the context in which the CCSS were written and are being unrolled. In addition to offering an analytical study of the standards, this guide will also help you and your colleagues implement the standards in ways that lift the level of teaching and learning throughout your school. Specifically, it will help you: * become a more critical consumer of the "standards-based" mandates that are flooding your desk; * craft instruction that supports students in reading more complex texts, developing higher level comprehension skills, and writing at the ambitious levels of the CCSS; * develop performance assessments and other tools to propel Common Core reforms; and * create systems of continuous improvement that are transparent, collegial, and accountable. Above all, this book will help you interpret the Common Core as a rallying cry that ignites deep, wide and lasting reforms and, most importantly, accelerates student achievement. Professional learning communities and book clubs save when you order a book study bundle. Get 15 copies of Pathways to the Common Core: Accelerating Achievement for one low price.

Table of Contents

An Introduction to the Common Core State Standards	p. 1
Reading Standards
Overview of the Reading Standards: What Do They Say and What Does This Mean for Us?'	p. 22
Literal Understanding and Text Complexity: Standards 1 and 10	p. 32
Reading Literature: Standards 2-9	p. 52
Reading Informational Texts: Standards 2-9	p. 75
Writing Standards
Overview of the Writing Standards: What Do They Say and What Does This Mean for Us?	p. 102
The CCSS and Composing Narrative Texts	p. 713
The CCSS and Composing Argument Texts	p. 727
The CCSS and Composing Informational Texts	p. 142
Speaking/Listening and Language Standards
Overview of the Speaking and Listening and of the Language Standards: What Do They Say and What Does This Mean for Us?	p. 162
CCSS-Aligned Assessments Fuel Whole-School Reform	p. 180
References	p. 199
Index	p. 203
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