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Shifts Happen. Diving into the Shifts of Common Core. Warm-Up. 8 th Grade Reading Scores. In this session, you will learn how the Common Core State Standards prepare students to be college and career ready by examining one of the shifts more in-depth. 3 Shifts 0r 6 Shifts?. Mean. Meet.
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Shifts Happen Diving into the Shifts of Common Core
In this session, you will learn how the Common Core State Standards prepare students to be college and career ready by examining one of the shifts more in-depth.
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Text-Dependent Questions • Questions in assessments and classroom discussion should require students to gather evidence from the text, including paired passages, and not rely on personal experiences. • Give students the opportunity to argue their beliefs around complex texts. In “Casey at the Bat,” Casey strikes out. Describe a time when you failed at something.
“Bringing the Common Core to Life" David Coleman · Founder, Student Achievement Partners Chancellors Hall · State Education Building · Albany, NY April 28, 2011 2010 Study
Students will read and understand grade-level complex text independently and proficiently and express that understanding clearly through writing and speaking about text.
Text-Dependent Questions • Questions that can only be answered with evidence from the text • Can be literal but can also involve analysis, synthesis, evaluation • Focus on specific words, sentences and/or paragraphs as well as larger ideas, themes or events
Text-Dependent Questions What makes Casey’s experiences at bat humorous? What can you infer from King’s letter about the letter that he received? • In “Casey at the Bat,” Casey strikes out. Describe a time when you failed at something. • In “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. King discusses nonviolent protest. Discuss, in writing, a time when you wanted to fight against something that you felt was unfair.
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In this session, you learned how the Common Core State Standards prepare students to be college and career ready by examining Text-Dependent Questions and Text-Based Answers.