Module 1: Common Core Instruction for ELA & Literacy

1. Module 1:Common Core Instructionfor ELA & Literacy Session 1: Understanding the Organization Audience: K-5 Teachers

2. Expected outcomes • Understand that the College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards • Define cross-disciplinary literacy expectations needed for students to enter college and workforce training programs; • Provide the organizational “backbone” of the grade-specific Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts (ELA) and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, except for the Foundational Skills; • Are organized into four strands with subheadings under each; • Depict an integrated model of literacy. • Understand that grade specific CCSS • Describe what all students should know and be able to do at the end of each grade or grade band.

3. CCSS: The big picture

4. CCR ELA/Literacy strands • College and Career Readiness (CCR) Anchor Standards are divided into four interrelated literacy strands.

5. Subheadings divide the CCR strands. • The CCRs in each literacy strand are grouped into sections by subheadings. For example,

6. Activity: CCRs in Reading • Read through the CCR standards for READING under each subheading. • In groups, discuss how the standards under each subheading are related. How are they distinct from those under other subheadings? • Jot down phrases to describe the relationships or distinctions.

7. Other CCR strands, subheadings • Writing • Text Types and Purposes • Production and Distribution of Writing • Research to Build and Present Knowledge • Range of Writing • Speaking and Listening • Comprehension and Collaboration • Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas • Language • Conventions of Standard English • Knowledge of Language • Vocabulary Acquisition and Use

8. An integrated model of literacy • “Although the Standards are divided into Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language strands for conceptual clarity, the processes of communication are closely connected, as reflected throughout the CCR and CCSS documents.”

9. Activity: An integrated model of literacy • Take a minute to read through the CCR anchor standards of the Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language strands. • In groups, highlight or mark the CCR anchor standards in Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Language that are closely connected to the Reading CCRs.

10. Activity: An integrated model of literacy • What interrelationships did you notice with the Language strand? Others? • Research and media skills are blended into the Standards as a whole. Find examples throughout the strands.

11. Grade-specific Standards • Describe what all students should know and be able to do at the end of each grade or grade band. • Grade level standards at each grade K - 8 • Grade band standards at high school: 9-10 and 11-12 • Using a “back-mapping” design, grade-specific K-12 CCSS translate the aims of the CCR anchor standards into age- and attainment-appropriate terms. • At the K-5 level only, an additional set of Foundational Skills are included in the Reading Standards.

12. ELA/Literacy CCSS Strands

13. CCRs provide a parallel “backbone”Reading strand example

14. Example of “back mapping” design • Reading CCR #5: Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text … relate to each other and the whole. • 9-10.RI.5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text …. • 6-8.H.5: (History/Social Studies) Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally). • 4.RI.5: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. • K.RI.5: Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.

15. K-5 Foundational Skills

16. Activity: Grade-specific standards • Examine the Common Core State Standards at your own grade level • Compare the Reading Literature standards with the Reading Informational Text standards. • Find connections among the Reading standards and those in the other three strands. • How might teachers at your level integrate standards from two or more strands into small units or complex tasks?

17. How did we do? • Decode the alphabet soup. • ELA, RL/RI/RF, CCSS, CCR • How are the CCR and the grade-specific Common Core State Standards related? Different? • Recall the four strands in the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in the content areas. • Briefly explain how one Language standard could be integrated into a reading, writing, or speaking/ listening task.

18. What’s next? “What” & “how” • The Common Core State Standards define what all students are expected to know and be able to do. • The Oregon Literacy Plan addresses in detail how comprehensive reading programs can support student success. • Subsequent sessions will address instructional implications of the CCSS for Oregon teachers and highlight resources in K-12 Teachers: Building Comprehension in the Common Core. • Sneak a peek: “Using an Integrated Model of Literacy” classroom snapshots, p R-39 to R-46 http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/subjects/elarts/reading/literacy/have-you-ever.pdf