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Iowa Core ELA Standards. How will things look different to administrators?. Creating change. “Real change is brought about by gentle pressure relentlessly Applied.". Don’t start by looking at each “tree” (each standard)…. Look at the BIG picture—the whole forest. ELA: 3 Big Shifts.
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Iowa CoreELA Standards How will things look different to administrators?
Creating change “Real change is brought about by gentle pressure relentlessly Applied."
Don’t start by looking at each “tree” (each standard)…
ELA: 3 Big Shifts • Building cultural, content and vocabulary knowledge through content-rich, fiction, nonfiction and informational texts. • Reading, writing, speaking and listening grounded in evidence from text. • Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary.
Writing Lessons … define argument not as “wrangling” but as “a serious and focused conversation among people who are intensely interested in getting to the bottom of things cooperatively”.
ELA: 3 Big Shifts • Building cultural, content and vocabulary knowledge through content-rich, fiction, nonfiction and informational texts. • Reading, writing, speaking and listening grounded in evidence from text. • Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary.
AEA 267 ELA Iowa Core Contacts • Drinda Williams dwilliams@aea267.k12.ia.us • Barb Shafer • bshafer@aea267.k12.ia.us • Heather Gould • hgould@aea267.k12.ia.us