EMBEDDING COMMON CORE LITERACY IN SECONDARY CONTENT AREA LESSONS

Deborah Chapman, presenter

Darby Junior High Media Center

June 4, 2013 12:00 – 3:00

PURPOSE OF COMMON CORE

"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 Common Core Reading Standards for Literacy require the explicit instruction in reading strategies across the content areas. The goal of these standards is to develop independent, strategic readers.”

• FROM HTTP://WWW.CORESTANDARDS.ORG/

Use of EvidenceCite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources

Complex TextsRead and comprehend complex texts in appropriate grade level independently and proficiently

Write on discipline-specific contentWrite routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences

THESE STANDARDS SHOULD ALWAYS BE IN PLAY—

IncludesObjectives for

Arkansas SLE Common CoreLanguage

Essential QuestionResources containing COMPLEX TEXTSActivities planned

Always include reading, writing, speaking, and listening

Always include group workAssessments

SAMPLE UNIT LESSON PLAN

FOUR CS OF COMMON CORE UNIT LESSON PLANS

Creativity Are they students creating or just regurgitating? Are they being given credit for presenting something other

than what was described?

Collaboration Have they spent some time working with others to formulate

their thoughts, brainstorm, or seek feedback from peers?

Critical thinking Are the students doing more work than the teacher in seeking

out information and problem solving?

Communication Does the assessment emphasize the need to communicate the

content well? Is there writing involved as well as other modalities? If asked to teach the content to other students, what methods

will the student use to communicate the information and help embed it more deeply?

Explicit teaching of Close ReadingRSVPE

Reading StructureVocabularyPurposeExpressive

Writing & Drawing in the MarginBegin with an easy piece such as a

Content–Appropriate Visual…and lead students to more difficult works.

CLOSE READING

What are Text Dependent Questions?Are questions that can only be answered

correctly by close reading of the text and demand careful attention to the text

Require an understanding that extends beyond recalling facts

Often require students to inferDo not depend on information from outside

sourcesProvide access to increasing levels of complex

textCall for careful and thoughtful teacher

preparationRequire time for students to process

TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS

RIGOR IN CLASS DISCUSSION

Academic Rigor through Student Discussion Purposeful Coherent Productive

Conversational Maxims must be set for students

Sentence Starters Accountable Talk Language of Student Response

Is your Common Core unit lesson planCreative?Collaborative?Require critical thinking?Require students to communicate?

MEANINGFUL CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT

Does the assessment involve project-based learning? Does it allow for student choice of topics? Is it inquiry based? Does it ask that students use some level of internet

literacy to find their answers? Does it involve independent problem solving? Does it incorporate the 4Cs? Do the students need to communicate their

knowledge via writing in some way? Does the final draft or project require other modalities

in its presentation?

Common Core ASSESSMENT CHECKLIST

DISCUSSION AND SHARING

http://www.corestandards.org/ http://naeptba.ets.org/SourceRater3/ http://

www.literacyta.com/common-core-standards/reading

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