Power up for the Common Core with INFOhio!

1. Power up for the Common Core with INFOhio!

2. A full set of tools… …will help you manage the Common Core

3. Where can you find the tools to help educators and students?

4. www.infohio.org

5. IMatrix Facebook ICoaches I On INFOhio Learning Commons eBooks 21 Essential Things Twitter Electronic Resources GO! INFOhio Knowledge Building Community Learning Skills Power Up with INFOhio Discovery Portal We’re not just library automation anymore!

6. Core Collection of Resources

7. INFOhio’s 21st Century Learning Commons • A community bringing inquiry learning strategies and Web 2.0 tools to Ohio K-12. • Professional development opportunities • Learning Skills and instructional strategies • 21 Essential Things for 21st Century Success • INFOhio 21st century skill videos • Knowledge Building Community

8. First, create an account

9. Watch the videos These short videos will give you a nice overview of the resources and some effective ways to use them.

10. Check out the 21 things

11. Let’s look at the tools INFOhio has to help with: • Text Complexity • Literacy • Research • College and Career Readiness • Mathematical Practices

12. Text Complexity and Informational Text

13. Common Core Connection English Language Arts Range of reading and level of text complexity √ Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.

14. What is Text Complexity? Common Core ELA Standards:Appendix A

15. 1. Determine the quantitative measures of the text. Lexiles or ATOS ranges can be used.

16. 2. Analyze the qualitative measures of the text. Evaluate: • Purpose • Structure • Language • Knowledge Barnhart, Marcia. Text Complexity Webinar, May 3, 2012.

17. 3. Reflect upon the reader and task considerations. • Prior knowledge and experience. • Content and theme concerns. • Complexity of associated tasks. • Cognitive capabilities. • Reading Skills. • Motivation and engagement with task and text. Barnhart, Marcia. Text Complexity Webinar, May 3, 2012.

18. 4. Recommend placement in the appropriate text complexity band. Barnhart, Marcia. Text Complexity Webinar, May 3, 2012.

19. Where do we find texts in the appropriate text complexity band? We could…. Choose an excerpt of text from Appendix B: Use available resources to determine the text complexity of other materials on our own. or… Barnhart, Marcia. Text Complexity Webinar, May 3, 2012.

20. Want to learn more? • Watch the webinar by Marcia Barnhart. • Join the KBC and discuss online with other Ohio educators.

21. Learning Commons – Thing #8 Finding resources for all learning levels and styles. Also includes several articles on Lexiles. Using EBSCO databases for lexile level search.

22. Discovery Portal Select Educator’s Guide and search for Text Complexity.

23. These databases include Lexiles for their articles.

24. Ebsco allows searches by Lexile too.

25. Your school’s library catalog can help you find titles. • Click on Reading Level Search. • Select Reading Program for AR or Lexile search. • Enter a score range. • You can enter a subject term or leave it blank to see all titles at that level.

26. Online Catalog displays Lexile or Reading Program in results.

27. The INFOhio eBook Collection contains Lexiles when available.

28. Literacy – across the curriculum

29. Common Core Connection • What are the Literacy Standards? Standards for reading and writing in • Science • Social Studies • History • Other Technical Subjects*

30. Range and content of student reading • To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must read widely and deeply from among a broad range of high-quality, increasingly challenging literary and informational texts. • Through extensive reading of stories, dramas, poems, and myths from diverse cultures and different time periods, students gain literary and cultural knowledge as well as familiarity with various text structures and elements. • By reading texts in history/social studies, science, and other disciplines, students build a foundation of knowledge in these fields that will also give them the background to be better readers in all content areas. • Students can only gain this foundation when the curriculum is intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades. • Students also acquire the habits of reading independently and closely, which are essential to their future success. Common Core State Standards, College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading, p.10

31. To what grade levels do the Literacy Standards apply? Grades 6 - 12 Why not grades K – 5? The Literacy Standards are predicated on the assumption that K-5 teachers already teach reading and writing across content areas. Barnhart, Marcia, INFOhio Common Core ELA and Literacy Standards webinar, 2-12-12.

32. An Integrated Model of Literacy “We acquire knowledge and thinking skills best when we learn them reciprocally, when we are asked to read, write, argue, and problem solve as we engage with text and with an organized body of essential knowledge”  Mike Schmoker Focus: Elevating the Essentials to Radically Improve Student Learning ASCD 2011 Barnhart, Marcia, INFOhio Common Core ELA and Literacy Standards webinar, 2-12-12.

33. Organization of the Literacy Standards Barnhart, Marcia, INFOhio Common Core ELA and Literacy Standards webinar, 2-12-12.

34. Three Big Ideas • Literacy is everyone’s job. 2. Students must read complex texts independently and proficiently in every discipline. 3. Students must write argumentative and explanatory texts in every discipline (process writing and on-demand writing). Barnhart, Marcia, INFOhio Common Core ELA and Literacy Standards webinar, 2-12-12.

35. Want to learn more? • Watch the webinar by Marcia Barnhart. • Join the KBC and discuss online with other Ohio educators.

36. Learning Commons-Check out Things #2 and 4 Reviews EBSCO resources for connections to professional journal articles Good review of all INFOhio resources for content areas

37. Learning Commons-Check out Things # 8, 20 Specific resources for Science, Math and Technology Resources for differentiating instruction

38. IMatrix-imatrix.infohio.org

39. IMatrix—What’s the Grade?

40. IMatrix—What’s the Subject Matter?

41. IMatrix—Dimensions of Inquiry

42. Dimensions of Inquiry

43. IMatrix—Searching IMatrix

44. Imatrix-Two Ways to Search

45. To Search by Block Select: Grade Level, Subject and Dimension of Inquiry.

46. To search by Standard Statement Search by Standard Enter the Standard Code

47. Search Results Use the arrows to see additional pages. Click to Show or Hide Details

48. Details screen Basic standard information Shows Dimensions of Inquiry related to the standard Cross Curricular Connections shows other related standards. Click on code to open links to those standards.

49. More of detail screen Assessment gives resource suggestions for standard assessments. College and Career Anchor Standard Instructional Strategies and Resources including INFOhio Electronic Resources

50. INFOhio Literacy Across the Curriculum Resources